The call comes as the Government puts together a working group of housing charities and landlords to develop proposals that would see the eviction process being speeded up.
The move would also help the pressure on the UK's courts to deal with evictions.
Evicting tenants to be made easier and quicker
One of the biggest reasons for the change, is that the current process is cumbersome and can take between six and 12 months to complete which means that many landlords then go several months without receiving any rent payments.
In turn, this means that some landlords may fall behind in their mortgage repayments and this could seriously affect their credit rating.
Now, Graham Kinnear, the managing director at Landlord Assist, says landlords would welcome any changes to the eviction procedure which would help them remove a nuisance tenant who has created anti-social behaviour issues or is not paying their rent and replace them with a good tenant.
Landlord’s new system for evicting nuisance tenants
A new system would, he adds, also help good tenants because unreliable tenants will be removed from the better properties as landlords use the legal process effectively.
And this new regime will also encourage more landlords to enter the private rental sector which would create a wider choice of properties for tenants.
Mr Kinnear said: “We would like a possession service that is swifter to reunite a landlord with their property in a timely manner and which would help minimise any losses a landlord makes, and even encourage more landlords to enter the rental market place. This would help address the housing shortage in the UK currently.”
The firm says that the best way for a landlord to protect themselves from taking on a nuisance tenant is to carry out full reference checks before the tenancy agreement begins.
References should be sought from employers and the previous landlord as well as a credit report, the firm adds.
Tenants too frightened of eviction to report problems
Meanwhile, the housing charity Shelter says that around 200,000 tenants were evicted in ‘revenge evictions’ last year after asking their landlord to fix a problem in the property.
However, the government says that such revenge evictions are very rare and the Housing Minister Kris Hopkins pointed to a recent English Housing Survey which revealed that most tenants were satisfied with their landlord’s service.
He pledged that the government would root out rogue landlords who are guilty of revenge evictions and have provided help and more than £6.5 million to local authorities to tackle the issue.
