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Possessions Are Down But Will <br>Government Move On Section 21?<br>That prediction has turned out to be a new kind of u2018project fearu2019. According to Letting Agent <br>Today, MoJ data shows a u201cdramatic long-term decline in the number of possessions in <br>the private rental sectoru201d. Figures have been falling for several years and the suggestion <br>is that this is because landlords and letting agents have been working hard to negotiate <br>payment arrangements to help renters in arrears and have kept talking to their tenants u2013<br>as we strongly advised during the worst of the pandemic. So good news then. But will th
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Possessions Government Move On Section 21? Are Down But Will That prediction has turned out to be a new kind of ‘project fear’. According to Letting Agent Today, MoJ data shows a “dramatic long-term decline in the number of possessions in the private rental sector”. Figures have been falling for several years and the suggestion is that this is because landlords and letting agents have been working hard to negotiate payment arrangements to help renters in arrears and have kept talking to their tenants – as we strongly advised during the worst of the pandemic. So good news then. But will the Government look at these statistics and reconsider whether there is a strong requirement to include the scrapping of Section 21 evictions in the long-awaited Renters' Reform Bill?