GOING into lockdown in March, the Government proclaimed a ban on tenant evictions, pledging that no tenant in a private rented home, who had lost their wages due to Covid-19 would be kicked out of their private rented home until the late summer.

Fast forward to August and the press were being briefed as late as Wednesday 19^th August that this freeze in evictions in England and Wales would cease on the 23^rd August.

That was until just after 4pm Friday 21^st August when Mr Jenrick, the Housing Minister, announced that the eviction ban would be extended for a further four weeks and also buy to let landlords must now give their tenants six months notice to gain possession.

Click below to read more on the landlord’s perspective in an article from The Rent Guarantee Company.