There’s been a 13% drop in Section 21 notices issued in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year.
This is despite many landlord organisations and letting agents saying landlords are selling up ahead of the Renters Rights Bill becoming law this autumn.
However, homelessness charity Crisis – analysing figures from the Ministry of Justice – says 30,729 households in England have received a Section 21 eviction notice since July 2024. And Crisis claims 43,310 households have been evicted by bailiffs since April 2019, when a ban on Section 21 was first announced by the former Tory government.
As currently drafted, the Renters Rights Bill abolishes Section 21s, notice periods will be extended to four months for most grounds, periodic tenancies will be established in full, and in-tenancy rent increases will be limited to ‘market rate’ and to a maximum of once a year.
Matt Downie, chief executive at Crisis, says: “Despite good intentions from the Westminster Government, thousands of people are still being unjustly evicted from their homes and threatened with – or even forced into – homelessness.
“We know the UK government has had a packed agenda, but we now need ministers to rebuff efforts to weaken the Renters Rights Bill and get this new legislation onto the statute book as soon as possible when parliament returns. Unfreezing housing benefit in the autumn would also ensure that more people in England can afford a safe and stable home.”
This article is taken from Landlord Today