The government is failing to acknowledge the true state of the court system and its lack of readiness to handle possession cases following the end of Section 21, the National Residential Landlords Association has warned.

Landlord repossessions across England and Wales have rocketed in the past year, ahead of the Renters’ Rights Bill becoming law and scrapping Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions.

It was good to spend a powerful and practical Sunday in Birmingham at the Renters Rights Bill Update Conference hosted by PIN with Simon Zutshi, Paul Shamplina, Susie Crolla and Adam Lawrence designed to help landlords stay compliant, stay protected, and spot the opportunities others are missing with the looming Renters Rights Bill.

The UK’s rental supply crisis is now most acute in towns as more renters are priced out of cities, according to Q2 2025 research by flat-share site, SpareRoom.

The government is almost a year into the first year of a five-year Parliament in which it has promised to deliver 1.5 million homes.

The Bill returned to the House of Commons on Monday last week with high expectation that the government wants it passed into law in time for Housing Secretary Angela Rayner to announce it at the Labour conference, beginning on September 28.

Private renters are seeing costs rise at a faster rate than mortgaged homeowners, analysis from Zoopla has revealed.

England’s PRS stayed robust in August, with average monthly rents hitting £1,480 per property, just shy of the record set in July, according to the Goodlord Rental Index.