Helen Crane

It's really important to look at the sort of legal side of things as well.

Yeah.

You'll need to obviously sign a contract when you sell this land.

And sometimes there's sort of restrictions that maybe if the developer doesn't get planning permission, then they'll sort of take the money back.

Yeah, there's a lot of kind of get out clauses in these sort of agreements because obviously property development is so uncertain.

So you want to get a lawyer to look over anything you've been asked to sign and things like that.

Also, you know, you might be by selling, you might be giving up other kind of rights.

So you need to think about things like access, service connections, sewers, all kind of very boring sounding things.

But really important if you're considering letting someone build a house at the bottom of your garden.

I think you're right in that it was difficult to get rid of your tenants anyway.

And there are all these exceptions, as Simon said, so this rule about landlords needing to give tenants four months notice to move out, that doesn't apply if the tenant hasn't paid their rent for a long time or has damaged a property or has caused antisocial behaviour, then it's only two months, which is

the same as it is now.

So I think landlords' argument that it will be harder to get difficult tenants out doesn't necessarily wash, but it will be more difficult to get tenants who are good tenants out, which I think is right, to be honest.

I think the main thing that this legislation brings for tenants is security.

um so it's going to be harder for your landlord to make you leave your house just because they want you to or they want to put the rent up which i think is is fair to be honest you know we've seen such huge rent rises uh over the last few years tenants are paying a lot it's pretty much at this point the same as paying a mortgage in in most areas and i do think you know you do deserve if you're a good tenant you pay your rent you look after the property i think you do deserve a level of

And security in your home, you know, that's one of the bases of a good life, really.

I think, you know, knowing that you're not going to be kicked out for no reason, knowing that, you know, your landlord can't just wildly put the rent up whenever they want.

I mean, it wasn't quite whenever they want before, but...

There's stricter kind of rules on what they can do.

And to be honest, I think it's right.