Renters' Rights Act 2025 and full compliance guidance for UK private landlords
Tell the Navigator about your properties, tenancies, and current certificates. It builds a compliance profile and routes you to the right journey — new landlord setup, RRA preparation, or full audit.
Work through your obligations step by step. At each stage, you know exactly what's required, what documents you need, what it costs, and what the deadline is. Decision points get their own structured checkpoint.
Run the completion audit to get your compliance score out of 100. Address any gaps in priority order. Set up your renewal calendar so certificates never expire. Review annually.
Section 21 abolished. All ASTs convert to periodic tenancies. New rules on rent increases, pet requests, and rental discrimination. The Renters' Rights Act 2025 changes everything — and the deadline is less than two months away.
Landlord Compliance Navigator walks you through exactly what you need to do before 1 May 2026.
The Renters' Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025 and introduces the biggest changes to the private rented sector in a generation. From 1 May 2026, Section 21 'no-fault' evictions are abolished in England. All assured shorthold tenancies automatically convert to periodic tenancies. New rules apply to rent increases (Section 13 only, once per year), pet requests (landlords cannot unreasonably refuse), and rental discrimination (blanket bans on tenants receiving benefits or with children are outlawed). Later in 2026, a new Landlord Database and mandatory Ombudsman scheme will follow. Landlord Compliance Navigator walks you through every change and what you need to do.
No. Landlord Compliance Navigator guides you through published regulatory requirements and helps you understand your compliance obligations. It does not provide legal advice, and cannot assess your specific legal position or recommend strategies. For decisions about your specific property or tenancy — such as whether to pursue possession proceedings or how to handle a specific dispute — the Navigator will tell you when you need a qualified solicitor and what questions to ask them. It also tells you when the NRLA helpline or your local council can help.
Landlord Compliance Navigator covers gas safety certificates (CP12, annual), electrical installation condition reports (EICR, every 5 years), Energy Performance Certificates including the Band E minimum and the upcoming Band C deadline in 2030, deposit protection within government-approved schemes, Right to Rent checks, fire safety (smoke alarms on every storey, CO alarms in combustion rooms), the Renters' Rights Act 2025 changes, HMO classification and licensing, eviction grounds under Section 8, Legionella risk assessments, furniture fire safety, and the Decent Homes Standard. All based on published regulations and statutory guidance.
The Renters' Rights Act 2025 applies to England only. However, many of the compliance requirements covered by the Navigator — such as gas safety, electrical safety, EPC, and deposit protection — apply across England and Wales. If you have property in Scotland or Northern Ireland, the Navigator will inform you that separate legislation applies in those nations and recommend checking with your local authority or the relevant housing regulator. The core safety certificate and deposit protection guidance is relevant to landlords across England and Wales.
Absolutely. Landlord Compliance Navigator includes a dedicated journey for new landlords that walks you through everything you need before your first tenant moves in. Over 6 to 8 weeks, it covers obtaining your gas safety certificate, arranging an EICR, getting an EPC, setting up deposit protection, completing Right to Rent checks, installing smoke and CO alarms, preparing an inventory with photographs, and all the documents you need to provide. It gives you a clear checklist at every stage and tells you what each step costs so you can budget properly.
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