For UK letting agents, landlords & inventory clerks
Five guides covering the things that actually go wrong at either end of a tenancy: deposit deductions that get reduced at adjudication, paperwork that changed on 1 May 2026, and the tax that catches landlords out.
All free, no sign-up, no email wall. Each one is checked against GOV.UK and legislation.gov.uk, and says when it was last reviewed.
What you can fairly claim at check-out. The apportionment formula adjudicators actually apply, the lifespans normally assumed for carpets, paint, white goods and furniture, and three worked examples including one where the fair claim is nothing at all.
Open the guide →The sections a report needs to stand up in a deposit dispute, why photographs alone are not evidence without dates and item-level condition, and how the check-in and check-out compare.
Open the guide →Assured shortholds ended for new lettings in England on 1 May 2026. What replaced the AST template, what happened to the agreements you already had, and which clauses no longer do anything.
Open the guide →Section 21 was abolished in England on 1 May 2026. The Section 8 grounds that replaced it, the notice periods each one carries, and the transitional window that closed on 31 July 2026.
Open the guide →How rental profit is actually worked out for 2026/27, what Section 24 did to mortgage interest relief, which expenses are allowable, and where incorporation does and does not help.
Open the guide →The current SDLT bands plus the five-point surcharge, the two separate three-year rules that are routinely confused, the flat 17% company charge above £500,000, and how to reclaim.
Open the guide →If you want to see what a finished report looks like before reading anything else, this is a real one with the property details removed — room-by-room condition, item-level detail and timestamped photographs, in the format deposit schemes expect.
These are reference guides, not interactive calculators sitting on this page. Where an interactive tool exists — the deposit deduction calculator is the main one — the guide links straight through to it, and you do not need an account to use it.
They are also not legal or tax advice. Deposit adjudication turns on the evidence put in front of it, and tax turns on your own circumstances. Every guide names its sources so you can check the primary material yourself, and gives the date it was last reviewed so you can tell whether it has kept up.
They exist because the same questions come up constantly from the letting agents and inventory clerks we work with, and the answers are scattered across GOV.UK, scheme guidance and legislation.
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