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Governs right to manage, service charge consultation and leasehold enfranchisement.

Creates the assured and assured shorthold tenancy, and sets out the possession grounds in Schedule 2 and the section 8 a...

Part 6 creates the tenancy deposit protection scheme, Part 2 mandatory HMO licensing and Part 1 the Housing Health and S...

Introduced banning orders, the database of rogue landlords and agents, and civil penalties as an alternative to prosecut...

Section 11 sets the landlord repairing obligation, and sections 18 to 30 govern service charges.

Requires customer due diligence and HMRC registration for estate agency business, and for letting agency work above the...

Bans most fees charged to tenants in England and caps tenancy and holding deposits, leaving only a short list of permitt...

Requires a letting agent in England holding client money to belong to an approved Client Money Protection scheme and dis...

Section 83 requires letting agents to publish their fees, and to state their redress scheme and Client Money Protection...

The UK data protection framework applying to tenant referencing, Right to Rent and identity data.

Requires a dwelling to be fit for human habitation at the start of and throughout the tenancy, enforceable by the tenant...

Chapter 1 of Part 3 creates the Right to Rent scheme and the checks an agent must carry out before granting a tenancy.

Includes the right of first refusal on disposal and the appointment of a manager.

Makes unlawful eviction and harassment of a residential occupier a criminal offence, and requires a court order to recov...

Requires an EICR at least every five years, with a copy to the tenant and to the local authority on request.

Governs estate agency work, including disclosure of personal interest and the power to ban unfit persons from estate age...

Creates the Rent Smart Wales licensing regime for landlords and agents operating in Wales.

Restricts ground rent on most new long residential leases to a peppercorn.

Requires every letting and property management agent in England to belong to a government-approved redress scheme.

Governs regulated tenancies granted before 15 January 1989, including fair rent registration.

Prohibits misleading actions and omissions in property marketing, including the omission of material information.

Introduced retaliatory-eviction protection and the prescribed-information and condition requirements that restrict servi...

Requires an annual gas safety check by a Gas Safe registered engineer and a record served on the tenant.

Provides for the Scottish letting agent register, the statutory Letting Agent Code of Practice and the training requirem...