Letting agent redress scheme (17 figures)
The Letting Agent Statutory Obligations carries 17 published figures read from 8 sources' own pages, from 7 to 30 day, read 11 November 2026.
- 37 to 11
- 311 to 15
- 115 to 19
- 19 to 22
- 22 to 26
- 1026 to 30
Bands
| Bucket | Value |
|---|---|
| 7 to 11 | 3 figures |
| 11 to 15 | 3 figures |
| 15 to 19 | 1 figure |
| 19 to 22 | 0 figures |
| 22 to 26 | 0 figures |
| 26 to 30 | 10 figures |
13 of the 17 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 11 November 2026.
By obligation and cap or penalty
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| obligation deposit-protection-window | 30 day | 30 to 30 day | 2 |
| obligation deposit-return-window | 10 day | 10 to 10 day | 2 |
| obligation variation-fee-cap | 50 GBP | 50 to 50 GBP | 2 |
| obligation late-rent-threshold | 14 day (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation late-rent-interest-cap | 3 % (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation late-payment-fee-cap | 50 GBP (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation tenant-notice-period | 2 month (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation holding-deposit-deadline | 15 day (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation holding-deposit-refund | 7 day (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation epc-cost-cap | 3,500 GBP (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation epc-exemption-period | 5 year (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation right-to-rent-check | 28 day (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation rent-review-period | 52 week (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation ground-4a-notice | 2 month (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation deposit-cap | 5 week (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation rent-increase-notice | 2 month (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation pet-request-period | 28 day (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation redress-scheme-penalty | 5,000 GBP (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation client-notification | 14 day | 14 to 14 day | 2 |
| obligation notice-of-intent-period | 6 month | 6 to 6 month | 2 |
| obligation representations-period | 28 day | 28 to 28 day | 2 |
| obligation penalty-payment-period | 28 day | 28 to 28 day | 2 |
| obligation appeal-period | 28 day | 28 to 28 day | 2 |
| obligation financial-penalty-max | 30,000 GBP (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation deposit-cap-threshold | 50,000 GBP (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| obligation epc-minimum-standard-cost-cap | 3,500 GBP (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| cap or penalty epc-maximum-penalty-per-property | 5,000 GBP (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
| cap or penalty epc-non-compliant-letting-3-months-or-more | 4,000 GBP (one figure) | one figure, no range | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
The sentence each figure was read from (36)
- legislation.gov.uk: enacted, read 2026-11-07:
the amount of six weeks’ rent, where the annual rent in respect of the tenancy immediately after its grant, renewal or continuance is £50,000 or more,
- legislation.gov.uk: 386, read 2026-11-07:
(6) The final notice may not be varied under sub-paragraph (5) so as to make it impose a financial penalty of more than— £30,000, in respect of a breach of regulation 3; or
- GOV.UK: redress-scheme-estate-agencies, read 2026-11-11:
You may be fined up to £5,000 and have your licence revoked if you do not join a redress scheme.
- GOV.UK: domestic-private-rented-property-minimum-energy-efficiency-s, read 2026-11-07:
up to £2,000 and/or publication for failure to comply with a compliance notice The maximum amount you can be fined per property is £5,000 in total.
- GOV.UK: domestic-private-rented-property-minimum-energy-efficiency-s, read 2026-11-07:
They are: up to £2,000 and/or publication penalty for renting out a non-compliant property for less than 3 months up to £4,000 and/or publication penalty for renting out a non-compliant property for 3 months or more up to £1,000 and/or publication for providing false or misleading information on the PRS Exemptions Register
- GOV.UK: domestic-private-rented-property-minimum-energy-efficiency-s, read 2026-11-07:
The cost cap: you are not currently required to spend more than £3,500 (including VAT) on energy efficiency improvements.
- GOV.UK: domestic-private-rented-property-minimum-energy-efficiency-s, read 2026-11-07:
If you cannot improve your property to EPC E for £3,500 or less, you should make all the improvements which can be made up to that amount, then register an ‘all improvements made’ exemption.
- legislation.gov.uk: made, read 2026-11-07:
(2) A notice served by the landlord under section 13(2) of the 1988 Act (increase of rent under assured tenancies other than relevant low-cost tenancies)(12) on or after 1st May 2026 may not propose a new rent to take effect before the end of the period of 52 weeks beginning with the day on which the increase in rent referred to in paragraph (1) took effect.
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act-2019-statutory-guidance-for-enforcement-auth, read 2026-11-07:
a fee to change the tenancy when requested by the tenant capped at £50 or reasonable costs if the amount is above £50
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act-2019-statutory-guidance-for-enforcement-auth, read 2026-11-07:
The expectation is that the charge should not exceed £50 unless the reasonable costs are higher.
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act, read 2026-09-12:
payments capped at £50 (or reasonably incurred costs, if higher) for the variation, assignment or novation of a tenancy
- GOV.UK: deposit-protection-schemes-and-landlords, read 2026-11-07:
You (or your letting agent) must put your tenants’ deposit in the scheme within 30 days of getting it.
- GOV.UK: tenancy-deposit-protection, read 2026-09-12:
Your landlord or letting agent must put your deposit in the scheme within 30 days of getting it.
- GOV.UK: check-tenant-right-to-rent-documents, read 2026-11-02:
If the tenant is only allowed to stay in the UK for a limited time, you need to do the check in the 28 days before the start of the tenancy.
- GOV.UK: implementing-the-renters-rights-act-2025-our-roadmap-for-ref, read 2026-11-07:
require landlords in the PRS to consider tenant requests to rent with a pet – landlords will have an initial 28 days to consider their tenant’s request, and they will have to provide valid reasons if they refuse it.
- legislation.gov.uk: 386, read 2026-11-07:
The property agent may, within the period of 28 days beginning with the day after that on which the notice of intent was served, make written representations to the local authority about the proposal to impose a financial penalty on the agent.
- legislation.gov.uk: 386, read 2026-11-07:
(3) The final notice must require the penalty to be paid within the period of 28 days beginning with the day after that on which the notice was served.
- legislation.gov.uk: 386, read 2026-11-07:
(2) An appeal under this paragraph must be brought within the period of 28 days beginning with the day after that on which the final notice was served.
- legislation.gov.uk: body, read 2026-11-07:
“relevant period” means the period of 28 days beginning with the day after that on which the final notice in respect of the previous penalty for the breach was served; where
- legislation.gov.uk: made, read 2026-11-07:
A person on whom a notice of intent is served may within 28 days beginning with the day after the date on which the notice was sent make written representations and objections to the enforcement authority in relation to the proposed imposition of a monetary penalty.
- legislation.gov.uk: made, read 2026-11-07:
information about the period in which the payment must be made, which must not be less than 28 days;
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act-2019-statutory-guidance-for-enforcement-auth, read 2026-11-07:
The default deadline for signing a tenancy agreement after paying a holding deposit is 15 days after the landlord or letting agent receives the holding deposit.
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act-2019-statutory-guidance-for-enforcement-auth, read 2026-11-07:
If the tenant is late in paying their rent, a landlord or agent may charge for payment that has been outstanding for 14 days or more.
- legislation.gov.uk: 386, read 2026-11-07:
be given to each established client within 14 days of the event mentioned in paragraph (2); and
- legislation.gov.uk: body, read 2026-11-07:
be given to each established client within 14 days of the event mentioned in paragraph (2); and
- GOV.UK: deposit-protection-schemes-and-landlords, read 2026-11-07:
The deposit must be returned to your tenants within 10 days of you both agreeing how much they’ll get back.
- GOV.UK: tenancy-deposit-protection, read 2026-09-12:
Your landlord must return your deposit within 10 days of you both agreeing how much you’ll get back.
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act-2019-statutory-guidance-for-enforcement-auth, read 2026-11-07:
This has to be within 7 days of the landlord’s decision to not grant a tenancy agreement or the expiry of the deadline for the agreement.
- legislation.gov.uk: 386, read 2026-11-07:
within the period of 6 months beginning with the last day on which the breach occurs.
- legislation.gov.uk: made, read 2026-11-07:
(2) The notice of intent must be served within 6 months of the date on which the enforcement authority is first satisfied that the person has failed to comply with article 3 (requirement to belong to a redress scheme: lettings agency work) or article 5 (requirement to belong to a redress scheme: property management work).
- GOV.UK: domestic-private-rented-property-minimum-energy-efficiency-s, read 2026-11-07:
Register this exemption if the property is still below EPC E after improvements have been made up to the cost cap (£3,500 incl VAT), or there are none that can be made. This exemption lasts 5 years.
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act, read 2026-09-12:
a refundable tenancy deposit capped at no more than 5 weeks’ rent where the total annual rent is less than £50,000, or 6 weeks’ rent where the total annual rent is £50,000 or above a refundable holding deposit (to reserve a property) capped at no more than 1 week’s rent
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act-2019-statutory-guidance-for-enforcement-auth, read 2026-11-07:
The daily interest must not be more than the annual percentage rate of 3% above the Bank of England’s base rate.
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act-2019-statutory-guidance-for-enforcement-auth, read 2026-11-07:
For an Assured Periodic Tenancy, the maximum amount of notice a tenant can be required to give is 2 months.
- legislation.gov.uk: made, read 2026-11-07:
It temporarily reduces the notice period for Ground 4A from 4 to 2 months for notices served between 1st May 2026 and 30th July 2026 (inclusive) in relation to existing tenancies.
- GOV.UK: implementing-the-renters-rights-act-2025-our-roadmap-for-ref, read 2026-11-07:
limit rent increases to once a year in the PRS – landlords will have to follow the revised section 13 procedure and provide the tenant with a notice detailing the proposed rent increase at least 2 months before it is due to take effect.
Read in full, publishes no figure
4 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- legislation.gov.uk: contents, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK: right-to-rent-document-checks-a-user-guide, read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK: electrical-safety-standards-in-the-private-rented-sector-gui, read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK: how-to-rent, read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
13 of the 17 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 4 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in day (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 17 figures, never sentences; 66 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per obligation per nation - client money protection, redress scheme membership, the permitted-payment cap, the holding-deposit cap, the deposit cap and the 30-day protection window, right to rent, the EPC minimum standard and its cost cap, electrical safety inspection, the How to Rent duty, and the Renters' Rights Act commencements - each quoted from the statute or the department's own guidance with the date it took effect and the maximum penalty; the derivation is the DIFFERENCE table: what an agent must do in England that it need not in Scotland, and the feature a software product must therefore have to serve both, which is what turns a compliance list into a software-choice answer
66 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (17)
- legislation.gov.uk: 386(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- legislation.gov.uk: body(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: tenant-fees-act-2019-statutory-guidance-for-enforcement-auth(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- legislation.gov.uk: enacted(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: tenancy-deposit-protection(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: deposit-protection-schemes-and-landlords(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: implementing-the-renters-rights-act-2025-our-roadmap-for-ref(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- legislation.gov.uk: contents(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- legislation.gov.uk: made(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: right-to-rent-document-checks-a-user-guide(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: check-tenant-right-to-rent-documents(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: electrical-safety-standards-in-the-private-rented-sector-gui(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: domestic-private-rented-property-minimum-energy-efficiency-s(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: how-to-rent(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: redress-scheme-estate-agencies(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- legislation.gov.uk: made(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Letting Agent Statutory Obligations carries 17 published figures read from 8 sources' own pages, from 7 to 30 day, read 11 November 2026.
13 of the 17 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation deposit-protection-window: median 30 day across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation deposit-return-window: median 10 day across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation variation-fee-cap: median 50 GBP across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation late-rent-threshold: median 14 day across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation late-rent-interest-cap: median 3 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation late-payment-fee-cap: median 50 GBP across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation tenant-notice-period: median 2 month across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation holding-deposit-deadline: median 15 day across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation holding-deposit-refund: median 7 day across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation epc-cost-cap: median 3,500 GBP across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation epc-exemption-period: median 5 year across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation right-to-rent-check: median 28 day across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation rent-review-period: median 52 week across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation ground-4a-notice: median 2 month across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation deposit-cap: median 5 week across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation rent-increase-notice: median 2 month across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation pet-request-period: median 28 day across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation redress-scheme-penalty: median 5,000 GBP across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation client-notification: median 14 day across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation notice-of-intent-period: median 6 month across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation representations-period: median 28 day across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation penalty-payment-period: median 28 day across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation appeal-period: median 28 day across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation financial-penalty-max: median 30,000 GBP across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation deposit-cap-threshold: median 50,000 GBP across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, obligation epc-minimum-standard-cost-cap: median 3,500 GBP across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, cap or penalty epc-maximum-penalty-per-property: median 5,000 GBP across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
Letting Agent Statutory Obligations, cap or penalty epc-non-compliant-letting-3-months-or-more: median 4,000 GBP across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
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Questions this data answers
What does the law oblige a UK letting agent to do, what does it cap, and from what date in each nation?
The Letting Agent Statutory Obligations carries 17 published figures read from 8 sources' own pages, from 7 to 30 day, read 11 November 2026.
Where do the figures in the Letting Agent Statutory Obligations come from?
Every figure is quoted from its source's own page and dated (last read 11 Nov 2026). 17 named sources were read and 13 publish a figure; the 4 that publish none are recorded as not published, never estimated.