{"id":9834,"date":"2025-03-12T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citylets.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9834"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:25:34","slug":"painting-a-brighter-future-for-the-prs-by-allowing-the-tenants-to-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citylets.co.uk\/blog\/painting-a-brighter-future-for-the-prs-by-allowing-the-tenants-to-do-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting a Brighter Future for the PRS \u2013 By Allowing the Tenants to Do So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Housing Bill continues to journey through Parliament, can consensus and common sense prevail in allowing tenants to decorate their homes as they see fit?<\/p>\n<p>A recent look around at the homes available for rent in Glasgow demonstrated a huge diversity of properties available, but also a huge variety of standards of properties in respect of decoration. This was highlighted particularly by a flat made available for rent that had previously featured in Scotland\u2019s Home of Year and was decorated as highly as one might expect from a property on the interior design show.<\/p>\n<p>Being unable to decorate may feel like less of a burden for a tenant in a well-maintained flat than for one renting a similar flat that hasn&#8217;t been updated in over 20 years. The immediate counter arguments will be that the market takes care of this by pricing the respective flats accordingly, that decoration is a highly personal topic therefore there is no starting point that would keep everyone happy, and that reasonable requests to reasonable landlords are generally approved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylets.co.uk\/blog\/painting-a-brighter-future-for-the-prs-by-allowing-the-tenants-to-do-so\/share-march-25-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9836\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citylets.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Share-March-25-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.citylets.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Share-March-25-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.citylets.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Share-March-25-2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The market does play its part here in pricing properties but that does not change the fact that each tenant faces a lack of choice and autonomy over the property which they plan to adopt as their home, the tenant who moves to a highly decorated flat can be equally restricted in their ability to make changes to their taste as the tenant who moves to the poorly decorated property.\u00a0 And whilst decoration is a very personal topic, that cannot be used as an excuse for poor decoration in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>In the PRS, tenants can often have less flexibility when it comes to decorating compared to other tenures. Buyers on the open market may choose a property in need of modernisation, sometimes benefiting from a lower purchase price, while social housing tenants may find their homes decorated before moving in or receive a decoration voucher to help with costs, often with fewer restrictions on making the space their own.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Balancing tenant autonomy and landlord considerations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The allowances made in Part 3 on decoration give some valuable concessions to the tenant but rely heavily on the definition of reasonableness, which until tested will be as subjective as taste in d\u00e9cor is.<\/p>\n<p>Landlords can get ahead of these changes, both when they let a property and in considering requests for redecoration.\u00a0 Small investments in decoration when letting a property can increase the desirability of a property and help with tenancy sustainment.\u00a0 Being open to requests for decoration and willing to enter constructive conversations around this will allow tenants to foster a sense of their own identity in the property and may also lead to a more sustained tenancy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.share.org.uk\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8697 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citylets.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/share.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Housing Bill continues to journey through Parliament, can consensus and common sense prevail in allowing tenants to decorate their homes as they see fit? 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