BREAKING NEWS - IMPLEMENTATION DATES FOR RENTERS’ RIGHTS ACT 2025 ANNOUNCED
One of the most pressing questions since the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent has been when will the legislation be implemented. Finally the government have announced that key elements of the ACT will be introduced as follows:-
New investigatory powers giving local councils a stronger ability to inspect properties, demand documents, and access third-party data to crack down on rogue landlords and enforce housing standards more effectively will come into effect on 27 December 2025.
Government guidance has been issued twice in a very short space of time and we should be mindful that local authorities will have the power to investigate whether a landlord or an agent letting out private rented housing has broken certain laws.
Preparing for the Renters’ Rights Act 2025
Now that the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (RRA 2025) has been granted Royal Assent, the landscape of the private rented sector in England will change significantly. The RRA 2025 will introduce reforms that will alter the foundations of how tenancies are created, managed and ended, moving away from fixed-term assured shorthold tenancies and relying on a section 21 notice to bring a tenancy to an end, towards assured periodic tenancies, statutory processes for increasing rent, to the new version of the section 8 notice.
Strategic Planning and The Renters’ Rights Bill
What a wonderful week. Mondays and Fridays are always admin days unless we need to train clients in-house.
This week we’ve been in London in person and on-line delivering our Strategic Planning Training for the Renters’ Rights Bill.
The difference between this course and other courses we’ve developed is that the Strategic Planning focuses on the practical implementation of the legislation. The training is Solution Focused which translates into ‘let’s put a plan together’ and set out what needs to be done.
Important News - Renters Rights Bill presented in Parliament
Here we go. The government are standing by their word and will push this Bill through as promised relatively quickly.
The Renters Rights Bill was ‘presented’ in Parliament today - no fanfare, just confirmation that the Second Reading will take place tomorrow, 12th September 2024.
The Bill
So what’s included in the Bill. New laws will ban unfair “no-fault evictions” , there will be an end to bad practices, such as bidding wars to drive up rents, and unreasonable mid-tenancy rent increases.
According to the government, more than 11 million people in England live day in, day out with the knowledge that they could be uprooted from their home with little notice and no justification. This is not in fact the case as the majority of landlords (and letting agents) work well with tenants entering into discussion prior to the tenancy coming to an end, following formal processes and procedures to navigate renewal of tenancy or brining the tenancy to an end.