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Corporate landlords: downsides

ended 28. October 2025

One conveyancer on Newspage has said the independent landlord is effectively no more, following the Renters' Rights Act receiving Royal Assent last night. Corporate landlords, run by pension funds and other institutional investors, could be the new norm for the private rented sector. But what are the potential downsides and risks of this? Any thoughts, ASAP please.

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Scott Gallacher
Director at Rowley Turton
This may well be a mixed blessing for tenants. On the one hand, corporate landlords could bring a more professional and regulated approach, which might, in theory, be better for tenants and the public than the occasional rogue individual landlord. However, there’s no guarantee that corporate landlords will actually be any better. The corporate world has its fair share of bad apples, and a faceless organisation may prove far less responsive or helpful than a real person. You only have to look at the delays we regularly experience from insurance companies and pension providers to see that ‘corporate efficiency’ isn’t always what it’s claimed to be.
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Suzanne Smith
Founder at The Independent Landlord
As the person behind The Independent Landlord blog, I do not believe the Renters' Rights Act heralds the end of the independent landlord. I'm certainly not selling up!

What it does herald is the end of landlords winging it, not taking compliance seriously, and treating it like passive income.

All landlords need to learn how to operate in the brave new post Renters' Rights Act world. We can't delegate it all to letting agents as the buck stops with the landlord on the multitude of offences in the Act.

This is true for corporate landlords, investors with large portfolios and the accidental landlord. What counts is having a professional approach and delivering a high quality service to the people who live in our rental properties.