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What do I need for this property?

Seven questions about one rented property, and you get the compliance duties that apply to it — how often each one comes round, and the legislation it comes from. All four UK countries, including the three where most of these rules do not reach.

The property

Which country is it in?

Decides most of what follows — the four have different duties.

Only for the new property register, which opens region by region. Leave it blank and no dates are quoted.

Used to work out how many smoke alarms it needs.

Is there a gas appliance?

Gas safety applies only where there is an appliance, pipework or a flue.

Is there a solid fuel appliance?

A wood burner, a coal fire, a biomass boiler.

Is it a house in multiple occupation?

Brings in licensing, fire safety and additional alarms.

If it is an HMO, does the council license it?

Mandatory licensing, or a local additional scheme.

Is it let as a whole, or by room?

Letting by room usually makes it an HMO, and the certificates are shared across it.

Keyring watches these dates for you

This page works out what applies. Keyring does that for every property you manage, then watches the dates, tells you what has lapsed and what is coming, and keeps the evidence that you served it on the tenant.

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Two more pages worth your time: every duty Keyring tracks, and the twenty it does not, and what is changing in lettings law, with the dates.

These are the rules Keyring watches and the instruments they come from. It is not legal advice, and where something could not be confirmed from a primary source it says so rather than guessing.