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May 1 2026 - Renters' Right Act Commencement Day

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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

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Dec 9, 2019

Customer experience

Landlords

Referrals

Growth

Why good reviews are essential for agencies who want to win new landlords

Reviews are vital to gaining the trust of new landlords, says the co-founder of a multi-award-winning lettings and property management company in Vauxhall, South London.

Dec 5, 2019

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Voids

Rents

Lettings market levels out in run up to Christmas - Goodlord Rental Index

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

Dec 2, 2019

Compliance

Business

Right to rent

Brexit

How could Brexit impact letting agents and the private rented sector?

Uncertainty abounds almost four years after the referendum. We look at how Brexit could impact the PRS in this extract from Goodlord's latest e-book, Dawn of a decade: Lettings in the 2020s.

Nov 29, 2019

Data

Tenants

Brexit

Movement

The areas of London with the biggest drops in EU tenants since 2016

Data compiled by Goodlord has revealed which areas of London have seen the biggest drop in EU citizens taking up tenancies since the 2016 Referendum.

Nov 27, 2019

Compliance

Energy efficiency standards

Section 21

Stamp duty

Lifetime deposits

General election 2019: Your guide to key housing policy proposals

We’ve put together a quick guide to the housing policies announced by the Conservatives, Labour, Green Party, and Liberal Democrats, which include everything from ending "no fault" evictions to increasing minimum energy efficiency standards.

Nov 25, 2019

Marketing

Business

Competition

How Sowerbys is using video to set itself apart from the competition

Sowerbys is using the power of content to stand out in the crowded agency market.

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Nov 19, 2019

Compliance

Landlords

Growth

Four agents discuss why legislation is an opportunity to win landlords

Landlords will be looking to letting agents to manage increasingly complex legislation, so letting agents should be prepared to demonstrate their knowledge.

Nov 18, 2019

Customer experience

Business

Rents

Tenants

It’s a “false economy” to achieve maximum rent at the expense of great tenants

“If you get the tenant right, everything else is much easier,” says the Lettings Director of a leading specialist lettings agency.

Nov 11, 2019

Customer experience

Business

Technology

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Management fees

Why taking a team-based approach to clients is this agency's key to success

Traditional estate agents weren't client-focused and were riddled with inefficiencies, says the founder of London's Madley Property, so he decided to start one of his own and try a different way of doing things.

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