Compliance for landlords
with 1 to 5 properties
Councils don't check how many properties you own before they fine you. Whether you let one flat or five houses, the law expects the same standard as a professional operator with a full compliance team. Compliance Shield gives you that team, from £80 a month.
You're running a regulated business. Around everything else.
Most independent landlords handle compliance themselves, in the evenings, from a folder of certificates and a rough idea of the rules. For years, that mostly worked.
It doesn't any more. Before the Renters' Rights Act, landlords were already navigating 170 pieces of legislation. The Act is the biggest change to lettings in a generation, and it applies to you exactly as it applies to the biggest landlord in your borough. There's no small print exempting people who only let one or two properties. There's just the same rulebook, and less room for error.
A single £7,000 fine wipes out more than a year of profit on a typical single let.
Why independent landlords get caught out.
Nobody tells you the rules changed
The Renters' Rights Act, new licensing schemes, updated regulations. None of it arrives with a letter through your door. Most landlords find out the rules changed when the council does. By then it's enforcement, not advice.
It all runs on your memory
Gas certificates, electrical reports, deposit rules, the right paperwork served at the right time. When compliance lives in a folder and a mental note, one missed renewal means you're letting illegally without knowing it.
One mistake costs more than years of doing it properly
£7,000 for admin mistakes, the easiest penalty to trigger. Up to £40,000 for serious breaches. Up to 24 months of rent repayable to your tenant. With one or two properties, there's no spreading that loss.
Selective licensing can reach your street with almost no warning.
Councils introduce selective licensing scheme by scheme, area by area, often with little publicity. If your property falls inside a new scheme, you need a licence, even if it's the only property you own. Letting without one carries a fine and exposes you to a Rent Repayment Order of up to 24 months of rent. Schemes are spreading fast across the country, and it's your job to know when one lands on your postcode. Or ours, if you'd rather not think about it.
Compliance Shield: your compliance department, from £80 a month.
Compliance Shield tracks every obligation on your property, handles the deadlines, manages licence applications, stores the evidence, and answers your questions with a real expert rather than a chatbot. You stay independent. You just stop being the compliance department too. It costs less per month than an hour of a solicitor's time, and a fraction of a single fine.
A real independent landlord example is coming here.
[Needs a real client example: ideally a one or two property landlord. The HHSRS piece ("How Evidence Turned a £6,000 HHSRS Penalty Into a Conversation") could be adapted here if that client fits the bracket.]
Serious compliance.
Simply done.
You don't need to become a compliance expert to let a property safely. You need one on your side. One missed certificate or one unlicensed month can cost more than years of Compliance Shield.