Information for tenants about the Renters’ Rights Act 2025

Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions will be abolished:

• Your landlord will no longer be able to use Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 to evict you.
  Reformed possession grounds will be fairer for both parties.
• Your landlord will only be able to evict you when they have a specific, legally valid reason, otherwise known as a ‘possession ground’.
• Possession grounds will be extended to make it easier for landlords to evict tenants when they want to sell the property, move into the property or move in members of their family.
• The changes will also make it easier to evict tenants who commit anti-social behaviour. Fixed term tenancies (previously called Assured Shorthold Tenancies, or Assured Tenancies) will be banned.
• Most new and existing tenancies in the private rented sector will become assured periodic tenancies, or ‘rolling tenancies’.
• This means renters will be able to stay in their property until they end the tenancy or until a landlord serves a valid notice to end it or obtains a court/possession order.
• Renters will be able to end the tenancy at any point by giving two months’ notice.

Rent increases limited to once per year:

• Your landlord/letting agency will have to follow the new legal process for increasing the rent.
• This will include providing the tenant with notice, detailing the proposed rent increase at least two months’ before that increase is due to take effect.

Rental bidding will be banned:

• The landlord/letting agency have to include a specific price on any written property advertisement.
• The landlord/letting agency won’t be allowed to ask for, encourage or accept an offer that’s higher.

Requiring large amounts of rent in advance will be banned:

• The landlord/letting agency will only be able to require up to one month’s rent in the period between all parties signing the tenancy and the tenancy starting.
• The landlord/letting agency won’t be able to accept any payment of rent before this period.
• Once the tenancy’s begun, the landlord/letting agency won’t be able to require any payment of rent before it’s due.

Landlords will need to make sure they’ve understood the new rules for tenancy agreements.

Your landlord/letting agency will need to make sure that you give tenants written information about the terms of their tenancy.

• Tenancies that started before 1 May 2026 – there won’t any need to change or re-issue any existing written tenancy agreements. Instead, all your landlord/letting agency will need to do is send a government-produced information sheet before 31 May 2026. The information that your landlord needs to provide to you has been published on GOV.UK.
• Tenancies that start on or after 1 May 2026 – your landlord/letting agent will need to provide you with certain information about the tenancy in writing. They could do this in a tenancy agreement. Information about what information is needed can be found on GOV.UK.

• Landlords/letting agencies won’t be able to do anything to make prospective tenants less likely to rent a property (or prevent them from renting it) because they have children or receive benefits.
• This includes withholding information about a property (including its availability), preventing them from viewing it, and refusing to grant a tenancy.

• Landlords have to consider and respond to your requests within a set timeframe and will have to provide valid reasons if they choose to refuse it.

• Councils, including Salford City Council, as of 27 December 2025 have greater powers to investigate to enforce compliance.
• From 1 May 2025, fines for breaches and offences have increased. There was also an increase in Rent Repayment Orders.

• Landlords must give all tenants an official information sheet explaining how the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 affects their tenancy if their tenancy started before the 1 May 2026.
• The sheet must be downloaded from the official GOV.UK page: The Renters’ Rights Act Information Sheet 2026 - GOV.UK
• Deadline: The information sheet must be provided by 31 May 2026 or landlords may face a fine of up to £7,000.

Landlords must give this information sheet if the tenancy:

• Is an assured or assured shorthold tenancy.
• Was created before 1 May 2026.
• Has a wholly or partly written record of terms (including a written tenancy agreement).

How it must be provided:

• Printed hard copy delivered by hand or posted or
• PDF attachment sent electronically eg email, text message, (do not provide a link to the PDF, as this will not be valid)
• A copy must be given to every tenant named on the tenancy agreement.
• It is advisable to record when, how, and to whom the information sheet was provided.