22 plain-English guides, a competitor comparison, two free checkers and two free handbooks, checked against the 2026 rules — including everything the Renters' Rights Act changed on 1 May 2026.
Nineteen guides in one place — the certificates you need, the deadlines that matter, what the Renters' Rights Act changed, and how to keep more of what you earn.
Download ↓ Free handbook · PDFClient money, redress, AML, the Tenant Fees Act, deposits, possession, the certificates you chase for landlords, and what agents actually charge. Nineteen chapters.
Download ↓You carry two sets of rules: the ones that govern your agency, and the ones that govern every property you manage.
What is in force, the deadlines that have passed, and the penalties that name agents directly.
Read the guide →An honest comparison — the price, the 24-month auto-renewal, and where Alto is genuinely better.
Read the comparison →Thirteen systems with their real published prices, the seven who quote only on request, and where ProPixa loses.
Read the guide →When chasing an enquiry becomes marketing, the five soft opt-in conditions, and what the ICO actually asks on retention.
Read the guide →The checks and records with hard deadlines and five-figure penalties.
Annual check, 28 days to existing tenants, before move-in for new ones, records kept two years.
Read the guide →Every five years, 28 days for remedial work — and the maximum penalty is now £40,000.
Read the guide →Band E is the current minimum. Band C by 1 October 2030 is confirmed policy, not yet law.
Read the guide →One smoke alarm per storey, CO alarms by fixed combustion appliances, working on day one.
Read the guide →Section 11, fitness for habitation, and where the tenant’s responsibility actually starts.
Read the guide →What social landlords must already do, and what is coming to the private rented sector.
Read the guide →Everything the Renters’ Rights Act changed on 1 May 2026, and what it did not.
Thirty days, prescribed information, and the reason an unprotected deposit now blocks possession.
Read the guide →Section 21 is gone. The grounds that replaced it, and the notice each one carries.
Read the guide →Free checker for a section 13 notice — the four date rules, and the deadline to challenge it.
Check a notice →Section 13, Form 4A, two months’ notice, once in twelve — and why the tribunal only goes down.
Read the guide →Twenty-eight days to answer, and consent that cannot be unreasonably refused.
Read the guide →Free calculator. The rule is the later of the two dates, not the earlier — and almost everyone gets it backwards.
Work out my date →The three ways to check, why physical BRPs are dead, and the new Code from 1 October 2026.
Read the guide →What has to be registered, by whom, and why nobody can register yet.
Read the guide →Mandatory, additional and selective licensing — and how to check before you let.
Read the guide →Keeping more of what you earn, and keeping HMRC happy while you do it.
Dates, thresholds, and the digital records HMRC now expects you to keep.
Read the guide →What you can claim against rental income, and the traps in mortgage interest relief.
Read the guide →£7,500 a year, tax-free — who qualifies and how to claim it.
Read the guide →Why home insurance will not pay out, and what a landlord policy actually covers.
Read the guide →If you are new to letting, or choosing the systems you will run it on.
The eight things to sort before your first tenant moves in, in order.
Read the guide →What good software does, what to compare it on, and where the free tools fall down.
Read the guide →ProPixa keeps every property, tenancy, certificate, deposit and repair in one place — and warns you before a deadline, not after. Tenants get a free app. Landlords from £7 a month; agents from £5 per property.
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