How we write these guides

These guides explain renting law in England. They are written and maintained by VEYLO X Limited. There is no individual byline on them, and that is deliberate: what should carry weight is the process behind a guide and the law it rests on, not a name at the top.

Who writes them

VEYLO X Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 17203848, registered office 66 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NA. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under reference ZC156986. You can reach the people responsible for these pages at info@veylox.uk.

We are building a platform for renting and letting in England. VEYLO X is not open yet. We are not a letting agent, we are not a law firm, and we are not regulated to give legal advice.

What happens before a guide is published

Every guide goes through the same route, and none of it is optional:

• The topic is chosen from what people are actually searching for, not from what we would like to talk about. Search Console data decides what gets written and what gets improved.
• The law is read at source. Where a guide says what the law requires, the legislation or the GOV.UK guidance is opened and read, not summarised from memory or from another article.
• Two independent checks run before publication. One tests the guide against a written compliance standard, covering consumer protection law, the neutral position we take between landlords and renters, and the things we are not allowed to claim. The other tests whether the guide is honest with the reader: no pressure, no manufactured urgency, no promise a reader could act on and be let down by. A guide that fails either check is fixed or dropped.
• The check is written down. Findings and the verdict are recorded, so a decision can be looked at again later.

How often they are re-checked

Publishing a correct guide is not the same as keeping one correct. Renting law in England changed substantially on 1 May 2026, and we learned the difference the hard way: for several weeks, guides written before that date still described provisions in the future tense that had already come into force.

So there is now a monthly re-check. Every published guide is scanned against the current commencement position of the law it describes, the live pages are fetched and read as a visitor would receive them rather than checked in the repository, and the result is recorded. The date of the last such check appears at the top of every guide. If that date is old, you can weigh the guide accordingly.

When we find a guide has become wrong, we correct it and the review date moves. We do not quietly edit a page and leave the old date in place.

What the guides rest on

Every guide ends with a Sources block listing the primary sources behind it: the legislation on legislation.gov.uk, the guidance on GOV.UK, and where relevant the regulator, such as the Health and Safety Executive on gas safety.

We link to those sources rather than asking you to take our word for it, and the rule we apply to ourselves is the one printed in every Sources block: where the law and a summary disagree, the law is what counts. If you find a guide that conflicts with the source it cites, the source is right and we would like to know, at info@veylox.uk.

What these guides are not

• Not legal advice. They describe what the law says in general. They do not tell you what to do about your own tenancy, and reading one is not a substitute for advice on your own situation. Shelter and Citizens Advice both give free advice in England.
• Not a prediction about you. We do not say what will happen to any application or tenancy, and we do not assess, score or rank anyone.
• Not complete. Renting law is wide and much of it turns on facts we cannot see. A guide covers the general position and says where it stops.
• England only. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own rules, and these guides do not cover them.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us at info@veylox.uk and we will look at it. If it is wrong we will change it, and the review date on that guide will move to the day we checked.