A video on Facebook claims renters can claim ownership or ‘half-ownership’ of properties they’ve rented for over five years. Experts told us this is nonsense.
What was claimed
In the four minute long video, a man claims that it “used to be seven years before you could go for half ownership of the property” and that after 10 or 12 years “you could put in and be the full owner of that piece of land”. None of this is true. Full Fact spoke to multiple housing law experts who confirmed that people who have rented a property are not able to claim any ownership of it simply because they have lived there for a certain number of years.Robert Brown, a barrister at Selborne Chambers specialising in landlord and tenant, property, housing and public law, said the claims were “nonsense”.
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