Renters’ Rights Act Compliance
Section 21 is gone and every AST is periodic. What the Act requires of landlords and agents, and what runs it.
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UK and Irish Compliance Guides
Practical, current-year guides to the regulations and schemes that shape UK and Irish property management. Renters Rights Act, Making Tax Digital, Part V, cost rental, HAP. Built for landlords, letting agents, AHBs, and local authorities.
UK
UK regulation guides
The Renters Rights Act 2025 is now in force. These six guides cover every workflow change for English landlords and letting agents.
Section 8 Grounds 2026
With Section 21 abolished for private assured tenancies in England on 1 May 2026, every possession case now relies on a Section 8 ground. The Renters...
Read guide →PRS Database Registration
The PRS Database is the national register of private landlords and rented homes in England, created by the Renters' Rights Act 2025. It opens on 15...
Read guide →Decent Homes Standard PRS
The Decent Homes Standard has applied to social housing since 2001. The Renters Rights Act 2025 creates the power to extend it to private rented homes,...
Read guide →Awaab's Law for PRS
Awaab's Law came into force for social housing on 27 October 2025. The Renters Rights Act 2025 contains the power to extend it to the private...
Read guide →Right to Rent Checks
Every landlord and letting agent in England must check that each adult who will live in a property as their only or main home has the...
Read guide →MTD ITSA for Landlords
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD ITSA) applies from 6 April 2026 to landlords and sole traders with qualifying income over £50,000, from...
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Ireland
Irish scheme software
Sector software pillars for the schemes that drive Irish social and affordable housing: LDA cost rental, AHB Tier 1, HAP, and cost rental tenant journeys.
LDA Cost Rental
The Land Development Agency delivers cost rental at scale through state-owned and partner-developed sites. LDA cost rental tenancies have specific eligibility, rent-setting, and reporting rules. Rentalize...
Read pillar →Tier 1 AHB
Tier 1 Approved Housing Bodies, those managing under 50 units of social housing, have specific Regulator obligations under the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act...
Read pillar →HAP Landlord Onboarding
Housing Assistance Payment is the principal route through which Irish local authorities support private rental tenancies. Onboarding a landlord to HAP requires verification, council registration, and...
Read pillar →Cost Rental Tenant Journey
Cost rental applicants in Ireland navigate a multi-step journey: eligibility check, application, supporting documentation, allocation, offer acceptance, and move-in. Rentalize ships a tenant-facing portal that handles...
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UK
Licensing and hazard duties
Property licensing and statutory hazard response, the two areas where enforcement and penalties rose most under the Renters Rights Act 2025.
HMO licensing and free licence checker
Mandatory, additional and selective licensing compared, plus the rules for 3, 4 and 5 tenant shares.
Read guide →Selective licensing
How councils designate areas, the full exemption list, temporary exemption notices, fees and penalties.
Read guide →Awaab's Law
Statutory timescales for hazards in social housing, and the Phase 2 expansion on 30 November 2026.
Read guide →MTD for joint landlords
The threshold applies to each owner's share, not the property, plus the two reporting easements.
Read guide →MTD for non-resident landlords
When MTD applies from abroad, the two automatic exemptions, and how it sits alongside the NRLS.
Read guide →Compliance built into the platform
Rentalize builds in the records and checks these rules turn on: RTB, the 2026 rent cap, Part 4, BER, HAP tenancies and S.I. 137 in Ireland; safety certificates, deposits and periodic tenancies in England, with rent and categorised expense records that export to CSV for filing in HMRC-recognised software.
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