Four hard deadlines now sit in front of every private landlord in England — a new tenancy system, a digital tax regime, a national register and an energy standard. Most of what is written about them is either written for lawyers and accountants, or written to rank rather than to inform, with invented dates and penalties nobody has actually set.
These guides are written for a landlord with one to three properties who manages them personally. Every date, threshold and penalty is sourced to the government or HMRC document it comes from, linked and dated — and where government has not published something yet, we say so rather than guessing.
What changed on 1 May 2026, the information-sheet deadline that has already passed, how Section 13 rent increases work now, and what each failure actually costs — including the £4,000 starting point most summaries miss.
Read the Renters’ Rights Act guide ↗ UK-wide · GOV.UK / HMRCWho is in which wave and when, why the threshold is your rent and not your profit, how joint ownership changes the answer, and what quarterly reporting actually involves — written for landlords, not accountants.
Read the Making Tax Digital guide ↗ England & Wales · GOV.UK / DESNZThe standard confirmed on 21 January 2026, why “EPC C” in 2030 is not today’s EPC C, how the £10,000 cap really works, what it costs — and the dated route to compliance that closes on 1 October 2029.
Read the EPC C by 2030 guide ↗ England · GOV.UK Implementation RoadmapThe preparation guide: the record set you will be asked for, the three certificates and where landlords get caught, the marketing prohibition, the penalty tiers — and why nobody can yet tell you your area’s date or the fee.
Read the registration guide ↗ England · GOV.UK · Landlords & tenantsHow a rent increase and a tribunal challenge each work now: Form 4A, the £47 fee, the strict deadline, why the tribunal can no longer set a rent higher than proposed, and what evidence actually persuades.
Read the Section 13 guide ↗ England · GOV.UK Implementation RoadmapThe cornerstone explainer: what the new national landlord and property register is, where it sits in the Act’s phasing, and which penalties are genuinely confirmed versus still unset. Includes a per-area checker for all 294 English local authorities.
Read the PRS Database guide ↗Compliance decisions usually need a number attached — what market rent actually is before you serve a Section 13 notice, what your gross rent adds up to before you work out your Making Tax Digital wave. We publish those free too: city rent guides, the rental yield index, and the citable data page — all from official ONS and HM Land Registry sources, dated and attributed.