The government says its new housing legislation will be good for tenants. Existing tenants get greater security of tenure, can carry on living there after the expiry of a limited term lease and can delay or prevent a rent rise on review. Landlords will need to look after their properties better. So what’s not to like?
The problem is this legislation will lead many landlords to withdraw their properties from the market. All countries that have tried rent controls have cut the supply of rented accommodation, driving prices up for new space. People who are looking for a rented home get less choice and higher prices.
If government says a limited period lease is no longer enforceable many potential landlords who want to let for a specified period will not take the risk.
The rapid growth of private rented accommodation since the legislative changes of 1988 has been crucial to providing many more homes in the last 37 years. Reversing this will be damaging. Reversing it without cutting the level of inward migration is particularly damaging.
The government is miles off hitting its new housebuilding targets, with new home sales falling. The position is so dire in London with practically no new homes being built that the government has announced temporary suspension of the high social housing requirement, the high taxes or CIL payments and the fierce rules of the Building Regulator. They are also giving London £12 bn to help build more social homes, money taxpayers cannot afford, to offset the big costs and damage done by their regulations.
What a mess. Government needs to stop interfering so much.Their laws mean fewer homes and dearer rents.
October 29, 2025
Good morning.
They want to kill private renting so large, usually US, companies can corner the market much like they will with farm land.
October 29, 2025
+1. All correct in the piece, all predictable result, correct reasoning. They are corporatist fascists. Like Mussolini and Franco they want to rule absolutely over society, with a fusion of corporations and the state holding all power. Add in AI, digital ID control of the media and the rest, and the fascists have the last laugh. If there’s a WW3 it will be fought to defend them, not us!
October 29, 2025
Wanderer
Can’t argue with any of what you write!
October 29, 2025
Correct Mark. Almost all newbuilds are being snapped up by US corporations which will have a monopoly on the rental market.
Governments of all stripes hate the private landlords. We rented two properties but after mortgage relief was cancelled and various tax changes we sold up.
I see Milibrain has agreed a strike price of £113 for offshore windmills, £92 for onshore and a ruinous £273 for floating windmills. This for a 20 tear period. This will ensure we continue to pay the highest prices in the world for our power.
Incidentally these new gas turbines the government wants installed, maybe the government should be informed that there is a seven year waiting list.
October 29, 2025
They are not snapping enough. More unsold new builds than ever before. Several have deal breaker air source heat pumps etc.
October 29, 2025
@Mark B – sorry in this instance I believe you are wrong. The only objective for a Marxist State is for the Politburo to be the master and controllers.
@Wanderer is closer to the ‘Great Plan’
October 29, 2025
The private renting issue is increasingly important as purchasing a property becomes more costly.
A typical age poster on here will not usually have direct experience of this as property used to be a more affordable multiple of annual income.
There are others who see renting as desirable to encourage mobility of the workforce. Germany is often held up as a model.
Other build to rent properties in the UK also include utility bills. This is more like a hotel arrangement than a property deal and may well work to the advantage of the property owner, usually a large corporation.
So lots of factors squeezing every last drop out of the rental sector.
October 29, 2025
@Peter – Our Parliament the supporters of this Marxist State, is against private ownership whether it serves a purpose or not. Its whole philosophy is that the Politburo can run things better if they are the owners and all the minions stay beholden to them.
So what ever the wider population is in a position to offer is irrelevant, government policies do what they can to deter them.
October 29, 2025
Well that’s how they destroyed the High Street.
Tenants can remain after the lease expires. They wait for a disaster (a big chain collapse etc) so that the market rent is reduced and renegotiate the new lease on that basis at that time.
While there is no lease, but the property is occupied, the landlord can’t sell or raise money on the property. Effectively the tenant has all the authority and the landlord all the responsibility.
As the rents are artificially reduced, so is the value of the property and that is destruction of capital which is the ultimate Marxist dream.
The government does not want investment in this country.
They want a poor country so that poor people can occupy it.
They want a country too poor to defend itself.
They see other such countries, in Africa for instance, have a very rich political class.
They should note that those rich politicians in poor countries are also a very frightened class.
October 29, 2025
I can see your African comparison as I’ve thought it while reading a Paul Theroux (pompous man, but great travel writer) book on his time in Angola. This was back in the early 2000’s and I’m not up to date with current events there.
It has seemed to me for some time that we are being steered to decline, particularly in keeping us short of our own skilled people and an education system a shadow of its former self.
Angola, rich in oil, and yet the money circulates only in the top political tiers, their families and hangers on, and to foreign companies and workers who go there. No attempt to train or employ the Angolan people. Various bodies raking in huge sums for so called expertise, see our Quango class!!
Meanwhile the Angolan people become more disenfranchised and the upper levels become more distant from them as they fear the brooding anger.
October 29, 2025
Yes Michelle, I well remember Michael Palin in Africa visiting a Polo Club out in the country (in Nigeria I think). He reached it via a really dreadful road full of deep muddy pits, which even the 4x4s struggled with. He finally arrived to find a gated community worthy of Donald Trump. He later enquired of one of the Nigerian ‘members’ why the roads to the site were so bad. The guy laughed and said it really wasn’t a problem in practice – as “everyone” flew in by helicopter (except the local staff of course).
October 29, 2025
Morning Sir John,
My more cynical side wonders if it’s a cunning plan by the Gangster State to drive people, who have done the right thing, out of their homes just so the state can take them over and put the small boats people into them. Multiple new HMOs in every town, but at least that would be one promise this dispised government would have kept, to empty the immigrant hotels by 2029.
October 29, 2025
Yet more reasons to sell up and leave the UK tax levels, crime levels, property values declining, interest rates rising…
October 29, 2025
Allison Pearson today in the Telegraph.
“Sarah Pochin is being hounded by the same people who turned a blind eye to the grooming-gang scandal
The Reform MP’s remarks about TV adverts lacked tact, but she was pointing out facts that are staring all of us in the face.” Correct and many councils and large cities are being run by such dire people.
Is partially quoting people and taking things out of context not a form of libel? Saying Gove said “we have had enough of experts” when he did not really say this for example.
October 29, 2025
Not rising much for bank deposit though, just for borrowers as bank margins have risen hugely!
October 29, 2025
That’s highly likely to be some of the reasoning. Call me cynical, but it should be clear to everyone now that the continuation of the fighting age men arriving is not something out of government control, but something very much to their liking.
It is laughable and monstrous to suggest an allegedly sovereign nation cannot put an end to this for the sake of its own people’s safety.
There is also the marxist element to ending private rentals.
As with everything, the more they control it then the more they control the people.
October 29, 2025
Every time somebody is harmed or murdered by anyone who has been given asylum, or is awaiting such status, the government should be joined as an accomplice.
I remember the demand to give asylum on the basis that ‘if even one life is spared’ it was worth it.
Surely if ‘even one British life is lost’ it’s NOT worth it.
October 29, 2025
They will reclassify the hotels as HMOs.
October 29, 2025
@Cliff.. Wokingham. – out of the Country more like. Non-compliant individuals not beholden to the State are hated and need to be ejected.
October 29, 2025
Landlords will continue renting out their properties – it’s too lucrative. Starting with Osbourne, landlords have been taxed, stamp dutied, allowed to evict tenants for no cause, get out of having to insulate their properties, hide ownership behind offshore companies etc etc
Many think the pendulum should swing back the other way. Tenants form a very large voting block. Labour clearly wishes to tap into this demographic
October 29, 2025
Residential letting is a loss maker. That’s why people try ‘holiday letting’ instead.
Owning an HMO let to the government is lucrative.
October 29, 2025
Do the maths Mr Gold. it is rarely lucrative at all even if the tenant pays the rents, does not wreck the place and leaves when asked too. Loads of taxes 3% extra stamp duty, income tax, CGT without indexation, loads of red tape, legal costs, agents fees, maint, new insulation rules, insurance… Best to sell up and invest elsewhere. Plus many property values are falling too – esp. those in London.
October 29, 2025
SG
Rents to a degree are also kept high with huge Benefit payments made for rent, which encourages Benefit dependance, why work harder, longer or accept promotion/wage increases, if you are going to lose it !
Many people who know the Benefit system well, appear to be able to live virtually rent free, because of such payments.
October 29, 2025
“allowed to evict tenants for no cause”? The cause Sakara is that the tenancy agreement has expired, they are late with rent perhaps and perhaps the owners want to sell their property, use it themselves or do building work, or the tenants are a pain or cannot afford to pay the market rent.
The tenants do no own it they never bought it they rented it.
You either rent a home or you rent the cash to buy a home unless borne with a silver spoon in you mouth!
Car and other rental companies want their cars back too at the end of the rental period.
October 29, 2025
Have you paid attention to the rising cost of renting in this country? Too many on housing benefit who don’t care what they pay and too much demand has meant that rents have risen much faster than interest rates.
Their is a balance between making money and providing a service that good landlords have to achieve. This legislation tips the balance too far in favour of tenants. (And I am a tenant).
October 29, 2025
Landlords should be freer to offer what they want to whomever they want so long as renters are protected from dangers and rogues. The problem is excessive demand for housing from overpopulation. Labour force complications instead of allowing the market to function efficiently.
Margaret Thatcher regarded the Right to Buy scheme as enabling people who had loyally paid their home’s rent for many years to own it. Those doing so did not add to housing shortage. Overpopulation caused that.
Labour now intends to use ex-military accommodation to house illegal migrants. The capacity of the Training Camp at Crowborough and Cameron Barracks at Inverness can accommodate up to 900 adult males. At an average of 120+ arriving every day, that will deal with just one week. Every day the population increases more.
October 29, 2025
Incidentally Mr Gold, did you see that Bill Gates has said that ‘Climate change is not the end of the world’ – 😂🤣 the whole point of this psychological operation against the people of the west was that Climate Change WAS the end of the world!
These globalists are in big trouble. Chickens coming home to roost on all sides.
They have deindustrialised for nothing, wasted hundreds of billions destroying the platforms which gave them power. Stupid is such an inadequate word.
They have withdrawn the Covid 19 shots. The Millennials are the sickest generation, most took the shot.
And Russia has a ballistic missile powered by a mini-nuclear engine deployed in their arsenal, which is invisible and can ‘loiter’ anywhere on earth for months.
Amazing for such a backward, poor, stupid nation – and achieved at the same time as beating NATO in Ukraine.
At the same time Britons are beset by barbaric people wielding knives from Uxbridge to Derby.
October 29, 2025
“They are also giving London £12 bn to help build more social homes”
Well, somehow they’ve got to provide social housing for immigrants, including the criminal migrants they’re shipping in as fast as they can and are slowly moving out of hotel accommodation.
Why the war on Landlords (started by the Not-a-Conservative-Party)?:
1. It will put more houses on the For Sale market, probably at reduced cost, and at least some of which will be bought by ordinary people
2. Banks (Lloyds) will be able to expand their property portfolios
3. There will be fewer “one property” landlords. It’s so much easier for the Government to control large housing providers
4. The Treasury will gain considerable amounts of tax from the selling/buying process (Capital Gains, VAT, possibly Stamp Duty)
The policy will not result in any new housing. But the ownership will change to one which suits the Socialists better and tax will be creamed off the transfer.
October 29, 2025
The ongoing over regulation of the house rental market is yet another example of good intentions resulting in bad outcome.
The number of private landlords rapidly expanded following Gordn Brown’s disastrous withdrawal of tax relief on pension investment interest resulting in the death of the Private Sector pension option for most private companies. Individuals were denied the Pension growth automatically guaranteed to the Public Sector by ironically the tax payer (the Private sector), so they chose to use property rental as a pension income option in stead.
Since that structural change in pension provision, created by government folly, the rental market ballooned and with it house prices.
Now here we are 25 years later, after successive government efforts to control a market they drove into being, we are losing private landlords, forced out by low and no return on investment by government policies, which will leave just state provided rental options.
It does not get much more totalitarian than that……
October 29, 2025
Rod
We have now lost any encouragement to save via Pensions because the unspent fund now forms part of your estate for Inheritance tax, thus 40% tax on death, then another 20% -40% tax when it is eventually drawn down by the survivors. Thus a double tax situation that will decimate most Personal Pensions from 2027.
I note Defined Gold plated Final Salary schemes applicable to Government Departments and the Civil Service not affected by such taxes.
October 29, 2025
Most public sector pensions were reformed in 2015, replacing final salary models with career average revalued earnings (CARE) schemes.
October 29, 2025
a schoolteacher with her husband set out to became buy-to-let landlords. Their strategy was based on house values going up and down but doubling over a period of seven years.
They let their properties at a very low rent, just requiring that the tenants looked after the property. They started very small yet rapidly expanded and built a property portfolio of 500 premises.
They bought from house sellers direct at a low price since paying ‘cash’ with a short and simple transaction involving no chain or estate agent commission. The arrangement worked nicely for them, as well as tenants and home sellers.
October 29, 2025
Such a pity but predictable that so many of our so-called representatives in Parliament are doing what they are doing. Busy running around interfering and virtue signalling. All they need do is simply the opposite of what they are doing and just get out of the way. Just leave landlords and tenants, (and employers and employees) to come to agreements themselves. But of course they won’t stop interfering. So the mess continues until they are unceremoniously voted out at the next general election.
October 29, 2025
New tenants can take their landlord to a tribunal after 6 months to try to get their rent reduced (even though they have agreed to that rent). Tribunals can, based on market rents, then reduce that rent but are not allowed to increase it. So there is no disincentive at all for tenants to take this route. As a result the tribunal system will surely grind to a halt with waiting times of years. However, my point is this – how can tribunals comment on “market” rents when there is no rental market ? They themselves are setting rents and so can set them at any level they want. So it is a self-fulfilling – whatever they say the market rent is then that’s what it will be. And we can guess who will staff these tribunals – enthusiasts for rent controls.
October 29, 2025
Landlords need to get smart about who they take on as tenants. Make sure the tenant can supply adequate references and follow up previous landlords. A tenant who takes his landlord to a tribunal will be black-listed on the grapevine.
Much the same with employees. You can no longer take anyone on on trust.
October 29, 2025
This government aims to eliminate small private landlords and transfer this lucrative market to large corporations, banks, and a few extremely wealthy individuals, such as Tony Blair, ( etc ed). Of course,(some of ed) these groups (may ed) have shell companies in place to ensure they don’t pay UK taxes. The entire setup in the UK is flawed, with the burden of the tax system falling on struggling, hardworking individuals who can’t avoid the draconian penal legislation being implemented by this government. The British people have had enough. Why bother working hard to build up wealth when politicians think they have the right to take it from you? No wonder productivity in this country is plummeting and the wealthy are leaving in droves.
October 29, 2025
Let’s face it the housing system as a whole is a mess.
People used to purchase a HOME for that very reason, to use as a HOME to live in and perhaps bring up a family.
Now we have the Local Authority and Government wanting their share by the charging taxes (Stamp Duty) on Purchase, and on use (Council tax) based upon its value (wealth tax of sorts), not on services provided.
More taxes are levied on any improvements or extensions (VAT).
Services used in the house like Heat, Light, Power, and Water also attract taxes, and or levies of one sort or another.
Insurance of the property also attracts further taxes.
Want to rent out a property at any stage, then tax paid on income.
Due to an ever growing population (too many people) demand exceeds supply, so prices (Rent/Purchase) increase.
Renters can increase the price due not only to demand, but also because there is an ever growing demand because Government (the taxpayer) is subsidising many people by paying a huge percentage of their rent, which keeps rents higher than they should have been with simple market demand.
Thus government interference in many ways has completely distorted the true supply and demand market, by encouraging huge numbers of people to enter the country, and wanting a share of an asset which should just have been simple family home, and not a tax income stream, and a Benefit cost for a Government that wants to micro manage our lives and everything in it, because it thinks it knows better than the people it is supposed to serve !
October 29, 2025
When there is no honest money, making saving impossible, people have to ‘invest’. They can’t afford two properties, so they are forced to live in their investment rather than in a home.
October 29, 2025
Left wingers generally believe that everything can be controlled by legislation so their next move must surely be to legislate that any second or empty properties must be made available to rent.
That is the only measure that will not drastically reduce the number of properties available to rent.
Security of tenure is not a right for tenants and a different means to prevent landlords from ending the lease at the break point just to increase the rent should have been found. Landlords need to be able to evict unpleasant tenants as there are more of these than unpleasant landlords.
October 29, 2025
My daughter-in-law was thinking of buying a small flat locally as both an investment and potentially to give to our Grandson one day, as a first foot on the ladder. A nice idea but I advised against it. Even then the overheads far outweighed the benefits. Far better to invest in equity via an ISA. No bad tenants, no voids, no maintenance, no leveraged debt, no taxes – in other words no hassle!
This government has just further justified that advice. Why would anyone want to be a Landlord if you cannot effectively raise the rent or kick a bad tenant out?
October 29, 2025
they want to kill all private enterprise of all kinds
October 29, 2025
Talk about plucking low-hanging fruit – the Home Office and the police are organising ICE-type raids on the nation’s car washes, pizza delivery firms, fingernail painting and office cleaning companies
Apparently aimed at deterring illegal migration – when everyone knows it’s about showing willingness to be seen as “doing something” – the police are using the major drug bust tactic of the 03:30 am bang on the door to make sure none of their targets can escape
Of course, the only effect this is going to have is that it’s going to cost me more to get the Tesla washed and polished.
Those captured in these raids will be rapidly replaced by the next crop of illegals that get in via the back of lorries crossing the channel.
October 29, 2025
I guess if i owned a Tesla, I wouldn’t really care who washed it either SG (sorry just couldn’t resist!) 🙂
However, I have never (ever) used a car wash for any vehicle that I’ve owned myself and I certainly wouldn’t dream of letting some stranger touch my Alfa with any old bucket and sponge that might come to hand. I’ve always hand washed my ladies with love and care and have been well rewarded with cars that look good and retain their value. I also still get a special thrill every time I climb into the drivers seat and warm up her ICE (y) heart.
October 29, 2025
Ian T
+1
Same here never used a car wash, used to have one in the garage opposite with the big rotating brushes, causing tramlines on the paintwork and occassionally damaging the wing mirrors and aerials.
Hand wash car businesses tend to use pressure washers (not good for the paint) and just hand dry.
October 29, 2025
This government hates private enterprise in all its forms. It does not understand that it is private enterprise which creates the wealth and pays the taxes. They talk about growth, yet every single legislative measure that they introduce is calculated to have the opposite effect. By the time they have finished the country will also be finished.
October 29, 2025
“Why does the government want to kill private renting?” – ‘Simples’ it is not compatible with a Marxist State.
Anything owned by individuals is not compatible with the UK’s Politburo Parliament, renting, farming, schooling and everything else not under direct control of the State is being banned. Its a continuation of Blair, part of the WEF ‘Great Reset’ part of the plan.
The real weird bit, the more we all complain, refer to logic and common sense to understand the reasoning, the more the Politburo knows their plan is working – to them outrage is a badge of their achievements
October 29, 2025
Why does it do any of the other destructive things it has on it’s secret agenda?
If we are looking for some logic behind what HMG does it won’t be easy to find, but if we recognize that their actions are driven by dogma, spite and envy then things become a little clearer.
October 29, 2025
Hold on! It was Gove who started the attack on landlords. As I recall he was a Minister in a Tory government.
Well, when I say Tory that’s what it purported to be. Thankfully it was dumped at the last General Election…to be replaced by exactly the same but a different label.
October 29, 2025
Correct. The withdrawal of upper rate tax relief on BTL mortgages and the onerous EPC requirements were Conservative attacks on small landlords. They were favouring corporate rentals.
A friend sold his flats when the EPC survey estimated the cost to achieve C grade would cost £17k and save the tenant £175 pa.
And for Sakara’s information, a third of landlords in their local society in Sussex are selling up already.
As for the new Ahwaabs law where landlords are immediately to remedy condensation problems, or face huge fines, I have found over 33 years letting that it is tenants over boiling when cooking and drying wet washing inside while not opening windows is always the cause of condensation.
And the £700 that I had to pay to licence a property with £450 pcm rent has resulted in the council losing my gas certificate after 5 months and asking for it again.
As someone pointed out, it’s all to make money for councils because they don’t have to house tenants who don’t pay their rent and, after waiting over a year to be evicted, they have made themselves deliberate homeless and the council will not have to house them.
October 29, 2025
Recent evaluation by the National Audit Office found that a very high proportion of homes given an insulation makeover under the EcoHomes green programme soon started suffering from damp and mould problems. It hasbeen extremely poor value for money, generating cost far in excess of alleged savings, and evidently should be cancelled. Yet many politicians think it a good idea.
Don’t always blame the tenants when there’s a government programme to help wreck housing.
October 30, 2025
The poorly qualified installers of wall insulation put the vapour barrier on the cold section where the high internal vapour condensed. My internal insulation always starts with a vapour barrier and the insulation stays dry.
October 29, 2025
A few years ago following the deaths of my In-laws. My wife, her brother and myself decided to rent out their bungalow. The first tenant was O/K, until he ran out of the money he had as a result of his divorce.
The next tenants managed to wreck the place in less than a year. We were expecting to have to go through the lengthy and expensive process of getting them removed.
Much to our surprise and joy, they suddenly told us they wanted to move out. We agreed, even letting them go mid rental agreement.
After spending quite a sum getting the place habitable again, we sold it.
The point of this tale; If you are contemplating renting out a property, think very carefully. It’s a minefield of cost and worry. Something I would never do again.
It’s not tenants that need more protection, it’s landlords.
October 29, 2025
Landlords’ legal contracts with tenants have been retroactively overridden en masse. This must be open to legal challenge. Tenants now have a risk-free option to stop paying rent with every incentive to do so.
The Act will not clear up the problem landlords, who will just let outside it.
October 29, 2025
I’m no lawyer, but I think I’m right in saying that contracts can be voided by ‘public policy’.
October 29, 2025
Today’s comedy store media releases?
Miliband admits wind power less reliable than expected. The £1.08bn he wanted to add to Britain’s annual energy bills to pay for new offshore wind farms fell massively short of what would be needed to deliver.
Energy Secretary would have to pay higher subsidies, making it harder to reach clean power targets – ISSUE “the Energy Secretary, paying!?”
Claire Coutinho, the shadow energy secretary and Mr Miliband’s predecessor in the last Tory government, said: “My time in the department convinced me that the Government is relying on bogus numbers that make net zero look artificially cheap.
ISSUE “the Energy Secretary, giving energy consumers an £300 off their Bills!”
October 29, 2025
For the average household, renewable subsidies already add £185 a year to their bills.
October 29, 2025
I wrote to enquire whether the EMR Delivery Body has issued a Notice of Auction as potentially required by the regulations. Their Delphic reply neither confirmed nor denied whether the notice has been issued.
The point here is that if the submitted applications are too small to use up the announced budget then any applicants will be awarded CFDs at the ceiling Administrative Strike Prices, and there is no auction. In those circumstances there would be a maximum of 3GW of offshore wind and 200MW of floating wind. This would be much like AR5, where there weren’t any bids at all for offshore wind, and solar bids were awarded at the maximum price. There seems little point in delay if there is no auction, as there is an ever more urgent need to procure additional capacity, though what we really need is dispatchable capacity, not renewables.
To acquire 5GW of offshore wind the auction would have to clear at £80MWh in 2024 prices, below the level which Ørsted cancelled their Hornsea 4 project. Given that the need is for 8GW or more, it looks as though Miliband’s CP2030 project is dead in the water. There should also be a clampdown on the NESO inspired More Grid investment programme to rein in rising bills.
October 29, 2025
So that more of them can be employed at vast wages leaving their social housing tenants in illegal dangerous mould infested homes. Why are they not compelled to compy with the same regulations as private landlords?
October 29, 2025
The answer I think is control. They don’t like individuals agreeing freely contracts which suit both parties, instead preferring corporates which are easier to get in bed with, or government itself.
Same with small businesses. Time to get out of both in the UK.
October 29, 2025
Not a fan, as most is just ‘click bait’
But today, but in an interview today – Former prime minister Liz Truss says elected politicians have little real power. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2126978/people-who-really-run-uk
Very little to be argued about what is said other than it is the elected Parliament that has the power to ‘hire & fire’ the fact they refuse that basic function means all the Countries woes fall to them, the elected politicians
October 29, 2025
Then they need to do what is required to recover the power and to control the feral bureaucracy.
It was always assumed that the secret state acted in our interest. It is becoming apparent that both in the US and U.K. they are misinforming the elected decision makers so that decisions they prefer, which are not in the interest of the country or the west, are taken.
For instance Trump is not making any effort to renegotiate START. He believes Ukraine is winning. I have to say that the line of fire is moving in one direction, anyone can see that even if we thing the rate is slow.
We might pay a disastrous price for allowing this deception.
October 29, 2025
Totally agree it’s all a mess. I am a landlord. Labour are finishing off what Tories started with Renters Reform Bill. Tories increased taxes on Landlords. The reduction of supply of properties to rent will decrease as sales market gets hotter… we are all waiting to get out
October 29, 2025
Can’t disagree with the article or the comments, currently 50. But off topic, I am disgusted that Rachael Reeves is now blatantly lying to try to cover up the mess she has made. Blaming Brexit is ludicrous, and that kind of lying is what causes voters to lose faith in MPs.
Just as Starmer, Lammy and the rest of our low calibre cabinet keep blaming fourteen years of Conservative government for everything they are doing wrong. The Conservatives did make mistakes, did not live up to proper conservative values, and did not live up to their promises on immigration, but the voters punished them for that.
What exactly have Labour achieved in the last 16 months, except do everything they can to handicap growth, ruin the economy and constantly lie?
October 29, 2025
Migrant found guilty of sex offences who was wrongly released from prison. Has now left the Country after ‘our’ Parliament gave him £500 of ‘our’ money to go. You couldn’t make it up!
It pays to be a Criminal
October 29, 2025
Parliament didn’t give him the money. The government is responsible.
October 29, 2025
Do our politicians realise that we’re a laughing stock in the eyes of the world, and if we can send him back to Ethiopia within 3 days, why can’t we send them all
October 29, 2025
+1
October 29, 2025
Can you imagine what would have happened to him he made that threat in Trumps America.
He would be gagged, and bound hand and feet, with a hood over his head, before being lifted into the plane.
October 29, 2025
Presidente Milei gave us an early demonstartion that when you reduce the regulation of the market, the supply of homes for rental goes ………………….. up! Who knew?
October 29, 2025
Socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. So owning property is to be ended, starting with small, private landlords. And remember that the Civil Service needs a huge supply of HMOs to keep the invaders they invite in to work in the black market washing their Teslas and weeding the garden etc..
October 29, 2025
Should fit plenty into Royal Lodge and Buck House.
October 29, 2025
Who knows what makes this government make decisions that will harm the rental market, crash the economy and all of the other silly decisions that they make. Who in their right mind is going to keep renting a property when they have no control over lease agreements, the period of time that they want to lease their property. It’s their property and it should be their decision, not the governments. The government doesn’t own the property, the landlord does. It’s just driving away more homes to rent.
October 29, 2025
The house of commons have just voted to remain the ECHRs …..oh dear
October 29, 2025
Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do….
October 30, 2025
The vote could’ve won if the tories backed it ? make no mistake the tories are pro echr
October 29, 2025
In my area of London the worst rogue landlord of all is the local council – the Housing Ombudsman found them guilty of “severe maladministration” based on their poor maintenance of their properties leading to mould, vermin etc., unrepaired electrical faults leading to safety issues, unrepaired windows leading to security problems, failure to communicate with residents, providing misleading advice, etc. etc. etc. A really damning report for which the council said “We are truly sorry and reiterate our deepest regrets to those residents affected.”
So, forcing all private landlords out of the market (Labour policy) and replacing them with the council (Green policy) will result in a decline in the quality of housing stock and the exploitation of renters and those in social housing.
October 29, 2025
The collapse in housebuilding has been entirely predictable. The BTL market has been burdened with heavy taxes, and is now disinvesting. High interest rates reduce affordability, and a return to higher stamp duty also dampened the market. Perhaps the most important item is the new net zero building regulations that came in in 2023. These push up the cost of new homes, as well as requiring designs that are unattractive. Builders aren’t building where they see no adequate market.
October 29, 2025
I don’t disagree with the points you have made, but can I ask, why should a Tenant bother with such a burden?
It’s a very. very, poor means to save!
It’s very insecure tenor, even with good Landlords!
Why did Mrs T bring in the ‘Right to Buy’?
She realised there is a problem; One, if ignored, will result in Socialism!
Why not Reform Planning, to allow People to build their own Houses, Cabins, etc,…
Making it a Financially viable to save, and live, cheaply. Building up Capital!
So on,…. Lots could be done, all part of an Enterprise Cultural!
October 29, 2025
well Elon is saying there will be a civil war in the UK. sadly I think he is probably correct.
October 29, 2025
The official salary for the UK Prime Minister is £172,153
Advert on Liverpool City Region Combined Authority website
Director of Clean Energy and Net Zero is £131,940 …..and I bet you can work from home
October 30, 2025
My grandparents and I believe your parents lived in council houses.They were clean,well maintained with decent sized gardens.There was a collective pride in living in these areas.It was post war and property was respected. No short term leases were necessary.
I have rented just one house.The tenants which before sale amounted to 4 different occupants tried to change the house ,stole private items,were dirty and I had difficulty in getting rent.A lease is there for that reason of a limited period of occupancy and should be adhered to. For goodness sake if you go to stay in a hotel you suddenly don’t have rights to stay longer and change your surroundings.
Society today is less concerned with standards of cleanliness ,manners and perhaps what we called Britishness being more concerned with consumables , large cars ,competition and eat as much rubbish as you can.Individual self control has been lost to greed and slovenly living.I therefore have no objection in a more controlled social housing scheme with rules and regulations to aid recovery of some sort of life lesson.
October 31, 2025
Sir John, I am truly amazed you need to ask, “Why does the government want to kill private renting?” when you have the precedent of its attack on the Kulaks. Private property is theft.
Need I remind you that Starmer is a self confessed Trotskyite and a Fabian. Reeves is another Fabian and her heroine is Red Ellen Wilkinson a founder of the Communist Party of Britain. Starmer’s mate Hermer is a Fabian. The disaster that is David Lammy is a Fabian. Wes Streeting is another. They do not believe sovereign nation states should exist and that they should be replaced by an international socialist order ruled by people like themselves. They hate democracy, since it cannot be extended beyond and is dependent upon the sovereign nation state, and they hate Britain and its foundations in Christianity and Judaism.
Starmer’s Gang is riddled with these hard Left socialist Fabians who want to demolish the sovereign democratic nation state:
Jonathan Reynolds, Secretary of State, Business and Trade, President of the Board of Trade
Peter Kyle, Secretary of State Science, Innovation and Technology
Hilary Benn, Secretary of State, Northern Ireland
Ian Murray, Secretary of State, Scotland
Nick Thomas-Symonds (Minister for the Cabinet Office)
Lucy Powell, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
Lucy Rigby, Solicitor General
Ministers of State: Sarah Jones, Alison McGovern, Douglas Alexander, Chris Bryant
James Murray, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
Parliamentary Secretaries: Georgia Gould MP, Abena Oppong-Asare MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State: Catherine West, Seema Malhotra, Luke Pollard, Ashley Dalton, Michael Shanks, Andrew Western, Baroness Twycross, Kirsty McNeill
Assistant Whips: Gen Kitchen, Keir Mather, Anna McMorrin, Martin McCluskey (previously Chair, Scottish Fabians)
Lord Kennedy of Southwark, Lords Chief Whip
Lord Leong, Lord in Waiting (Government Whip)