Updating post from Reddit.
Paragon proposes extending deadlines—2030 for new tenancies, 2033 for extended tenancies, and 2035 for all tenancies.
Paragon suggests financial incentives like Warm Homes Grant for landlords.
Around 60% of private rental properties in England and Wales have an EPC rating of D or lower, making upgrades a massive task.
Warns current deadlines (2028/2030) could lead to landlords exiting, reducing rental homes.
> “Rushed legislation could cause significant disruption to a privately rented sector that will already be adapting to the new Renter’s Right Bill, forcing some landlords to sell because they cannot complete works in time. Adopting a more considered and realistic time frame will give landlords more capacity to adapt their properties, allow the retrofit supply chain and labour force to grow and, ultimately, will be more beneficial for tenants.”
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I'm a private tenant on a predominantly council tenanted estate..I've just had all my council neighbours getting brand new roofs with insulation and boiler upgrades while I pay through my nose for a place that leaks like a sieve when it drizzles..its the original roof installed in the 60s and the felt has basically disintergrated ..my boiler is from 1990..my landlord is one who will only fix it if he is forced too..
With respect he won't do it anyway, very few people are going to spend 10 grand to update houses when they can just sell them and take the money out. All that will happen if it goes ahead as planned is hundreds of thousands of people will he evicted, prices will rise and lower income families will have almost zero chance of getting a home.
> very few people are going to spend 10 grand to update houses
According to the gov.uk website I need to spend £6k on floor insulation to save £37 per year, and another £6k on solar water heating to save £26 per year.
Oh, ok then. When can you start?
I think that the government plan, to make landlords sell, and people buy those properties that are bellow the energy efficiency C. And by the way some houses you stuck with what you've got, you can't put duble glazing on a listed property , old drafty windows matters lot more then a heatpump. We should start with insolation and better windows then installing high price heatpumps. it's all a game government wants landlords to sell so the house are more affordable , and they also want to prop up the demand by new build which are more energy efficient for the landlords who want to stay in the market . It's all politics
You think more housing supply becoming available through landlords selling up will increase house prices?
Should have been clear, rental prices will increase. No landlords selling won't raise sale prices
What will happen is the landlord will be forced to make improvements or sell up
If they do sell they will need to sell with huge discount to another landlord, or a owner occupier. Neither will want the headache. So the only option they have is to sell it back to the housing association who will do all the work needed to get the epc c rating
I live in an x council private rental and agree exactly with what the poster has said
Private house owners watch the exact same thing happen around them, mate.
It's just slightly annoying isn't it?
Depends who's getting them to be honest ;)
If you beleive you can get a better property at simular price level elsewhere, then exercise that choice. It does not sound like your current landlord is providing a service at the level you demand.
Depending on where the poster is in the country, this is likely not actionable advice. Most tenants as it stands do not have the option of picking and choosing properties based on standards, and things only improve via statutory means
Exactly, I'm in Essex .. prices have sky rocketed, minimal properties available etc...just up and moving incurs a large cash outlay that I don't have right now
There are 4 times as many landlords as teachers in England, absolutely shocking that rents are at the level they are
London rents rose so steeply in 2020/2021 and nearly 750k londoners got served a s21 at that time, we all landed up in Essex which in turn rocketed the demand and prices out here. The place I rented was 900pm for the previous tenant and it rose to 1350pm when we rented it.. (because of high demand apparently) Moving during lockdown was one thing, but every property we went to see had a literal queue of people waiting to view it.. estate agents loved it and rents jumped dramatically..obviously they've not come down again..
Ha, wish I could move... but that involves finances I currently do not have.. all the things that need fixing were supposedly going to be fixed as soon as possible when we moved in.... 5 years ago... all issues that he knew about... I've fixed most of the issues out my own pocket because he doesn't.. but I'm not going to put a new roof on or replace popped double glazing that's for sure
Part of the problem is that for many people this just not possible
We just moved because of low landlord standards. We had to save £3k til we could afford the rent and deposit in advance and then the movers, boxes, deep clean. I am disabled so I couldn’t do these jobs myself. Plus we are now paying £300 extra a month for the simple pleasures of working central heating, no black mould and opening windows. Luxury.
You realise the level they demand is a roof that doesn't piss with rain, and a boiler from the last 3 decades right?
This is why these things have to be laws and why people see landlords as leeches, because of sentences like these...
There should not be a house that someone has taken off the market so others have to go through them to live in it that is in such a piss poor condition.
And no I don't think all landlords are bad, but it's really easy to see why people do.
And how privalged do you have to be to tell people to just move house, like it's an easy thing without also losing your job (in thr current job market especially) or having to travel much longer (further eating into funds).
Im guessing you have yours so screw everyone else?
With all due respect... no?
Renters have been treated like cash cows for decades, with things heavily weighted in landlords' favour. Safe, warm homes are what we pay you for, I'm glad the government are forcing you to do your jobs.
Right? give extensions for something that a lot of people are just waiting for the last minute to resolve anyways
Just make it a rule you cant rent out houses with a lower EPC than your own home lol
> Just make it a rule you cant rent out houses with a lower EPC than your own home
That would be a fun rule.
"around 60% have a rating of D or lower".
Maybe instead of pocketing the profits, landlords should have done their own 'phased approach' over the last however many years. This is the point of self-regulation. It prevents imposed regulation.
It's wild that we expect housing to be a 'for profit investment' which should carry risk, but also for the government to protect that investment from risk.
« Other tenures » meaning a glut of dodgy properties will be on the market. Cheaper do ups for those renters perhaps.
I mean, this policy is a great way to accelerate the sale of rental units to private owners
Probably true, but there are a few problems with this as a policy objective. The private owners and the previous tenants aren't the same people. The idea that people above who are saying they can't afford to move to a new rental will just buy properties is just laughable. Secondly, we have a rising population, we need more property of all types. But what we need most of right now is actually rental property. Moving existing houses from rentals to privately owned will make the existing problems faced by tenants worse. Thirdly if this actually happens the policy objective of upgrading houses for green reasons won't happen. The houses will stay in the condition they are in now. Honestly, this policy is desperately bad news for tenants. It may well help a few better-off people who were always going to be able to buy houses soon anyway. It makes life much harder for anyone else.
100% agree. I’m actually selling my UK rental property at the moment. It’s an HMO and has been rented for years to groups of young professionals. It’s in a city where the rental market is already super tight. Will most likely be bought by an owner occupier
Phased introduction? Landlords have got 4 and a half years to sort thier shit out.
Will the current government still be in power by then ?
Oh no! Landlords will stop letting houses, and sell! Flooding the market with new homes and driving down prices! Making purchasing a house far more accessaboe to those in poorer economic situations! The horror! I am shooketh
The timeframe is very tight but I imagine it will change. Reform may even get it then it will be all binned.
Reform cannot decided whether it’s pro business, pro renter, pro working class. What I would say is that the majority of there base is working class, high buy in from disabled & benefits receiving voters. If most of them are renters is not looking great for landlords.
It is in the manifesto, but sure.