Cut the jargon! Here’s Your guide to the Renters (reform) Bill in 9 bullet points!
There's pages of information on the Renters (reform) Bill, but you just want the headlines right?! Get yourself up to speed in less than 5 minutes …
The bill is part of the Governments strategy to provide tenants with safer, fairer and higher quality homes but also to make it easier for Landlords to gain possession of where there’s anti-social behaviour or where the tenant fails to pay the rent.
The headlines:
- Section 21 notices to end a tenancy will be abolished.
- There will be new grounds to end a tenancy where the landlord needs to sell or where the property is required for themselves or their families.
- There will be a reformed court process.
- The government will look to apply decent home standards to the private rental sector for the first time (currently these standards apply to social housing only)
- All Landlords (whether they use an agent or not) will be required to join a new Ombudsman scheme which will help resolve any disputes between a Landlord and Tenant.
- A new digital platform will be created to help Landlords understand their legal obligations and to help tenants make an informed decision when entering into a tenancy agreement.
- All tenants will have a legal right to request a pet, which the landlord should not unreasonably refuse. The landlord has the right to request pet insurance to cover any damages caused by the pet.
- It will be illegal for Landlords or agents to have a blanket ban on tenants in receipt of housing benefit.
- It will be illegal for Landlords or agents to have a blanket ban on tenants with children.
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