Oliver Nunn, a Barrister at 3PB discusses the most significant takeaway from the renter’s right bill on the relationship between landlord and tenant. Landlord and Tenant law is all about balancing competing interests between landlords and tenants, and their contractual relationships. It is important for tenants, as this is their home. They need security of tenure, all the economic, social, wellbeing implications of having a secure home under good conditions over their head is important. For a landlord it is about vindicating their property rights, it is their asset after all. Landlord and Tenant law over the years has to try and achieve that balance. Where the preference of the balance lies changes with the different governments of different stripes, and different scholars, student of the law and litigators will have their own view of where the correct balance needs to be struck. Over the years that pendulum has gone to and fro. The key advantages for the tenant is the abolition of the s.21of Housing Act 1988, abolition of no-fault evictions, prohibition on rental bidding to try and prevent respective tenants entering into a bidding war with one another. There is also a restriction under the bill on rent increases during tenancy and there is an important change to some of the grounds of achieving possession. Government and Parliament will try to keep a good balance, and in their attempts to this bill provides for expansion in other grounds for possession.

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