{"id":554283,"date":"2026-04-28T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554283\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:00:08","slug":"renters-rights-act-my-tenant-owes-15000-in-rent-but-i-cant-get-them-out-of-the-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554283\/","title":{"rendered":"Renters\u2019 Rights Act: My tenant owes \u00a315,000 in rent, but I can&#8217;t get them out of the property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to figures from the Ministry of Justice, private landlords currently wait 26 weeks &#8211; a median figure &#8211; between bringing a claim and being able to repossess a property. Ten years ago, it was approximately 16 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Data from the National Residential Landlords&#8217; Association suggests the average rent loss per property is more than \u00a312,000 nationally, and more than \u00a319,000 in London per property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Section 21 evictions are a &#8220;paper-based&#8221; administrative process, according to Chris Norris, policy director of the National Residential Landlords&#8217; Association &#8211; but under the new rules landlords will have to have a court hearing if a tenant challenges an eviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A government spokesperson said the reforms would &#8220;reduce pressure on the courts in the long-term, but to support them now we are recruiting up to 1,000 judges and tribunal members across all courts and tribunals this year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said the Act would give tenants &#8220;much needed and long overdue&#8221; security in their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to figures from the Ministry of Justice, private landlords currently wait 26 weeks &#8211; a median figure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}