<![CDATA[the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot:]]>the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot:

  • there are no more fixed rental contracts; everything is done on a rolling basis with a generous multiple-month notice
  • no-fault evictions are gone
  • after an eviction without reason landlords couldn't re-list it as a rental property for a year
  • rent can be increased once a year with a 2-month notice
  • rent increases can be challenged by a tenant
  • "rental bidding" where you try to give the landlord a higher price than other tenants is made illegal (this was the single biggest WTF moment i had arriving to the UK)
  • pets must be accepted by default, unless there is a good reason not to ("I don't want to" is not a good reason)

hell yeah.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/5e53046d-58de-42e7-ad5a-cfc0621bfe33/the-uk-has-had-some-new-legislation-enacted-which-improves-renters-rights-initially-with-england-housing-is-a-devolved-matter-by-a-lotRSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 04:39:14 GMTTue, 14 Apr 2026 07:12:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:36:03 GMT]]>@whitequark @exec I didn't really know about it either - now I'm wondering if that's what happened to a couple of places in the past which we were close to getting...

Also the no-pets thing seems almost universal - surprised that is in there!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/mossman/statuses/116403087816767022https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/mossman/statuses/116403087816767022Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:36:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:27:40 GMT]]>@russss @whitequark first in the queue for the guillotines

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Psychonaut/statuses/116403054863174402https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Psychonaut/statuses/116403054863174402Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:27:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:26:03 GMT]]>@BenCotterill @whitequark @purplepadma it was a thing for many years for me before I bought a house and many of my friends still have had to deal with it. The price advertised becomes the minimum and you were asked to put how much you’d be willing to pay and the highest bidder would get it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/kanec/statuses/116402812596662255https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/kanec/statuses/116402812596662255Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:26:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:07:44 GMT]]>@whitequark @Psychonaut the law was passed last year but most (?) of the changes actually take effect next month https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69bc04b8f7b1c24d8e23ce60/The_Renters__Rights_Act_Information_Sheet_2026.pdf

(Landlords are currently being very normal about this by evicting everyone before the deadline)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/russss/statuses/116402740580330272https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/russss/statuses/116402740580330272Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:07:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:04:27 GMT]]>@whitequark oh my! I had forgotten this lot was still progressing, I think I'd just assumed it was never going to happen. Great news!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.ale.gd/users/yvan/statuses/116402727654876041https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.ale.gd/users/yvan/statuses/116402727654876041Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:04:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:32:09 GMT]]>@az @exec @whitequark everything's different by state, naturally; e.g. soliciting rent bidding is illegal in the ACT (maybe VIC too as of recently? don't remember)

in fact, this UK list is pretty similar to the list of protections the ACT brought in a few years ago, which have been great. hopefully the rest follow suit (as I think VIC did recently)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tacobelllabs.net/users/oddline/statuses/116402600639916461https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tacobelllabs.net/users/oddline/statuses/116402600639916461Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:32:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:23:30 GMT]]>@whitequark
The thing is, these are all things that any reasonable/normal/kind landlord would be doing anyway. But reasonable/normal/kind landlords are rare it seems, so legislation is needed!

Letting Agents are to blame for a lot of bad treatment of tenants - encouraging landlords to maximise profits and be ruthless. A friend who rents out a house thinks they will have to sell because of this law, but we pointed out that they wouldn't want to do any of the things it makes illegal anyway.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/huxley/statuses/116402566647321951https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/huxley/statuses/116402566647321951Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:23:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:03:18 GMT]]>@whitequark @purplepadma When was rental bidding a thing?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BenCotterill/statuses/116402487173573573https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BenCotterill/statuses/116402487173573573Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:03:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:02:04 GMT]]>@whitequark @RejoinEU The Employee Rights Act is also a huge step forward, which has been largely ignored for reasons I don't understand.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/RolloTreadway/statuses/116402482316976100https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/RolloTreadway/statuses/116402482316976100Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:02:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:52:16 GMT]]>@whitequark I'm still happily amazed that passed, given how many MPs are landlords. Such an improvement

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spookygirl.boo/notes/al20bgggg3evfhdrhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spookygirl.boo/notes/al20bgggg3evfhdrTue, 14 Apr 2026 09:52:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:32:51 GMT]]>@whitequark Met these lovely folks through Job #3 - lots of useful info for renters, landlords and campaigners:

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(we-rent.org.uk)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/distinctdipole/statuses/116402367481818626https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/distinctdipole/statuses/116402367481818626Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:32:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:08:52 GMT]]>@NormanDunbar @krans @RejoinEU oh the bishops are gone??

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116402273132740218https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116402273132740218Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:08:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:07:27 GMT]]>@whitequark @RejoinEU that’s why I’m still voting Green at the next election

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116241713789233386/statuses/116402267616936632https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116241713789233386/statuses/116402267616936632Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:07:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:06:54 GMT]]>@whitequark @exec sounds like the most USA brained shit ever, i'm really surprised there's an aspect of unhinged capitalism that's actually UK/Commonwealth exclusive o.0

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/valpackett/statuses/116402265403048400https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/valpackett/statuses/116402265403048400Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:06:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:33 GMT]]>@Psychonaut August 2025

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116402240452857503https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116402240452857503Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:59:48 GMT]]>@whitequark from when are these changes effective?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Psychonaut/statuses/116402237499984434https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Psychonaut/statuses/116402237499984434Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:59:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:36:56 GMT]]>@az @exec if a landlord told me not to violate the walls I would simply completely ignore this. I mean, I come from countries where installing a heat pump yourself in a rental is a reasonable and accepted thing to do, who the fuck do landlords think they are here?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116402147588044464https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116402147588044464Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:36:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:36:19 GMT]]>@whitequark Rental bidding sounds nuts. We need more housing, not rental auctions.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Xenophon/statuses/116402145144893744https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Xenophon/statuses/116402145144893744Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:36:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:35:45 GMT]]>@whitequark @exec yeah. 😞 plus we have all that other stuff like landlords are allowed to enter the property 4 times a year to inspect and take photos/video that it's being kept clean to their own standard.

and not allowed to put anything on the walls without landlord permission (yes, including those 3M commander strip hooks)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scorpinc.social/users/az/statuses/116402142923386368https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scorpinc.social/users/az/statuses/116402142923386368Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:35:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:34:22 GMT]]>@whitequark holy shit i'm so glad!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kind.social/users/DionRa/statuses/116402137470947327https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kind.social/users/DionRa/statuses/116402137470947327Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:34:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:50:51 GMT]]>@az @exec Australia, right?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116401966388431056https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116401966388431056Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:50:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:49:24 GMT]]>@whitequark @exec okay wow those changes are way better than our system. 💀 fixed-term agreements was max 24mths (standard was 12), fucked up that the UK allowed over 12-year leases before?

i think some of those provisions would be lovely here! technically we have a bunch of them it's just not enforced or trying to enforce it screws you over. bigger problem is probably bonkers market rate driven by limited supply.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scorpinc.social/users/az/statuses/116401960700682800https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scorpinc.social/users/az/statuses/116401960700682800Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:49:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:44:30 GMT]]>@jcoglan @whitequark most often here there'll be one, maybe two showings for the property (shit-out-of-luck if you can't make it that day), then assuming the property isn't hellishly bad the agent will get a bunch of offers (all done through one of a few truly awful web platforms that take way too much personal info) and the agent picks one of those at their leisure.

usually unless you make the highest offer you won't even get your application looked at (some of the web platforms tell you if they looked or not...)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://critter.cafe/users/irina/statuses/116401941396752101https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://critter.cafe/users/irina/statuses/116401941396752101Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:44:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights [initially with England; housing is a devolved matter] by a lot: on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:44:11 GMT]]>@whitequark Absolutely. Where I wrote, "No-one," I should have written, "Very few people on Mastodon."

@RejoinEU

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/krans/statuses/116401940180622491https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/krans/statuses/116401940180622491Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:44:11 GMT