In terms of tenants giving notice to landlords under new laws, better or worse?

Under the old system, once you'd completed your fixed term and were on a rolling tenancy (statutory periodic), you could leave with 1 month’s notice. That made it fairly easy to line things up - find a place available soon and lock it in, and then give notice.

Under the new system it sounds like:

• All tenancies are rolling
• But tenants must give 2 months’ notice

So usually with that long notice you're often going to have to give your notice without having a place lined up (there are some available 2+ months away, but more common is like a month or even less).

I guess for some people it's not a big deal, but I found that always the most stressful thing about giving notice, you really want the next place lined up first and this makes it a lot harder.