How To Rent Guide
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has published the updated How to Rent Guide – The Checklist for Renting in England. The new guide must be issued by both letting agents and landlords to new tenants or those renewing.
The new version includes small revisions:
- Approved Identity Service Providers for UK/Irish citizens under Right to Rent
- Mandatory to have a Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarms in a property where there is a combustible gas appliance (excluding a gas cooker)
- Changes to the Code of Practice on Right to Rent to Rent Civil Penalty Scheme for agents and their landlords