Renters Right Bill
An overview of the proposed Renters Rights Bill which is currently at time of issue(17th Feb 2025) at the Committee Stage in the House of Lords:
This is designed to stop no fault evictions (Section 21), level out rights between landlords and tenants, introduce a private rented sector(PRS) ombudsman and database, improve housing standards and apply Awaab’s law, to eliminate as much as possible discrimination against people with children and/or in receipt of benefits.
Tenants will be able to give 2 months notice from the date the tenancy started at any time(instead of 1 months notice from the last month of your fixed term period) and in most cases a landlord under mandatory grounds has to give 4 months notice to reclaim the property(this is currently 2 months for any reason via a Section 21 notice).
All increases in rent which can be issued annually up to market rate will have to be issued via a Section 13 notice. The bill in its current format favours both tenants and landlords in certain scenarios.
If a tenant is carrying out severe anti-social or criminal behaviour then a landlord can begin proceeding immediately to regain possession of the property. Also if a tenant falls 3 months or 13 weeks in arrears then a landlord can apply to the court within 4 weeks to reclaim possession.
There are obviously more items to add to the bill but the link for the bill in its entirety is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-the-renters-rights-bill/82ffc7fb-64b0-4af5-a72e-c24701a5f12a#:~:text=The%20Renters'%20Rights%20Bill%20will,increases%20without%20fear%20of%20eviction.
Further details can be found here on the current progress of the bill:
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3764
