Labour pledges ‘indefinite tenancies’ for private...

Fed Up Landlord
11 March 2019 08:07 AM

If he thinks the housing market is broken now wait until the full effects of Section 24, additional regulation, and the Tenant Fee Ban kick in where landlords are forced to sell up ( as they are doing now) because their properties are no longer financially viable. Indefinite tenancies with break clauses for tenants and not for landlords will mean more landlords WILL sell. Well done Jeremy Corbyn, Shelter and Generation Rent. Look forward to less and less choice and higher rents.

Patrick David
11 March 2019 09:59 AM

Well done also to the tories for ending austerity, oh wait that still exists...

Simon Shinerock
11 March 2019 08:23 AM

Germany has big corporate landlords, much of the rental stock was built specifically to let. What Labour is suggesting would end the PRS as we know it and result in misery for millions, tenants and Landlords alike. If they gain power and this policy is on the agenda there will be a stampede of landlords heading for the exit, it will be a bloodbath

Emma Hamilton
11 March 2019 08:33 AM

Whatever next???

Brendan Kay
11 March 2019 08:39 AM

Right - so they've banned fees to tenants to reduce costs etc but I see they've conevniently completely ignored the fact that in Germany tenants are required to provide their own kitchen - rather a greater barrier on moving and associated costs don't you think?!

S l
11 March 2019 14:11 PM

the governing party are picking and choosing what nots to add pressure to the prs just because it is private. i recently found out that the council would pressurise and impose higher council tax on owners who are found to have rented properties in the same area and charge their own tax to the max eg no single person exemption and put onus of proof on owner themselves, what a joke. they obviously knew it should be on them , not the occupier to prove . secondly they would impose 150 percent council tax on empty property which are not empty and refused to allow normal 100 percent council tax or student exemptions despite having students trying to register as we landlords are on direct debit to pay the council tax

James B
11 March 2019 08:51 AM

More Desperate vote campaigning stuff
Labour must think this will win some votes as they got currently zero chance of winning an election, clueless
Sadly it’s a downward spiral for landlords as the Tories will read this and know they need to do something similar to keep generation rent votes

Patrick David
11 March 2019 09:58 AM

I think the conservative's incompetence and lack of understanding of the real world is what will win labour votes rather than this.

Alex Docherty
11 March 2019 09:17 AM

What a chinless wonder this Healey is...It's the same old stuff - 'rogue' landlords and 'good tenants.

He wants to get out there and find out how many good landlords and rogue tenants there are.

Oblivious to the facts - just wants the votes! Are there any honest and true politicians anywhere that we could admire and respect?

James B
11 March 2019 21:20 PM

Nope

Kristjan Byfield
11 March 2019 10:25 AM

As always- governments continued failings at social housing blamed on landlords and agents to distract from that. Intent on breaking a system that does work just fine.

Richie Edwards
11 March 2019 11:45 AM

Spoke to local Labour MP recently, she is on the select committee for housing. Hadn't a clue about the property market at all. She mentioned the German system of rent but didn't know how it worked. I enlightened her rent capping in Berlin (10% increase per year in 2 out of 3 years), properties being totally unfurnished, kitchen, bathrooms, carpets curtains etc, security deposits are much higher than in the UK. A great system but tenants have to commit alot financially to get the benefits of the longer tenancies. Clueless Labour.

James B
11 March 2019 21:23 PM

They too busy trying to tell tenants what they want to hear for the votes, rather than learn or try understand the market and what will improve it

Michael English
12 March 2019 10:19 AM

Having rented privately in Germany 35+ years ago there was good and bad in their system. Amongst the restrictions imposed on tenants, apart from always having to fit out your own kitchen and sometimes having to fit out the bathrooms common demands on tenants included the requirement to redecorate the property every few years (and have it inspected). Sometimes the tenant was responsible for repairs to major equipment such as the central heating system. The leases were strange, I needed a place for a year, the agent offered me the option of taking over an 8 year lease from the current tenant who had been there for 3 years and needed to go. Even with my poor German I could see that I was being asked to sign up for 5 years but I did explain I wanted 12 months. Agent said don't worry we will advertise after 10 months and someone else will take over the last 4 years ..... well it didn't work out like that! Their system, good as it is, is far from perfect and my experience of breaking an 8 year lease into smaller chunks like this makes a nonsense of long leases too.