‘It’s pretty brutal’: Why UK landlords have been rushing to evict renters

No-fault evictions were banned on May 1 as the Renters Rights Act came into force. But a surge of section 21 notices were served shortly before the law changed, with some unlucky tenants ousted from their homes at the 11th hour

‘It’s pretty brutal’: Why UK landlords have been rushing to evict renters
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Renting in the UK is, more often than not, a headache. Or, in extreme cases, a horror story: damp box rooms costing a grand a month, mice sightings, and unreachable, unbothered landlords. Perhaps the most traumatic of all is the fact that, up until May 1, you could be forced out of your home with just two months’ notice for no reason at all.

Section 21 evictions, also referred to as no-fault evictions, were legal in England for over 37 years (take one guess whichhellip;

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