Renters Reform Update – Part 2

In the first update article following the laying of the Renters (Reform) Bill before Parliament we considered that the Bill proposes that Housing Act 1988 (the Act) tenancies will be periodic and that periods of anything longer than one month will not be permitted. We also considered the proposed loss of section 21 along with the remaining parts of Part 1, Chapter 2 of the Act. This means that assured shorthold tenancies will be replaced by assured tenancies which is what the Act introduced in 1989 as the default tenancy, before the introduction of assured shorthold tenancies as the default ...