Landlords have been urged to share their experiences of being hit by County Court delays when evicting tenants.
The High Court Enforcement Officers Association is campaigning for reform and wants the courts to make it easier to transfer possession claims to the High Court, where enforcement is usually faster.
Backed by the NRLA and Propertymark, it has published a landlord and property agent survey to highlight the challenges landlords face around the country. Data and collected evidence will be shared with the government to illustrate the scale of the problem and to demonstrate how landlords are being unfairly affected by delays.
The NRLA says it is working with the association to lobby government for a change in the law to make the whole process quicker and easier.
“There are landlords across the country who have waited months to have an eviction order granted by a judge who will be forced to wait several more months for an eviction date from over-worked and under-resourced County Court bailiffs,” chief executive Ben Beadle (pictured) adds.
“All this time landlords are losing money through lost rent which is no fault of their own. It is an unfair, unacceptable situation for all of these individuals.”
The call to action comes just weeks after landlords struggling to get their properties back were urged to enforce their judgments through the High Court.
Those who haven’t yet applied to the County Court for a possession order can apply for leave to ‘transfer up’ to use the High Court for enforcement at the same time as applying for the possession order.
In some parts of the country, this could save months compared to waiting for an eviction date from a County Court bailiff or having to make a separate application to transfer enforcement to the High Court at a later stage.
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