Simon Gordon from the National Landlords Association (NLA) revealed that from an administrative and organisational point of view the scheme has worked well.
Although it is very early on, Gordon suggested he hadn’t heard of any adverse effects. However he did suggest that he would have preferred to see the government target “rogue elements” specifically and not just a mandatory universal system.
Although he did reveal that although the government didn’t accept that argument when the bill was passed, the NLA was “now in the business of trying to make it work”.
“What we would like to see is landlord tenant disputes moved to the jurisdiction,” he commented. “At the moment, it takes weeks, if not months, for a court to resolve a landlord tenant dispute a possession issue, for instance.”
He suggested following the examples of the housing courts in Norway and Australia: “We think we should move to a system under which a specialist body – like a residential property tribunal, an RPT its jurisdiction is expanded and it took on those sorts of matters,” he concluded.
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