News and Updates
in the Property Industry

Updates to
Buy to Let Legislation

 

New Safety Rules

 

From 1st of October 2022, all properties are required to have CO2 detector fitted in every room that is used partly or wholly as living accommodation, and which contains any appliance which burns, or is capable of burning fuel.

• All rented properties in England must provide a CO2 alarm in rooms where there is any fixed combustion appliance from 1 October 2022

• All private and social housing landlords must ensure a smoke alarm is fitted on every floor of their property

• Once an alarm is reported not working, it must be repaired or replaced by the landlord as soon as possible

• Landlords are advised to begin installing and repairing existing alarms to avoid breaching new regulations

• From 1st of October 2022, when a tenant, or tenant's nominated representative, finds and reports that an alarm may not work properly, the alarm must be repaired or replaced by the landlord as soon as possible

Repossession Notice Legislation

 

Landlords in England will be banned from evicting tenants
without giving a reason, Prime Minister Liz Truss has confirmed 

 

The Renters Reform Bill will also end blanket bans on benefit claimants or families with children - and landlords must consider requests to allow pets.

 

Housing charity Shelter called it a "game-changer".

But landlords associations said the government must ensure the changes would not worsen the housing crisis.

 

Of all the private renters leaving accommodation in 2019 and 2020, 8% had been asked to go by their landlord, the Department for Levelling up said.

• No-fault evictions are already banned in Scotland for tenancies starting after 1 December 2017

• The Welsh government says no-fault-eviction notice periods will be extended to six months by the end of 2022

• Legislation to extend the notice period for tenancies is going through the Northern Ireland Assembly