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“Hammer blow” to private rental sector as six months notice is permanent

A new law in Wales making it mandatory for a tenant to get six months notice for Section 21 evictions has been described as a “hammer blow” by the Association of Residential Letting Agents.

On top of that, from April 2022 - when the new law takes effect - no tenant will be able to be served a notice under S21 until they have been in situ for six months.

The new eviction rules are complemented by simplified rental contracts to be introduced next year in Wales; landlords will still be able to repossess their property if a tenant is in breach of contract.

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Welsh Government housing and local government minister Julie James says the end result will be fairer, simpler and more efficient. 

Angela Davey, ARLA Propertymark president, says: “The Welsh Parliament’s approval of the Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Bill will introduce significant changes to the way the private rented sector operates in Wales. Collectively, having one standardised legal framework is going to enable everyone to operate in exactly the same way, giving clarity on rights and responsibilities through standard written contracts.

“While in some cases these changes will provide more financial security for landlords, it also means it will take landlords 12 months to reclaim their property in the case of ‘no fault evictions’ which is a hammer blow to the sector. We call on the Welsh Government to now stick to its commitment for at least a six-month lead time, or longer, in light of Covid to allow agents and their landlords in Wales to prepare for the upcoming changes.”

Julie James adds: “Thanks to our efforts, tenants will have greater peace of mind when renting. Everyone has the right to feel secure in their own home and to be able to plan for the future. Clearer and easier to understand contracts will reduce disputes and legal costs and the new regime will provide a better way for landlords to deal with abandoned properties.”

  • Don Holmes

    Institutional and private investment in the PRS just left Wales!

  • Patrick  Rodgers

    Yeah your so right no decent landlord is not going to be treated in this way the government are walking around with there head up there a#s

  • James B

    I would hate to see what that tenancy agreement looks like if it is written for governments on behalf of tenants! Let’s watch homeless increase in Wales

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    so who is going to house those tenants when the landlords leave the PRS?

    Matthew Payne

    There are 27,000 empty properties in Wales. Perhaps they also plan to seize these as a donation towards the emerging Welsh communist state for all its homeless comrades.

     
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    • 25 February 2021 09:21 AM

    So, these morons get free use of my houses for 6 months? The can then go rent another house and do the same thing again?
    Thank GOD I don't live in Wales!!!!!!!

    It is less a legal issue rather than sponsored theft.

    BAS**RDS

    Matthew Payne

    England will be next. How else can the government stop the section 21 tsunami wiping out 800,000 tenants in arrears that is being held behind its eviction ban?

     
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    So all tenancies will last for at least a year. Any landlord with an empty property in the Socialist Republic of Wales would be advised to sell now ahead of the rush.

  • James B

    Guarantors are the future no longer can we rely on the security of just a tenant

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