However, the Renters Rights Act may not be positive for everyone.
Debbie Darvill, Lettings Director at Ellison Sparks in Chalders Ford, Hampshire, said: “I think landlords will feel less empowered, and I think some of them are just not comfortable with it and won’t want to continue as landlords.
“There will be another generation of landlords coming through that won’t know any different and they’ll be quite happy with it, but it’s just going through that sort of pain barrier, really.
Darvill added tenants can challenge landlords if they refuse their application around keeping pets.
She said: “If a tenant requests a pet and the landlord refuses, if the tenant’s not happy with that, then there is a re-dress scheme that the tenant can go to, a private rented sector ombudsman, so they can escalate it to that level if they think that they’ve been unfairly refused a pet in a property.
“However, that particular ombudsman scheme is not going to be up and running until about 2028.
“So in the meantime, if a tenant wasn’t happy, they would have to go to court.”
