The Renters’ Rights Act Implementation Roadmap has been be printed – view it right here.
Advance steering for landlords and letting brokers has additionally been made out there.
To make sure lettings brokers and landlords adjust to their new duties, councils will get New investigatory powers to:
+ get info from landlords, letting brokers and banks or contractors.
+ enter enterprise premises and generally houses to verify compliance.
+ seize paperwork if they think wrongdoing.
+ Expanded powers to penalise offenders:
+ with larger fines for breaches, harder penalties for repeat offenders and strengthened orders for landlords to pay again tenants (lease compensation orders).
+ Native housing authorities will obtain a share of over £18 million extra funding this 12 months to assist them put together for the adjustments, with advance steering to be printed on Friday 14 November 2025.
+ The justice system may even be supported with further funding to make sure the courts and tribunals have the useful resource and capability required to deal with these new reforms. This consists of creating a brand new on-line digital service to simplify the possession course of for landlords and tenants.
The federal government provides that it’ll publish steering for tenants earlier than their new rights kick in on 1 Might 2026.
The federal government has additionally pledged to quickly reply to a session on extending the First rate Houses Normal to privately lease houses, confirming extra particulars on the usual and an implementation timeline.
In the meantime, non-public landlord possession claims utilizing the Part 21 course of which might be going by way of the courts on the graduation date will proceed as regular.
After 1 Might 2026, the courts will nonetheless have the ability to course of Part 21 possessions which might be ongoing, for instance:
+ if a personal landlord served their tenant with a Part 21 discover earlier than 1 Might 2026, they have to start court docket possession proceedings on or earlier than 31 July 2026 when utilizing the Part 21 court docket course of.
+ after this date (31 July 2026), any Part 21 discover the place the owner has not begun proceedings shall be invalid and landlords should use the brand new grounds for possession.
UPDATE: Rental Reform Act implementation roadmap – the whole lot it is best to know
