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UK material information checklist (lettings)

Educational, not legal advice. This is a working checklist for what to establish and state in a UK lettings listing. It does not tell you what the law requires for a particular property. If in doubt, ask your redress scheme, your professional body (for example Propertymark or Safeagent), or a solicitor.

Where the rules stand (checked 2026-09-23)

  • The NTSELAT guidance was withdrawn. National Trading Standards' Estate and Letting

Agency Team published *Material Information in Property Listings* in three parts: Part A (early 2022) and Parts B and C (30 November 2023), with separate versions for sales and for lettings. It was built on the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. When Part 4, Chapter 1 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 came into force on 6 April 2025 and replaced those Regulations, the guidance was withdrawn (Propertymark, 9 May 2025).

  • The duty did not go away. Under the DMCC Act, omitting or obscuring material

information a consumer needs to make an informed decision is an unfair commercial practice. Industry bodies advise agents to keep working to the A/B/C standard until new guidance exists.

  • New guidance is in progress. The government consulted on material information for

residential sales from 28 September to 21 December 2025; lettings are to be considered separately. [VERIFY: gov.uk / NTSELAT for any guidance published since, and whether a lettings version exists yet]

  • Renters' Rights Act 2025 (England). From 1 May 2026, adverts must state the proposed

rent, and a landlord or agent may not invite or accept offers above it. [VERIFY: gov.uk Renters' Rights guidance]

  • Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own letting rules; the checklist below is

a UK-wide working standard, not a statement of any nation's law.

We use the old Part A/B/C structure because it is still the clearest way to organise the work, and it is the structure the industry already works to.

Sources: nationaltradingstandards.uk (guidance announcement, 30 Nov 2023, and the lettings PDF v1.0); propertymark.co.uk ("Material Information guidance withdrawn as the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act takes over", 9 May 2025); legislation.gov.uk (DMCC Act 2024; Renters' Rights Act 2025).

Part A: state it in every listing

  • [ ] Rent, and how often it is payable (pcm or per week), stated as a single figure.
  • [ ] Deposit amount (and whether a holding deposit applies, with its amount).
  • [ ] Council tax band (or rate in Northern Ireland; "exempt" where it is), or say that it is included.
  • [ ] No invitation to bid above the stated rent (England, from 1 May 2026).

Part B: establish for every property

  • [ ] Property type: house, flat, maisonette, room in a shared house, HMO, bungalow, park home.
  • [ ] Construction: standard (brick or stone with a slate or tile roof) or, if not, what it is.
  • [ ] Rooms: number and type, with measurements (or a floor plan with measurements).
  • [ ] Electricity supply: mains, or what else (for example solar with battery, generator).
  • [ ] Water supply: mains, or private supply.
  • [ ] Sewerage: mains, or septic tank, cesspit or treatment plant.
  • [ ] Heating: type (gas central heating, electric storage, heat pump, oil) and fuel.
  • [ ] Broadband: type available (for example FTTP, FTTC) and an indication of speed; say where the figure came from (for example Ofcom's checker).
  • [ ] Mobile signal and coverage: any known problems.
  • [ ] Parking: allocated, on-street, permit, garage, none; any cost.

Part C: establish, and state if it applies

  • [ ] Building safety: known issues such as unsafe cladding, risk of collapse, or asbestos.
  • [ ] Restrictions: conservation area, listed building, tree preservation orders, and any lease or title restriction that affects a tenant (for example no pets, no subletting, no business use).
  • [ ] Rights and easements: public rights of way, shared driveways, access rights.
  • [ ] Flood risk: flooding in the past five years and the source (river, sea, groundwater, surface water); defences.
  • [ ] Coastal erosion risk.
  • [ ] Planning permission or proposals affecting the property or its immediate area, where known.
  • [ ] Accessibility and adaptations: step-free access, lift, wet room, ramps, handrails.
  • [ ] Coalfield or mining area.

Lettings extras (good practice; some are separate legal duties)

  • [ ] EPC rating in the advert (the energy performance rules require it where an EPC is needed). [VERIFY: gov.uk EPC guidance for rentals]
  • [ ] HMO licence status where the property is an HMO.
  • [ ] Available from date.
  • [ ] Furnished, part-furnished or unfurnished.
  • [ ] Bills: which, if any, are included in the rent.
  • [ ] Permitted payments only. Letting agents in England cannot charge tenants fees beyond those the Tenant Fees Act 2019 permits.
  • [ ] Tenancy type: from 1 May 2026 most new tenancies in England are periodic assured tenancies; do not advertise a fixed term that can no longer be granted. [VERIFY]
  • [ ] Pets: say how requests are considered (the Renters' Rights Act gives tenants in England a right to request a pet that may not be unreasonably refused). [VERIFY]

How to collect it without chasing

  1. Send the landlord this list at instruction, before photos.
  2. Anything they do not know: check it yourself (council tax, flood risk, broadband and

mobile checkers, conservation-area maps) and note the source and date.

  1. Anything still unknown: say so in the listing ("Not known at time of listing") rather than

leaving the field out, and update it when you know.

  1. Re-check at every re-let. Broadband, planning and flood information change.

Where Loftfolio fits (optional reading)

Loftfolio's UK listings have material-information fields built in. No other country's listing rules are built in, and the fields do not make a listing compliant on their own: what goes in them is yours to establish. What Loftfolio does not do