Is your tenancy compliant with the new Renters' Rights Act?
On 1 May 2026 every tenancy in England changed. Fixed terms — void. Section 21 — abolished. Rent review clauses — unenforceable. New mandatory paperwork — already overdue. Council fines reach £7,000.
Built for self-managing landlords — the ones with no agent to tell them what changed. Find out where you stand in 2 minutes. Free.
No email required · a short set of questions tailored to your situation · Every answer cites the law, so you can check us
- No sign-up, no email
- Nothing stored — it runs in your browser
- Built from official gov.uk guidance
- Updated July 2026
What changed — and what it costs to get wrong
Council fines
Councils can impose a penalty of up to £7,000 for missing paperwork or unlawful practices — up to £40,000 for repeat or serious offences. Housing Act 1988 s.16I
Deadline already passed
Landlords had until 31 May 2026 to serve tenants the required written information. Many still haven't — and don't know.
Your old agreement
Fixed terms and rent review clauses in existing agreements are now unenforceable. Relying on them exposes you.
What you get
The 2-minute compliance check
- Around 15 plain-English questions about your tenancy
- Every gap found, ranked by how serious it is
- What the law now requires, in each case
- Results on screen — no email, no account
Most landlords finish it in under two minutes and find at least one thing they didn't know about.
The document pack
- Step-by-step fix for every issue you scored
- Written Statement of Terms (new mandatory format)
- Late-information letter for missed deadlines
- Rent increase kit — Form 4A walkthrough + letter
- Pet request response letters (28-day rule)
- Possession grounds cheat-sheet (post-Section 21)
- Compliance calendar, plus 12 months of updated documents as the Act rolls out
Two folders \u2014 Get-Compliant + Regain-Possession \u2014 editable Word files · 14-day refund, no questions asked
The gov.uk checklist is free. So why is this £29?
Fair question, and we'd rather answer it than dodge it. The government checklist tells you what the rules are. It doesn't tell you which ones you have broken, and it doesn't hand you the documents to put them right.
What you're paying for is the two days of reading already done, and seven editable Word files you'd otherwise have to write yourself \u2014 organised into two folders: Get-Compliant (the mandatory paperwork) and Regain-Possession (the eviction route). Whichever one brought you here, the other is included. Every finding in the check cites the statute and links straight to legislation.gov.uk, so you can verify any of it in about thirty seconds — including before you pay.
If the free route is enough for you, genuinely use it: gov.uk's overview for landlords. The check on this page is free either way.
There are £10 tenancy templates all over the internet. Why not just buy one of those?
Because a template answers a question you haven't asked yet. A £10 agreement template assumes you already know which document you need, for which tenancy, and by when. The landlords getting fined right now are the ones who didn't know the 31 May 2026 information sheet existed at all, or who put the rent up with a clause that stopped working on 1 May.
The order matters: the free check tells you which of your obligations you've actually missed, and the pack then gives you the document for each one. Buying a template first is buying the answer before you know the question.
The other difference is what happens next. The Act rolls out in phases — the private rented sector database from late 2026, landlord sign-up to the new ombudsman expected 2028 — so a document bought today can stop being compliant without you hearing about it. Your £29 includes 12 months of updated documents as those phases land. One payment, every property you own, no subscription.
Who is behind this?
LandlordAudit is built and run by Ryan Doherty, working solo, in England. I'm not a landlord and I'm not a solicitor — I build tools.
This one started as a favour. A friend of mine lets out several properties, English isn't his first language, and he asked me to help him work out what the Renters' Rights Act actually required of him. It took days. The obligations are real and mostly clear once you find them, but they're scattered across a dozen gov.uk pages, commencement dates and statutory instruments, and nothing tells you which ones apply to your tenancy. When I went looking to check my own reading, I found forum after forum of English landlords — people with no language barrier at all — asking the same questions and getting the same contradictory answers. So rather than let the research die in a folder, I built it into something anyone can run in two minutes.
What that means in practice: every finding links to the actual section of law it comes from, so you don't have to take my word for anything — click it and check for yourself. If you spot something wrong, email hello@landlordaudit.co.uk and I'll read it myself. And if you buy the document pack and it isn't useful, email within 14 days and I'll refund it. No questions.
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