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May 1 2026 - Renters' Right Act Commencement Day

You have 0 days to:

Serve any final Section 21 notices

Stop accepting above-asking rent offers

Prepare for the rental bidding ban

Remove “No DSS” from adverts

Remove “No Children” from listings

Show one clear rent price

Stop using fixed-term agreements

Switch to periodic tenancy templates

Check which tenancies go periodic

Stop taking rent before signing

Take no more than one month’s rent

Move all evictions to Section 8

Train staff on new notice rules

Create Section 13 process flow

Add two months to rent reviews

File court claims for Section 21s

Update landlord move-in grounds

Update landlord selling grounds

Send the RRA Information Sheet

Create written terms where missing

Update How to Rent processes

Review tenant screening questions

Update pet request processes

Stop backdating rent increases

Discuss rent protection backbooks

Act now before it is too late...

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Jan 29, 2020

Customer experience

Landlords

Tenants

Technology

Letting agents

Win new landlords by providing your tenants with a 24/7 service

A Manchester agency is providing its tenants with round-the-clock service and winning new landlords because of it.

Jan 27, 2020

Customer experience

Tenants

Build-to-rent

Build-to-rent is setting the pace in tenant services

Letting agents and landlords will need to keep up with the lifestyle being offered to tenants by new build-to-rent developments in order to stay competitive in the coming decade.

Jan 21, 2020

Customer experience

Tenants

Meet the agency that's transformed its relationship with its tenants

Homes Partnership is building long-term relationships with its tenants.

Jan 20, 2020

Compliance

Business

Brexit

Brexit: How will the transition period affect your lettings agency?

When the UK leaves the EU on 31st January 2020, it will enter an 11-month transition period, designed to provide time for the details of the new relationship between the UK and the EU to be agreed.

Jan 15, 2020

Compliance

Anti-money laundering

Legislation

Your guide to risk assessing your agency for money laundering with free template

Businesses that are regulated by money laundering legislation need to carry out a risk assessment, to identify where they could be at risk of being used for money laundering. Use our free template as the basis for your agency's risk assessment.

Jan 13, 2020

Customer experience

Technology

Property management

4 ways agencies can improve their property management processes

The Director of Lettings and Sales at one of London's oldest agencies shares why property management has been one of its keys to success and four ways to improve your processes when it comes to looking after your clients' biggest assets.

Jan 8, 2020

Data

Rental Index

Voids

Rents

Affordability

Rental market remains stable over holiday period

Goodlord reveals key figures for the private rented sector in December 2019 based on tenancies processed through our platform, including average rents, tenancy lengths, voidage periods and more, in the Goodlord Rental Index.

Dec 16, 2019

Compliance

Section 21

Lifetime deposits

What happens now? Lettings legislation after the election

The government is likely to forge ahead with its “better deal for renters”, including abolishing Section 21.

Dec 11, 2019

Compliance

Energy efficiency standards

Rent controls

Section 21

RoPA

Make sure your agency is prepared for another decade of legislative change

The private rented sector has undergone immense legislative change in the past decade - will this continue in the next one? We take a closer look in this extract from Goodlord's latest e-book, Dawn of a decade: Lettings in the 2020s.

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