No-fault evictions: 'A note through the door evicted me'

Late last year, Mark Evans got a note through the door telling him he had to leave the home he had lived in since 2016.

It was a section 21 notice, which gives tenants two months to move out.

Known as no-fault evictions, the law is now being changed to ban them in Wales and England, while this has already happened in Scotland.

But landlords said section 21 notices were mostly used to evict tenants who were in arrears or causing a nuisance.

After speaking to his letting agent, Mr Evans, 47, learnt his landlord simply wanted to sell the Aberdare property.

He is still there on a monthly basis, but added: "Every time I go to the estate agent to pay the rent they are asking 'when are you going to leave":[]}