Landlord compliance guides
UK property compliance is spread across dozens of separate duties: the Housing Act 2004 and the Housing Health and Safety Rating System, gas and electrical safety regulations, minimum energy efficiency standards, HMO licensing and management regulations, alarm requirements, and — since 2025 — statutory repair timescales under Awaab’s Law. Almost none of it sits in one place, and a good deal of it is enforced to local standards that vary between councils.
These guides are our attempt to write the page we wish existed for each of those subjects: specific, practical, and honest about what is a hard legal requirement versus what is local policy or good practice. They are free, there is nothing to sign up for, and you are welcome to print them or circulate them inside your team.
The guides
HMO Inspection Checklist for UK Landlords
What a council officer actually looks at during an HMO inspection — room by room, from fire doors and escape routes to amenity ratios, room sizes and waste.
HHSRS: The 21 Hazards Explained (2026 Rules)
The June 2026 reform cut the HHSRS from 29 hazards to 21 and replaced bands A–J with High, Medium and Low. How a home is scored, Category 1 versus Category 2, and a plain-English guide to all 21 hazard categories.
Gas, EICR and EPC: Landlord Certificate Deadlines
Every renewal clock in a UK tenancy — gas safety, EICR, EPC, alarms and Legionella — with who the paperwork goes to, when, and what the penalties are.
Awaab's Law: What Landlords Need to Know
The 24-hour and 10-working-day repair clocks that began on 27 October 2025, what Phase 2 adds from 30 November 2026, and how the consultation on extending Awaab's Law to private tenancies affects you.
Who these are for
England has roughly 4.7 million private rented households. Around 458,855 of them are houses in multiple occupation, of which about 132,246 fall inside mandatory HMO licensing. Whether you let a single flat or manage several hundred units, the same core duties apply — the difference is only how much evidence you have to keep and how quickly you can produce it when a council officer, a tenant’s solicitor or an insurer asks.
Where a duty is set nationally we say so and link to the source on GOV.UK. Where it is set locally — HMO amenity standards are the clearest example — we say that too, and tell you to read your own council’s published standard rather than trusting a number from the internet.
Keep the evidence, not just the knowledge
Hybrid Comply turns the duties in these guides into tracked certificate expiries, HHSRS hazard checks, room-by-room inspections and audit-ready PDF reports — so the proof exists before anyone asks for it. Book a short demo and we will walk through your own portfolio.
Book a demoSomething missing?
We add to this library as the rules change. If there is a compliance subject you would find useful and we have not covered it, email hello@hybrid-hq.co.uk and tell us — we would rather write what landlords actually need.