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Free Landlord Tools, Section 8 Ground Picker, Section 13 Calculator & AST→APT Wizard
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AST → APT Transition Wizard
Your existing AST converts to a periodic assured tenancy at midnight on 1 May 2026. Find out exactly what changes, in plain English.
Section 13 Rent Calculator
Check that your proposed rent increase passes the 12-month rule, the one-per-year cap, and the tribunal market-comparison test.
Deposit Protection Checker
Confirm which approved scheme you need, the 30-day window, and what the prescribed information actually has to include.
Section 8 Ground Picker
Answer 2 to 3 questions and instantly see which Section 8 ground applies to your situation, notice period, mandatory or discretionary, pre-conditions, and evidence tips.
Notice Validity Checker
Pick your notice, ground and service date, and get the earliest valid expiry date, deemed service by post, and void-form warnings for Section 21, Form 3 and Form 4.
Deposit Cap Calculator
Check the maximum tenancy and holding deposit you can legally take under the Tenant Fees Act, plus the 30-day protection deadline and the penalties for missing it.
Compliance Diary
Enter your certificate dates once and get free email reminders 30 days and 7 days before every gas, EICR, EPC and licence deadline. No account needed.
Which tool should I start with?
If a tenant is not paying rent or you need the property back, start with the Section 8 Ground Picker. Since Section 21 was abolished on 1 May 2026, a Section 8 ground is the only statutory route to possession in England, and each ground carries its own notice period, from no minimum at all (Ground 7A, serious anti-social behaviour) up to 4 months (Grounds 1 and 1A). The picker reads those periods from the same verified dataset our templates are generated from.
Raising the rent? The Section 13 Rent Calculator checks the flat 2-month notice minimum that now applies to every periodic tenancy, the one-increase-per-year rule, and the Form 4A requirements before you serve anything. And if you are simply not sure where you stand after the AST-to-APT conversion, the Transition Wizard gives you a plain-English map of what changed for your tenancy.
How these tools stay accurate
Every statutory figure the tools rely on, notice periods, the deposit cap of 5 weeks’ rent (6 weeks above £50,000 a year), the 30-day protection window, the Section 8 grounds table, comes from a single verified source file checked against the legislation.gov.uk text of the Housing Act 1988 as amended by the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. When the law changes, the source file changes, and every tool and template updates together. Nothing here is a marketing quiz: no sign-up, no email gate, and each result links to the exact template or pack that acts on it, so you can go from “what do I serve?” to a completed, compliant document in one sitting.
Deadlines are the other half of compliance. The Compliance Diary turns your gas safety, EICR, EPC and licence dates into free email reminders, and the Notice Validity Checker works out deemed service and the earliest valid expiry date before a defective notice costs you months at court.
Information only, not legal advice. Every output tells you the next template or pack to use from our shop.