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Renters' Rights Act: 84.7% of Landlords Run Rolling Tenancy Agreements, 90% Skip Solicitor Review

Platform data show 84.7% of landlords in the sample with a current tenant now hold at least one rolling tenancy. 79% use rolling tenancies only, and another 5.7% run both types. Ended ASTs were the default before the Renters' Rights Act. A separate survey found 90% of surveyed landlords used their most recent agreement with no solicitor review.

Renters' Rights Act tenancy paperwork

Platform snapshot 6 Sep 2026. Base: 5,235 Lendlord accounts approved for disclosure, each with a tenant in place. 15,622 tenancies in that sample. Survey fielded 8 to 14 Sep 2026. Source: Lendlord production records and a landlord survey.

Platform data · The live book, today

Rolling is already the default, not just the trend

This analysis covers 5,235 Lendlord accounts approved for disclosure that had at least one current tenant at the snapshot. Between them they hold 15,622 tenancies, about three each. Every share, split and chart below is a percentage of that sample.

79%
rolling only · Group 1 · share of this cut
5.7%
both rolling and fixed · Group 2 · share of this cut
14.5%
fixed-only book · Group 3 · share of this cut
  • 79% rolling only (group 1)
  • 5.7% both types (group 2)
  • 14.5% fixed-only book (group 3)
  • 0.8% no tenancy type recorded
  • Sampled landlords

    79% rolling only (group 1): 79%5.7% both types (group 2): 5.7%14.5% fixed-only book (group 3): 14.5%0.8% no tenancy type recorded: 0.8%

Current tenancies

15,622
Current tenancies
86.1%
Rolling
12.3%
Fixed
1.6%
Not recorded

Key findings, platform data

  1. Platform cut: 79% of this cohort with a current tenant use rolling tenancies only, and another 5.7% run both types.
  2. 86.1% of the tenancies in that sample are already rolling.
  3. Only 14.5% of this cohort still run a fixed-only book.

  • Key shares

    5,235 Lendlord accounts approved for disclosure, each with a tenant in place. Rolling only 79%, both types 5.7%, fixed only 14.5%, not recorded 0.8%.

  • Caveat, source

    A sample of the live book, not the full UK market. Shares can overlap for "at least one" metrics. Source: Lendlord production, snapshot 6 Sep 2026.

Two datasets, one story

What changed, and what didn't

The live book shows the law change worked as intended: landlords stopped issuing fixed lets almost as soon as the rules required it. The survey shows the paperwork underneath that shift didn't keep pace. Read together, the two datasets say the same thing from different angles: the format changed fast, the legal certainty behind it did not.

79%
of this cohort with a current tenant now use rolling tenancies only, with another 5.7% running both types · platform cut
90%
of surveyed landlords used their most recent agreement with no legal check · landlord survey

Platform data · The cliff after commencement

Fixed share, indexed to the October 2025 peak

October 2025 fixed share (31.3%) is set to 100. By August 2026 the index sits at 2.9, an absolute share of 0.9%. The shaded band marks the period after the Renters' Rights Act commenced.

  • Jan 25

    Fixed-share index: 44.4

  • Feb 25

    Fixed-share index: 63.3

  • Mar 25

    Fixed-share index: 45

  • Apr 25

    Fixed-share index: 44.7

  • May 25

    Fixed-share index: 66.8

  • Jun 25

    Fixed-share index: 60.7

  • Jul 25

    Fixed-share index: 73.8

  • Aug 25

    Fixed-share index: 88.5

  • Sep 25

    Fixed-share index: 72.5

  • Oct 25

    Fixed-share index: 100

  • Nov 25

    Fixed-share index: 71.2

  • Dec 25

    Fixed-share index: 68.7

  • Jan 26

    Fixed-share index: 46

  • Feb 26

    Fixed-share index: 37.4

  • Mar 26

    Fixed-share index: 35.5

  • Apr 26

    Fixed-share index: 26.2

  • May 26

    Fixed-share index: 9.3

  • Jun 26

    Fixed-share index: 3.5

  • Jul 26

    Fixed-share index: 12.5

  • Aug 26

    Fixed-share index: 2.9

  • Sep 26

    Fixed-share index: 6.4

Source: Lendlord production, snapshot 6 Sep 2026.

Key findings, platform data

  1. Fixed share of new lets fell from an index of 100 in Oct 2025 to 2.9 by Aug 2026.
  2. From 31.3% to 0.9%: the fixed-term cliff on the platform.

  • Key numbers

    Peak 31.3% in Oct 2025 (index 100). Latest full month 0.9% in Aug 2026 (index 2.9). Act commencement 1 May 2026.

  • Caveat, source

    Fixed share = fixed / (rolling + fixed) among live tenancies by start month. Cohort proxy, not a longitudinal flip series. Source: Lendlord production, snapshot 6 Sep 2026.

Survey · What landlords told us

The paperwork behind the switch

A landlord survey asked how they got their most recent agreement, whether a lawyer had reviewed it, and what would make them trust the legal wording. Figures below are rounded shares of respondents. Raw sample and completion counts are not published here; full methodology is available to press on request.

~90%
had their most recent tenancy agreement with no legal check at all. Survey
~45%
got that agreement straight from their letting or managing agent. Survey
~1 in 4
said solicitor review is what would make them trust it's legally safe, the single most common answer to that question. Survey
~91%no review
~91% no review
91%
~9% yes, original template or this tenancy
9%
~45%agent supplied
~45% letting or managing agent
45%
~23% free download or online template
23%
~8% Lendlord's own agreement tool
8%
~24% paid template, reused AST, or other write-in
24%
~47%
Trust the agent's paperwork
~32%
Assume a standard template is fine
~26%
What would build confidence: a lawyer look
~19%
Not sure what would help

Key findings, survey

  1. Around nine in ten used their most recent agreement with no legal check.
  2. Almost half, around 45%, got that agreement from their letting or managing agent. Around 47% said they simply trust the agent's paperwork.
  3. Asked what would make an agreement feel legally safe, around a quarter said a solicitor review, more than any other single answer.

  • In their own words

    "If it were approved by a legal, insured entity."
    "A solicitor checking it."
    "Reviewed by a solicitor or checked online for what is needed."

  • Caveat, source

    Self-reported. Figures are rounded shares of respondents to a landlord survey, fielded 8 to 14 Sep 2026. Full sample and completion counts available to press on request.

From the CEO

Aviram Shahar, co-founder and CEO of Lendlord, on what the two datasets mean together. Usable in full or in part with attribution.

Landlords did the hard part. 79% of the landlords in our sample now run rolling agreements only, eleven months after the fixed term was the default.

The document underneath hasn't moved. Around nine in ten told us no solicitor reviewed the agreement they rely on. A periodic tenancy has no end date, so that agreement is now the only place the notice grounds and deposit terms are written down. Getting it reviewed is the cheapest gap a landlord can close this year.

Aviram Shahar, Co-founder and CEO of LendlordAviram ShaharCo-founder and CEO, Lendlord

Data Insights

Post Renters' Rights Act numbers. Each line names its dataset.

Platform

Fixed starts collapsed from 31.3% of new lets in October 2025 to 0.9% by August 2026. The Act commenced on 1 May 2026.

Platform

Today, 79% of this cohort with a current tenant use rolling tenancies only and 5.7% run both types. 86.1% of the tenancies in that sample are rolling.

Survey

Around nine in ten used their most recent agreement with no legal check at all.

Survey

Around a quarter said a lawyer look is what would make them trust the wording today, more than any other answer.

Platform and survey

Landlords complied with the letter of the law almost overnight. The survey suggests most did it on paperwork that letter was never checked against.

How this was built, and what it cannot tell you

  • Platform data

    • Base. 5,235 Lendlord accounts approved for disclosure, each with at least one current tenant, and the 15,622 live tenancies they hold (status Actual), snapshot 6 September 2026. Every platform figure on this page is a percentage of that sample, not a headcount.
    • No true flip history. Nothing in the underlying records captures the moment a tenancy changed from fixed to rolling, so the charts are cohort proxies built from start date, not a longitudinal series.
    • Self-reported field. Fixed vs rolling is whatever the landlord entered in Lendlord, not a legal determination.
    • Partial period. The most recent month in each series is incomplete.

  • Survey data

    • Population. Lendlord users shown the survey automatically in the web app, 8 to 14 September 2026.
    • Self-reported. Legal check and agreement source reflect what the respondent believes, not a verified legal check.
    • Rounded, not raw. Every figure above is a rounded share of respondents. Sample size and completion counts are not published on this page and are available to press on request.
    • No personal data. No names, emails, or user identifiers were retained or used in this analysis.

Keep the two sources captioned separately: platform figures for tenancy type, the survey for the paperwork. They are not the same measurement. Do not merge them into one statistic.

Where Lendlord sits in this

The old AST default is gone, and most of the agreements replacing them have not had legal eyes on them. Lendlord's agreement generator is free to use and solicitor-backed, producing a Renters' Rights Act periodic agreement landlords can customise and download.

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