The Renter's Rights Bill is one of the government's flagship bills

Labour’s flagship Renters’ Rights Bill introduces new rules on rent reviews which risk alienating landlords and causing a sell-up in the sector, experts say.

The bill will allow tenants to challenge the agreed tenancy rent in the first six months of a tenancy or any new rent proposed by a landlord .

There’s “no risk to the tenant” of going to a tribunal to challenge a rent increase, says Greg Tsuman, managing director of Lettings at Martyn Gerrard. “In the worst case scenario, they delay the rent increase. In the best case scenario, they reduce the rent that becomes due.”

“In the short term, it will create a sort of [rent] ceiling… in the long term, if landlords start getting scared that every tenant will be challe

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