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This guide explains what fees landlords can ask for when renting out a property.
This guide explains what rules landlords need to follow when they ask a tenant to pay rent at different stages of the tenancy.
Information about annual rent increases limit from April 2025
Information about annual rent increases limit from April 2026
To help tenants and landlords understand what is expected under the consumer standards and how landlords might deliver the outcomes of the standards.
Outcomes landlords must deliver about the safety and quality of tenants’ homes.
This guide explains the process on how a landlord can end a tenancy if their tenant wants to leave.
Outcomes landlords must deliver about being open with tenants and treating them with fairness and respect so that tenants can access services, raise complaints, influence decision making and hold their landlord to account.
The definition of what is a decent home and guidance on how the decent homes standard should be implemented.
Guidance for landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts in England.
This guide covers the procedures that landlords must follow when they need a tenant to leave their property.
Outcomes social landlords must deliver about the fair allocation and letting of homes and how tenancies are managed and ended by landlords.
Outcomes landlords must deliver about engaging with other relevant parties so that tenants can live in safe and well-maintained neighbourhoods and feel safe in their homes.
This guidance delivers on the government’s commitment in response to the Coroner’s 'prevention of future deaths' report on the death of 2-year-old Awaab Ishak due to mould in the home.
This guide for landlords explains what rental discrimination is.
This guide explains how landlords cannot discriminate against a person from renting a property because they are on benefits.
Information and advice on the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) and consents for disposal of land from the Housing Revenue Account.
What is involved in regulatory judgements and gradings
This guide explains what a landlord can do when a tenant commits antisocial behaviour.
A detailed guide on how to apply for registration with RSH
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