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We cover Making Tax Digital (MTD) and the day-to-day of running a let, updated whenever the rules change on GOV.UK. 145 guides and counting.
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If you let a UK property while living overseas, the rent that lands in your account has usually already been through another pair of hands. Who deducts the basic rate of tax, the £100 a week rule that puts the job on your tenant, what NRL1 approval really changes, and the cost nobody counts.
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The previous landlord will not reply, and the government has just confirmed it has no plans to make them. What the minister actually said, which alternative checks prove what, and where each one still leaves you exposed.
Your tenant enters the Debt Respite Scheme and your arrears claim stops for 60 days. What the moratorium actually blocks (grounds 8, 10 and 11), the rent they must still pay, and the 20-day window to challenge it.
The Renters’ Rights Act broke the student letting calendar. Fixed terms are gone, and Ground 4A only works if you signed the tenancy no more than six months before the students moved in — which rules out the traditional autumn signing season.
Most buy-to-let stock is leasehold, and a leaseholder landlord sits between two sets of rules that can contradict each other: your lease and the Renters’ Rights Act. Subletting consent, service charges, Section 20 major works, and the pet clause problem.
How to spot tenant fraud before you hand over the keys — fake payslips, made-up employer and landlord references, borrowed ID and guarantor fraud, and the checks that catch them.
Which fire door rules actually apply to your HMO — the 11-metre line catches most landlords out — what an FD30 door needs to pass, and how to tell a useful survey from an expensive one.
A squatter is not a tenant, and the route is completely different. Squatting in a residential building is a criminal offence, so the police can act. For everything else there is the Interim Possession Order or a claim against trespassers — and one rule that never changes: never force entry yourself.
Guaranteed rent sounds effortless — until the licensing, mortgage and insurance liability lands on you. And from 1 May 2026 the Renters' Rights Act extends Rent Repayment Orders to superior landlords, so the owner can now be pursued too. How R2R works, what changed, and how to vet a deal.
Your tenant has quietly put the property on Airbnb or moved someone else in. What that breaches, why it puts your mortgage, insurance and lease at risk, the evidence to gather, and how possession actually works under Ground 12 — without doing anything unlawful yourself.
When a tenant on Universal Credit falls behind, you can apply for the housing element to be paid straight to you — plus a deduction towards the arrears. The UC47 form has gone: this is the Apply for Direct Rent Payment service, the two-month trigger, the vulnerability route, and what it will not fix.
A disrepair counterclaim is the most common way a Section 8 possession claim gets derailed — because damages set off against the arrears can drag them below the Ground 8 threshold and collapse your mandatory ground. How counterclaims work, what actually defeats them, and the records that decide it.
You are not locked in forever. Check the notice period and the continuing-commission trap first, then the clean handover: deposit, certificates, keys, tenant data and rent records. What to get from your agent, and how to self-manage or move to a new one without dropping a compliance ball.
You can screen tenants — but how you screen is limited by the Equality Act 2010 and the Renters' Rights Act 2025. Why "No DSS" and "No children" are unlawful, the nine protected characteristics, Right to Rent without race discrimination, and how to screen lawfully on affordability.
Winning possession does not get your money back — the arrears are a separate money claim. How to use Money Claim Online, the court fees, getting a County Court Judgment, and the four ways to enforce it (bailiffs, attachment of earnings, charging order, third-party debt order) — plus when it is worth it.
Tenants increasingly ask for EV charging. When you need planning permission (usually you don't), the landlord chargepoint grant (75% up to £500 per socket from April 2026), the infrastructure grant, freeholder and lease consent, who installs and owns it, and whether the numbers stack up.
Landlords handle a lot of tenant personal data — referencing, ID, bank details, Right to Rent copies — so UK GDPR applies to you. ICO registration and the data protection fee, choosing the right lawful basis, the privacy notice, how long to keep data, subject access requests, CCTV and breach reporting.
From 1 May 2026 every new Assured Periodic Tenancy in England must start with a written statement of key terms served on the tenant. It sits alongside the RRA 2025 Information Sheet (which replaced the withdrawn How to Rent guide), deposit Prescribed Information, gas safety, EPC and Right to Rent. What the written statement must contain, and how it fits with everything else.
Rent reporting services promise to build a tenant’s credit score by sending on-time rent payments to Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. In 2026 the main options are CreditLadder, Canopy, Experian Boost and (through banking) Rental Exchange. Do they work — and is there anything in it for landlords?
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