Well This Is A Good Way To Kill The Rental Market!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66116194
...I got out years ago but this is the final straw.

[youngmafbog]

//UK Housing Secretary Michael Gove said a joint approach would "send a clear message to providers".//

It certainly will Gove you plonker - Sell sell sell.

We had 10 at one point, did try DHSS but got shafted so never again.

[ToraToraTora]

Makes me laugh, they say there is a dearth of rental properties then do something like this that will kill it stone dead! madness! Coupled with the fact many landlords will be selling anyway because property is about to crash it's doubly stupid!

[Old_Geezer]

Can't really understand people being in the market already. Maybe the property prices keep them from selling. Maybe the ones left are those who can't be bothered with their tenants' woes.

[jourdain2]

A psychiatric nurse (who has her own health problems) in our village has been ordered to leave her rented house by August. She has 2 dogs, has lived here for years, is a good tenant. She is now desperate to find somewhere to live. Her rented house has already been sold.
The landlord says he's very sorry about it, but he can no longer trust the rental market. It is no longer profitable and the power to evict a bad tenant looks like being withdrawn.
Someone has told me about another local person who is in the same case.
Mr. Gove has a lot to answer for. How can he not understand how counterproductive his proposed measures are?

[ToraToraTora]

Jourdain, yes they are about to make it almost impossible to get someone out and also force landlords to rent to people who will never pay the rent. Game over. The property market will tank as thousands of properties come onto the the market.....

[Gizmonster]

The thing is, how are they going to enforce it??
Let's say 10 people apply for a house that's come up for rent. The landlord sifts through the applicants and chooses who they want. If anyone complains that the landlord didn't select them because they had kids, etc .... the landlord just says that they missed out because the selected applicant was more "suitable". Depends on how you interpret "suitable" ????

[wolf63]

When I moved to this flat in April I was going to rent my other flat out. But after looking into the subject it just seemed so much simpler to sell the place. So I did.

[maggiebee]

I was left a two roomed semi-detached when my dad died. Tried the rental market, but it was a nightmare so sold in the end.

[ToraToraTora]

maggie, letting is a nightmare and getting worse.

[douglas9401]

If only there were organisations, let's call them 'councils', that had a massive stock of purpose-built housing available for rent by anyone and a full backup service to maintain and repair that stock.
They could replace profiteering spivs with a 'portfolio' and level the playing field for all.

Oh well, a man can dream.

[woofgang]

I think what drove the first nail into the DSS rental coffin was when payment direct to the landlord was stopped even when the renter wanted it. There was a legal bod on breakfast the other morning and she said that the new rules won't bite while there are more renters than places, so if landlords do sell out that will just make things worse for renters with children or pets.

[Peter Pedant]

a lot of these extra costs are passed onto the tenant

and it is all in the detail - if a tenant gets £500 a month, benefit and the rent is £800, it seems obvious that it is no because they cant pay rather than they are DHSS

[Peter Pedant]

rents - do you realise that the monfly rent around Waterloo, where I bought a dwelling unit in 1999, is £2000 /m.
Assigned to a relative ( yes I did pay CGT on assignment, in case anyone worries) and he sold it.... ho hum
some people can do it