Dear subscribers - well done, we’ve made it to the end of January! The days continue to lengthen and we’ve even been granted a little bit of blue sky and sunshine this week.

Our first newsletter of the year is packed with important information about upcoming changes to legislation and tax regulations which will affect landlords and their agents. From the RRA to EPCs and MTD we have all the acronyms at the ready.

Featured in this edition:

Renters’ Rights Act Deep Dive

EPC Reforms Confirmed

Making Tax Digital for Landlords

Shoreditch Sub-Penthouse Renovation

With the upcoming changes to rental legislation set to affect all landlords, it seemed a good time for An & Kristjan to sit down and chat things through together, so we can share their thoughts and expertise with our wider community.

For written information on the act, you can visit our Renters’ Rights Hub: https://www.baseps.co.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-latest-updates

The UK Government has now published its long-awaited response to the consultation on reforming Energy Performance Certificates and Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards. While some details will follow in secondary legislation, the overall direction is now clear - and landlords can start planning with confidence.

Read more: https://www.baseps.co.uk/blog-posts/epc-reforms-what-landlords-need-to-know.

Making Tax Digital is the government’s new way of reducing the tax gap. This initiative will require landlords who earn over a certain amount of income from their rental properties to use specific softwares for their digital record keeping and quarterly reporting to HMRC.

We will be releasing an informative blog on this very soon, but for now, An and Jack from GC Accountants can keep you up to date in this discussion about tax (it’s more interesting than it sounds, we promise!).

If viewings aren’t converting, what do you do?

We took a Shoreditch sub-penthouse to market in August 2025. Viewings happened. Offers didn’t. At the time, demand from tenants was already starting to soften. In a market like that, a lot of landlords get told the same two things:

We don’t work like that.

Because when a premium rental stalls, the question usually isn’t “how low do we go?”, it’s “what is the market seeing that we’re ignoring?” So Kristjan visited the property in person to understand the friction.

Read the full case study (and see the before/after pictures): https://www.baseps.co.uk/blog-posts/shoreditch-sub-penthouse-refurb-case-study