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He'd used the same tenancy agreement for 15 years. In May 2026 it stopped being legal overnight.

Serve this notice wrong and a judge throws it out — and your tenant stays for months while you start the whole process again from scratch.

£6,800 and a £10,000 cap. That's the price of keeping your rental legal by 2030 — and the clock started the moment the government confirmed the new EPC C minimum on 21 January 2026.

Nine months of voids. That's what one wrong tenancy form cost a Mansfield landlord this year. The Renters' Rights Act came into force on 1 May 2026 and, quietly, it rewrote the rules most new landlords didn't know existed.

Two weeks ago the door slammed shut on no-fault evictions forever. Most local landlords still don't know what replaced it — and that gap in knowledge is already creating real legal exposure.

Same £200k. Wildly different homes. Nottinghamshire's county median sat at £210k in April 2026 — but the gap between the cheapest and most expensive towns is nearly £150k, and most buyers are only looking at half the map.

As of 1 August 2026, that old eviction notice sitting in your drawer is legally worthless. Most landlords across Notts haven't been told yet — and that gap is going to cost some of them dearly.