Response - Lender repossession of residential property: protection of tenants

By: Nicola Hughes
Published: October 2009

Response - Lender repossession of residential property: protection of tenants

We wholeheartedly support the objective and methods proposed. Whilst the majority of tenants - particularly in buy-to-let properties - should expect to be protected from sudden eviction by lender good practice, it is important that a legal minimum exists for those tenants who are not. In particular, tenants of amateur or unprofessional landlords, or lenders who are wilfully unscrupulous or simply ignorant of their legal obligations with regard to occupiers.