Tenancy agreement checker

Upload your agreement and get every problem cited to the Act and the section — not a vague warning. Free to check, no account needed.

Renters' Rights Act 2025 changes, the deposit cap, prohibited fees. Subscribers get the full findings and a corrected, signable document.

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Read and deleted, unless you tell us to keep it.

Not legal advice. Results are based on current UK housing legislation.

What we check your agreement for:

✓ Leftover Section 21 or fixed-term clauses (both abolished 1 May 2026)
✓ Renters' Rights Act 2025 compliance
✓ Prescribed deposit information requirements
✓ Section 8 possession grounds and notice periods
✓ Rent increase mechanism (Section 13 only)
✓ Repair and maintenance obligations
✓ Safety obligations (gas, electrical, smoke, CO)
✓ Right to Rent check reference
✓ Fair terms under Consumer Rights Act 2015

What the check actually looks for

Every finding cited to the Act and sectionNot "this clause may be unenforceable". The finding names the statute — Tenant Fees Act 2019, Housing Act 2004 s.213, the Renters' Rights Act 2025 — so you or your solicitor can go and read it.
Renters' Rights Act 2025 coverageFixed terms and break clauses no longer apply to tenancies granted from 1 May 2026, and section 21 is abolished. Agreements written for the old regime are full of clauses that no longer do anything, and some that are now prohibited.
Deposit capFive weeks' rent where annual rent is under £50,000, six weeks at or above it. Over-cap deposits are one of the most common findings and one of the easiest to get wrong when rent changes.
Prohibited paymentsThe Tenant Fees Act 2019 permits a closed list of payments. Anything else — admin fees, referencing, inventory charges, cleaning as a condition — is prohibited, and the clause requiring it is unenforceable.
Fix My AgreementProduces a corrected version of your agreement as a signable PDF, with the problem clauses rewritten. Included in every subscription, not an add-on.

Same AI. Better sources.

A general model answers from what has been written about your council. We answer from what your council actually designated — with the date and the wards — and where we have not established it, we say so instead of guessing.

We use the same models you do. We have not trained anything. The difference is entirely in what we point them at, and in what we refuse to let them say.

We checked all 317 councils by hand. Nineteen were wrong.
Published lists are confidently out of dateA competitor's “complete list” of licensing schemes shows Sheffield and Hyndburn as active. Both expired in 2023. The same list misses County Durham's scheme entirely — roughly 29,000 properties. A model trained on pages like that will repeat them, fluently.
We read the instrument, not the summaryCroydon's own website said its new scheme starts 25 September 2026. Croydon's section 80 designation notice says 1 September. We publish the designation date and record the conflict, because twenty-four days of letting unlicensed is a criminal offence and a rent repayment order.

Three things a chat window cannot do

It does not know when something changesCroydon designated a new scheme on 25 March. Salford's additional scheme lapsed on 19 July with no renewal published. We caught both. A conversation you had last month cannot.
It has no memory of your propertiesIt cannot know your gas certificate expires in November unless you tell it again, every time. We hold the date and email you at sixty days, thirty and seven.
It will not be wrong in a way you can checkA plausible paragraph with no source cannot be verified or challenged. Every claim we make about a council links to that council's own document and quotes the sentence it came from — so you can check us, and so can your solicitor.

Common questions

Is my tenancy agreement still legal after the Renters' Rights Act?

Possibly not in full. From 1 May 2026 every new tenancy is periodic, so fixed terms and break clauses have no effect, and section 21 no longer exists. An agreement drafted before that will usually contain clauses that are now inoperative, and may contain prohibited payment terms. The check reads your document and names the ones that are a problem.

What does the free check show me?

The number of issues found and the most serious one, with the legislation it comes from. The full findings and the corrected document require a subscription. Nothing is invented to pad the count — a clean agreement returns a low number and says so.

How much can a deposit be?

Five weeks' rent where the annual rent is under £50,000, and six weeks' rent where it is £50,000 or more, under the Tenant Fees Act 2019. A holding deposit is capped at one week's rent. Deposits must be protected in an approved scheme and the prescribed information served within 30 days.

What is Fix My Agreement?

It generates a corrected version of your agreement as a signable PDF, with the problem clauses rewritten to comply. It is included in both subscription tiers rather than sold separately.

Why not just ask ChatGPT whether I need a licence?

You can, and it will answer fluently. The problem is the source: a general model answers from what has been written about your council, not from what your council designated. We read the designation itself — the date, the wards, the section of the Housing Act it was made under. We hold an established position for 315 of the 317 councils in England and Wales, each read from the designation itself. For the other 2 we say we do not know, rather than reporting "no scheme" for a council nobody has checked.

Do you use AI, or have you trained your own model?

We use the same models you do and we have not trained anything. What differs is grounding: the models are pointed at councils' own designation notices and at the legislation, and they are not permitted to state a date, fee or area that does not appear in the source document. Where the source says nothing, the answer is that we do not know.

What can you do that a chat window cannot?

Three things. It does not know when something changes — Croydon designated a new scheme on 25 March 2026 and Salford's additional scheme lapsed on 19 July with no renewal published, and we caught both. It has no memory of your properties, so it cannot know your gas certificate expires in November unless you retell it every time. And it will not be wrong in a way you can check: we cite the instrument, so you can verify any claim we make.

How current is your council licensing data?

We track all 317 councils in England and Wales. Councils we publish a position for are re-checked on a rolling schedule, councils with a live consultation are checked twice a week, and a weekly integrity job flags any record that contradicts itself or has gone stale. Every council page shows the source document and the date we last verified it.

Checking a property rather than an agreement? Run the free compliance check or look up your council's licensing position.

Information tool, not legal advice.

Landlord HQ uses AI to analyse legislation and tenancy agreements. While we work hard to ensure accuracy, AI can make mistakes. Always verify compliance requirements with a qualified solicitor. Landlord HQ is an information tool, not legal advice.

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