Section 13 rent increase: did you use the right form and the right notice?
A rent increase on the wrong form, or with too little notice, can be ruled invalid at the tribunal. Since 1 May 2026 that means Form 4A, at least two months' notice, and no more than once a year. We check whether yours holds up, per tenancy, in 72 hours.
Secure Stripe checkout · just the property address · no account. Fixed fee. Signed report within 72 hours of your completed questionnaire. Full refund if we miss it.
Compliance specialists, not solicitors. England only. Court and tribunal work isn't ours to do, and we'll tell you plainly when you've reached that line.
Where a Section 13 notice goes wrong
A rent increase on the wrong form or with the wrong notice period can be challenged at the tribunal, which can rule the notice invalid. The tenant can refer the proposed rent to the First-tier Tribunal for a £47 fee. The tribunal sets the figure, and it cannot set one higher than you proposed.
Since 1 May 2026 every private tenancy in England is periodic, so any rent increase now goes through this process.
Already served something under the new rules? A notice that looked routine when you sent it can come back to you. The question is whether yours was right.
Not served it yet? Start with the number. Rent increase evidence pack, £89.
What we check on your rent increase
- That the notice was on Form 4A, the form the rules now set
- That it gave at least two months' notice
- That it kept to the 52-week gap since the last increase
- Whether any rent-review clause in the tenancy still has any effect
- When and how it was served
Check the rule yourself: the regulations that set Form 4A
What you get
A per-tenancy exposure report. For each tenancy we rate every obligation Compliant, At risk, or Missing, and give you a prioritised list of what to fix first. The report is signed by a named compliance specialist, so you are not left to make sense of an automated flag.
We check, per tenancy:
- Whether your Information Sheet was served correctly, to whom, and in what form
- Whether rent increases used the correct Section 13 process and Form 4A
- Whether any rent-review clause you are relying on still has any effect
- Your deposit protection and prescribed-information trail
- Gas, electrical and EPC certificate service
- Any notice served on a ground that no longer applies
Where something needs putting right, the report says so and tells you what the correction is. Remediation is quoted separately and is not part of the £99.
How it works
1. Order
Give us the property address at checkout. We then check what the public records say about it. That covers the EPC and when it runs out, HMO and council licences, ICO registration, and all three deposit schemes.
2. Answer the short questions
We email them within the hour. What was served, when, and how: the registers can't see inside your filing cabinet, and this is the part that decides your exposure.
3. Signed report in 72 hours
Counted from the moment your answers come back. If we miss it, the £99 is refunded.
Who signs it
Martin Kind. Former quantity surveyor. Portfolio landlord.
The registers and your answers do the heavy lifting; a person decides whether your paperwork holds. Every report is read and signed before it leaves, so the conclusion has a name on it, not an automated flag.
Where we stop
We're compliance specialists, not solicitors, and we don't pretend otherwise. What we do is check your tenancy paperwork against the current rules and tell you where it doesn't hold up. What we don't do is act for you in a dispute. If a matter is heading for a possession claim or a tribunal hearing, that's a solicitor's job. We'll say so and hand you on.
That boundary isn't modesty. It's the reason the report is worth having.
The Tenancy Compliance Exposure Audit
One tenancy, one fixed fee. Your signed report within 72 hours of your completed questionnaire, or your £99 back. No arguing.
Run a book of tenancies? Make the same mistake on ten tenancies and you have ten problems. Email [email protected] about a book-wide audit.
Questions
Do you give me a Section 13 notice template?
No. We check the notice you served, and we tell you if it does not hold up and what the fix is. Putting it right is quoted on its own and is not part of the £99.
Are you a solicitor?
No, and nobody here is. We do unreserved compliance work: audits, correctness review and paperwork checking. None of that requires a solicitor. Anything that does, including court and tribunal steps, goes to a solicitor rather than to us.
Is this legal advice?
No. It's a compliance audit: we check what you've actually done against the current rules and tell you where the gaps are. If you want advice on a specific dispute, you want a solicitor, and we'll point you at one.
What if you find nothing wrong?
Then you have a signed report saying so, which is worth having on file if a tenant ever challenges you.
How fast?
Signed report within 72 hours of receiving your completed questionnaire, or the fee is refunded.