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Mandatory register and redress for landlords to be revealed this week

A radical shake up of the private rental sector is expected to be announced tomorrow by Housing Secretary Michael Gove.

The main part of tomorrow’s announcement is expected to be a national landlord register in England

The Times has been informed that Gove will describe the register as one of the elements in a package of measures aiming to halve the number of poor quality rental homes by 2030.

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Another element may be some form of compulsory redress membership for landlords.

The leak to the newspaper suggests that landlords would be made responsible for improving the physical conditions of an estimated 1.1m rental properties that - according to the latest English Housing Survey - do not yet meet the ‘decent homes standard’ set out by government.

This could include legislation requiring landlords to improve energy efficiency in some 800,000 properties considered to fail 'safe, warm and in a good state of repair' criteria.

 

 

Pressure group Generation Rent, which has been calling for a mandatory national register for some years, has told its supporters: “This is a vital step in raising standards in private rented homes. We must keep pushing to ensure this register is as good for renters as possible.”

You can see The Times story here, but for some readers it may be behind a paywall. 

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    So every landlord now has to spend more money to become a member of a redress scheme and they wonder why so many are selling up and leaving the PRS. If the landlord has a good agent then this should not be necessary and this is where the breakdown lies, a few landlords think they can do the letting themselves without knowing the full legislation requirements and legalities. The majority of landlords do instruct agents as their point of contact and these agents should be regulated by an appropriate redress scheme, it is the age old story of the minority of incompetent landlords/agents ruining the PRS for the majority.

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    No quite Tracy LL's will pay money to become a member of a redress scheme but tenants will ultimately be paying more. Well done. Will GR take the credit for this?

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    By 2030 they will remove half of the rental property.? It says here. When are they going to take on the responsibility of building affordable decent housing? Without private landlords and the section 21 where exactly would people be housed? Excuse my ignorance but I have this naive notion that when a person takes on a property, it is already of a standard because they took it on. Only after the children and the dogs have wrecked the place (anecdotally) is there a call for standards. Where does the tenant fit in to keep the property at least in as good a repair as it was when they first took it on?

  • Theodor Cable

    I'd like to know about that too?

  • Roger  Mellie

    I do not believe there are enough of these slum landlords out there to warrant a register. But what do I know >shrugs shoulders emoji

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    May we have a register of rogue tenants too, just for balance and fairness? If not, why not?

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