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Find out about tax as a landlord, and how to work out your rental income if you rent out property.
Find out if you’re a letting agency business who needs to register with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Landlord responsibilities when renting out your property, including making repairs, health and safety, increasing the rent and changing regulated tenancies.
You’re a landlord if you rent out your property. As a landlord you must:…
You must keep your property in good condition, and any gas or electrical…
The tenancy agreement should include how and when you’ll review the rent.…
You can often sort out disputes with your tenants without going to court:…
If you let your property to several tenants who are not members of the…
When you rent out property you may have to pay tax. Running a property…
There are special rules for changing rents and terms for regulated…
Guidance for landlords of domestic private rented property on how to comply with the 2018 ‘Minimum Level of Energy Efficiency’ standard (EPC band E).
Find out if someone can rent your private residential property in England.
Renting a room in your home out - Rent a Room Scheme, types of tenancy or licence, rent, bills, tax and ending a letting
Private renting as a tenant - repairs, rent increases and arrears, settling disputes, deposits and your rights and responsibilities.
You must join a redress scheme if you operate as as a residential estate agent, letting agent or in property management.
You must check that a tenant or lodger can legally rent your residential property in England.
Guidance for landlords letting out their home.
You must join a client money protection scheme if you're a property agent in the private rented sector in England and you hold clients' money.
Find out when transactions involving land and buildings are exempt from VAT.
A tenancy agreement is a contract between you and a landlord - ending a tenancy, changing a tenancy, tenancy types and assured shorthold tenancies
Learn more about paying tax and keeping records as a property landlord.
Apply to the tribunal about a rent increase decision, changes to a lease or a decision about a council house, park home or caravan, in England.
Check details of a tenant's right to rent if they’re not a British or Irish citizen and they’ve given you a share code.
A collection of guidance to help landlords, homeowners and letting agents carry out correct right to rent checks and avoid civil penalties.
Information on the requirement for lettings agents and property managers in England to belong to a government approved redress scheme.
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