PropTech UK Build-to-Rent Lettings Management Platform

Renters Rights Act 2025 Compliance

Renters Rights Act 2025 (Royal Assent expected 2025): significant change to UK residential lettings.

Key changes

• 1Section 21 abolition (no-fault eviction ends -- landlord must use Section 8 with grounds),
• 2fixed-term tenancy abolition (all tenancies become periodic -- rolling monthly or weekly),
• 3tenant right to have pets (landlord must give serious consideration, cannot unreasonably refuse),
• 4landlord database (new national database of private landlords -- mandatory registration),
• 5in-tenancy rent increases (annual increases only, 2 months notice, linked to market rent).

ClickMasters BTR platform

built for Renters Rights Act from day 1 -- periodic tenancies, Section 8 grounds workflow, pet request workflow, landlord database API integration.

TDS Deposit Protection API

TDS (Tenancy Deposit Scheme): one of UK's three government-authorised deposit protection schemes.

TDS API integration

• 1deposit registration (within 30 days of tenancy start -- TDS API POST -- tenancy details, deposit amount, tenant details),
• 2prescribed information (tenant receives prescribed information about deposit -- GOV.UK Notify automated -- legally required within 30 days),
• 3end of tenancy dispute (tenant disputes deduction -- TDS adjudication service),
• 4deposit return (landlord agrees return amount -- TDS API deposit return -- funds released within 10 days),
• 5deposit replacement product (Reposit -- tenant pays weekly fee instead of lump sum deposit -- TDS equivalent).

ClickMasters BTR

• all 4,200 tenancies on TDS API -- zero manual deposit registrations.
• GOV.

UK Right to Rent Digital Check

GOV.

UK Right to Rent

landlords must check all tenants have right to live in UK before tenancy starts.

Digital Right to Rent check

• 1UK citizens (GOV.UK Right to Rent digital service -- GOV.UK One Login P9 -- tenant shares digital proof of status),
• 2settled/pre-settled status (UKVI online service -- share code -- landlord enters share code on GOV.UK check service),
• 3biometric residence permit (BRP -- online check via GOV.UK),
• 4manual check (physical document for those without digital -- passport, driving licence),
• 5Right to Rent audit log (all checks logged with outcome -- landlord must retain for tenancy duration + 1 year).

ClickMasters BTR

automated Right to Rent workflow integrated with GOV.UK digital check service.

MEES EPC Compliance and BTR Portfolio

MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) for

BTR

• 1EPC minimum E (from April 2018 -- all new lettings),
• 2EPC D (from April 2027 -- all existing lettings),
• 3EPC B (from April 2030 -- commercial, residential from 2035).

BTR MEES platform

• 1EPC Register API (current EPC per property -- rating, expiry, recommender),
• 2portfolio MEES forecast (which BTR properties will require EPC upgrade -- and when?),
• 3improvement modelling (what investment needed for EPC uplift -- fabric first: insulation, glazing, then

MEP

• heating, ventilation), (4) contractor management (improvement works programme -- contractor procurement, scheduling, completion tracking), (5) EPC reassessment booking (once improvement works complete -- book EPC assessor, track new rating).
• MEES compliance is a BTR investor covenant requirement for institutional BTR funds.