All tools and guides

Energy rating, flood and planning designations, crime nearby and past sales for an address.

The EPC rating, score and certificate date for any home in England, and how to improve it.

What to check in a tenancy agreement, and the checker in Complete RenterCheck.

For parents and guarantors: check the home, the rent and the agreement before you guarantee it.

The official average rent for any area in England, by bedrooms, and how to judge whether a rent is fair.

The cost of a proposed rent increase, and the rules it must follow.

How much rent you can afford on your salary, and the income agents expect for a rent.

The legal maximum holding deposit and tenancy deposit for a rent.

Rent for part of a month when you move in or out, worked out both ways landlords use.

Split one rent fairly between housemates by room size, en suites and couples.

The most a landlord can take as a tenancy deposit for a rent, and whether yours is over it.

The most Universal Credit or Housing Benefit can pay towards rent at a postcode, and the gap to your rent.

The nearest railway, Underground, DLR, tram and metro stations to a postcode, in a straight line.

Ofcom’s predicted Basic, Superfast and Ultrafast speeds for an address in England.

How to find a home’s council tax band, and what it will cost.

The chance of flooding from rivers, the sea and surface water around a postcode.

Air pollution against the legal limits, and road and rail noise, for a postcode.

Recorded crime around a rented home, compared with the rest of England.

Whether a selective or additional licensing scheme covers a postcode.

Look up the company named on a tenancy agreement at Companies House.

The nearest state schools to a property, with Ofsted and results, and why nearby is not a place.

Is your band too high? Compared with similar homes nearby, with the emails written for you.

Your council tax bill by council and band, a year and a month, with the single person discount.

The nine changes that took effect on 1 May 2026, and what each means for a tenant.

What each referencing company checks, how long it takes, and the income agents usually ask for.

What OpenRent checks, what its payment process protects, and how to rent through it without getting scammed.

An agent on one, usually a private landlord on the other: who holds your money and what to check.

Zoopla takes listings only from agents, and OpenRent is one: how to tell who you are renting from.

Two portals, many of the same homes: what differs for a renter, and what a mismatch can mean.

Rooms or whole homes, lodger or tenant, and what each site charges and checks.

What a portal’s estimate does and does not tell you, and how to check whether a rent is fair.

A smaller payment that does not come back, and the liability that stays with you.

25% off if only one adult counts, and you do not have to live alone to qualify.

What your landlord’s policy will not replace, and why nobody can make you buy cover.

Energy, council tax, water and broadband for a rented home, and how to price a specific one.

Locked out or forced out without a court order: what to do now, and who to call.

One week’s rent, repaid within seven days unless one of four things happened.

What the standard tenancy since 1 May 2026 means, how to leave it, and the information sheet you should have had.

Two months, in writing, ending on the right day — and what you still owe if you go early.

What replaced no fault eviction, what happened to fixed terms, and why an old notice is spent.

What the notice must say, how much notice each ground needs, and why it is not an eviction.

Ask in writing, an answer within 28 days, and what counts as a fair refusal.

An offer accepted, not a tenancy signed: the holding deposit rules and what happens next.

How rental scams work, the checks to make before you pay anything, and what to do if it happens.

How much rent a landlord can ask for upfront since 1 May 2026, the exceptions, and what to do if asked for more.

One advertised rent and no offers above it since 1 May 2026: what counts as bidding, and how to report it.

What referencing looks for, how CCJs and defaults count, guarantors, and what landlords cannot ask.

What the check-in inventory should record, how to correct it, and how it decides your deposit.

Every payment a landlord or agent can charge in England, the caps, and how to get a banned fee back.

Why there is no current government template, and what an agreement in England must include now.

When a shared house needs a licence, what it requires, and how to check.

Average rents and a renting guide for each major city: areas, costs and licensing.

Average rents and how fast they are rising in every council in England, updated monthly.

The cheapest councils, regions and London boroughs to rent in England, updated monthly from the ONS.

The income letting agents usually look for to rent in every council in England, updated monthly from the ONS.

England’s landlord database: when it starts, what it records and what renters will see.

What you can find out about a landlord today, and what the database will add.

When landlord registration opens in each region, and the deadline.

What it means for you, and what you can do about it.

A national record of landlords, and a council permission for certain homes.

For landlords: the dates, the fee and what each entry must hold.

Six ways to find out who owns or lets a property in England.

Your landlord must give you an address in England and Wales for notices. What happens if they don’t.

What HM Land Registry tells you free, and what the £7 title register adds.

What landlord registers exist in England, and how to search each.

How to check your deposit is protected, and what to do if it isn’t.

The gas, electrical, EPC and deposit papers your landlord must give you, and when.

What a landlord gas safety record must cover, and when you get a copy.

When your landlord can put the rent up, the notice they must use, and how to challenge it.

How to challenge a rent increase at the First-tier Tribunal: form MR1, the fee, the evidence and the decision.

25 questions for a viewing, about the rent, costs, landlord, repairs and tenancy.

Everything to do from the holding deposit to your first month in the home.

Who gets checked, how share codes work, and what to do if you can’t prove it yet.

How to get a share code on GOV.UK, how long it lasts, and what to do if it doesn’t work.

How much notice a tenant gives, and how much a landlord must give for each reason.

The steps to renting your first home, what it costs upfront, and what to check before you sign.

Who counts as one, what they can and can’t do, and how to add someone to a tenancy.

Which you are, and what it changes: notice, eviction, deposits and rent rises.

When you have leverage, the evidence that backs a lower offer, and an example email.

Why renters can’t search it, and what you can check about a landlord instead.

Which bills are yours and which are the landlord’s, and roughly what each costs.

Whether you should pay before you’ve seen a home, the rules, and the scam signs.

What letting agents check, the documents to have ready, and what happens if you fail.

How long each shows up, what referencing finds, and the ways to still get a yes.

Why you no longer need one to leave, what happened to old ones, and leaving early.

The electrical check your landlord must do every 5 years, and the report you should get.

Who can be one, what they sign, how long they’re liable, and renting without one.

Help from your council when benefits don’t cover the rent, now called a Housing Payment.

Who to tell, what you pay at each home, and refunds.

What replaced the government’s How to Rent guide, and what landlords must give you now.

How to get up to 2 years’ rent back from a landlord who broke the law.

Your main rights as a private renter, from signing to moving out, in one place.

What a landlord must fix, including boilers and heating, how fast, and what to do if they don’t.

Who must fix it, how to report it, and where Awaab’s Law stands for private renters.

What a landlord can deduct, fair wear and tear, and how to dispute deductions for free.

The alarms a landlord must fit and check, and what to do if they haven’t.

Halls, student houses and private lets: tenancies, guarantors, bills and scams.

Renting in England when you’re moving from overseas: right to rent, references and rent in advance.

The new private landlord ombudsman, and how to complain about a landlord now.

The minimum E rating, exemptions, fines and the band C plan for 2030, for landlords and renters.

The standard private rented homes will have to meet, and what applies today.

The free route, the evidence that works, and why your band can go up as well as down.

The neighbour check, the 1991 values, and when a challenge is worth it.

What every band costs in every council in England this year, and who the money goes to.

Whether the tenant or landlord pays, and why shared houses are different.

Everything Complete RenterCheck includes, shown for a made-up home.

What we check, and what we will not claim.

What each check costs and includes, side by side.

Run the free check from an AI assistant.

Area facts on rental listings, with the free check one click away.

Every dataset we use, who publishes it and its limits.

Who we are and what we will not do.

Have the links to your Complete RenterCheck reports emailed to you.

How we use personal information.

The little we store in your browser, and why.

The terms for using RenterCheck and buying a report.