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The Renters’ Rights Act 2025

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The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 represents the most significant change to housing legislation in almost 40 years.

The Act is a pivotal piece of legislation that aims to reform private sector residential tenancies in England and to rebalance the landlord/tenant relationship. The changes brought by the Act will impact anyone directly or indirectly involved in letting residential property.

Our top-rated teams provide strategic, tailored advice to help clients navigate these reforms – ensuring compliance and protecting long-term interests. Whether advising on tenancy agreements, disputes, or long-term estate planning, we help our clients to manage risk and seize opportunities in a changing regulatory environment

Combining deep sector expertise and experience in this area with proactive strategies, we can help you anticipate, adapt, and stay ahead as the Act comes into force on 1 May 2026.

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Landowners and Landed Estates

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 brings major changes to the residential sector. Residential property letting is a key activity for many estates, and estate owners need practical advice tailored to their own unique positions and objectives.

Whether advising on tenancy agreements, disputes, or long-term estate planning, we help our clients to manage risk and seize opportunities in a changing regulatory environment.

Key contact: Kevin Kennedy

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Developers

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 will affect how residential and mixed use schemes are planned, delivered and monetised.

Developers must factor in stronger tenant protections, longer possession and disposal timelines, and higher compliance costs when modelling viability and exit strategies

Key contact: Cat Banton

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Investors

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 introduces sweeping reforms that abolish no fault evictions, strengthen tenant security, and expand regulatory and enforcement powers.

All of these will affect investors’ cash flows, exit timing and asset liquidity across residential and mixed use portfolios.

Key contact: James Sutherland

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Lenders

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 materially changes how lenders manage security over tenanted residential property.

It strengthens tenants’ rights and protections and complicates possession and enforcement processes. Lenders should reassess their risk appetites, valuation assumptions and borrower covenants in advance of the Act coming into force.

Key contact: Sally Jupp

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Student accomodation

The changes brought about by the introduction of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 are intended to provide greater security for all tenants in England, but the changes introduced for student tenancies will balance that security with specific provisions to manage the unique academic year cycle – creating both challenges and new frameworks for operation on landlords.