More than 14,000 landlords started court proceedings to evict tenants from their properties between October and December 2021, according to the Ministry of Justice.

A ban on evictions was put in place during the pandemic to protect vulnerable tenants but those measures were lifted last summer.

Sky's Nick Martin reports.

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