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Do I have to give my tenant my home address?

Guide · about 21 min read · Covers the law in England as at November 2026 · Reviewed on 1 November 2026

Sometimes, and it depends which duty you are looking at. The written statement of terms and the service address both ask for an address in England and Wales at which notices may be served on you by the tenant, and neither says it has to be where you live: paragraphs 1 and 3 of the Schedule to S.I. 2026/324, and section 48(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. Two other duties are stricter: section 47(1)(a) asks for the address of the landlord on a written rent demand, and on a written request under section 1(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, section 38 of that Act defines an address as a person's place of abode or place of business, or a company's registered office. Giving no service address has a price: section 48(2) treats any rent, service charge or administration charge otherwise due as not being due until you comply, subject to section 48(3).

This guide covers England only and private assured tenancies. It is general information and not legal advice. There is more on how VEYLO X works for landlords.

What exactly does the law make me give the tenant?

What has to be given	Where the requirement sits
Your name, and each name where two or more people are jointly the landlord	Paragraph 1 of the Schedule to S.I. 2026/324
An address in England and Wales at which notices may be served on you by the tenant	Paragraph 3 of the Schedule to S.I. 2026/324
An address in England and Wales for service, furnished to the tenant by notice	Section 48(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
The name and address of the landlord, on a written rent demand	Section 47(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
Your name and address, on a written request from the tenant	Section 1(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985

Section 16D(1) of the Housing Act 1988 provides that the section applies to an assured tenancy other than a tenancy granted by implication, after an implied surrender of a previous assured tenancy between the same parties, where the implied surrender and grant result from an agreement to vary the terms of the previous tenancy. Section 16D(2) provides that the landlord under a tenancy to which the section applies must give the tenant a written statement of such terms of the tenancy as are specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State, and any other information in writing required by those regulations. Section 16D(4) provides that, subject to subsections (5) to (7), the statement must be given before the tenancy is entered into.

Regulation 2 of S.I. 2026/324 applies to assured tenancies to which section 16D applies, except social housing assured tenancies, and provides that the terms and information which must be included in the written statement are set out in the Schedule to those Regulations. Paragraph 1 of the Schedule prescribes the name of the landlord under the tenancy and, where two or more persons jointly constitute the landlord, the name of each of them. Paragraph 3 prescribes an address in England and Wales at which notices, including notices in proceedings, may be served on the landlord by the tenant.

There is a penalty attached to the statement itself. Section 16I(1)(a) of the Housing Act 1988 allows a local housing authority to impose a financial penalty on a person it is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt contravened section 16D, and section 16I(6) provides that the amount must not be more than £7,000.

Section 16D does not reach every letting, and this is the part most easily missed. Paragraph 7(1)(a) of Schedule 6 to the Renters' Rights Act 2025 provides that section 16D and section 16E(1)(f) of the Housing Act 1988 do not apply where an existing tenancy is wholly or partly in writing. An existing tenancy is not simply a tenancy that is running now. Section 146(3) of that Act defines it as an assured tenancy entered into before the commencement date, and defines the commencement date as the day on which Chapter 1 of Part 1 comes into force in accordance with section 145 for the purposes of the tenancy the reference relates to.

Paragraph 7(1)(b) then requires section 16I(1) to be read as referring instead to a contravention of paragraph 7(2) of that Schedule, which is the duty on the landlord under such a tenancy to give the tenant the information in writing about the changes made by that Act which regulations require, before the end of the period of one month beginning with the commencement date. Regulation 3 of S.I. 2026/324 prescribes that information as the version for the time being of the document entitled The Renters' Rights Act Information Sheet 2026.

Paragraph 7(5) provides that where an existing tenancy is wholly oral, section 16D(4) is read as requiring the statement before the end of that same one month period. Which of the two duties applies to a particular tenancy is not a question this guide answers.

What else the Schedule prescribes, and the rest of what goes in the statement, is covered in the written statement of terms.

Can I use my letting agent's address instead of my own?

For the written statement of terms, and for the section 48(1) service address, the wording does not ask for your home address. The rent demand and the written request are the two that are different. Section 47(1)(a) asks for the address of the landlord, and there is authority on what that means. Section 1(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 asks for the landlord's address on request, and section 38 of that Act defines the word.

Paragraph 3 of the Schedule to S.I. 2026/324 and section 48(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 both use the same shape of words: an address in England and Wales at which notices, including notices in proceedings, may be served on the landlord by the tenant. Neither says the address has to be where the landlord lives.

Section 47(1) is worded differently. It provides that where any written demand is given to a tenant of premises to which Part VI applies, the demand must contain the name and address of the landlord, and, if that address is not in England and Wales, an address in England and Wales at which notices, including notices in proceedings, may be served on the landlord by the tenant. Section 47(4) provides that demand there means a demand for rent or other sums payable to the landlord under the terms of the tenancy.

So paragraph (a) of section 47(1) asks for the address of the landlord, and paragraph (b) adds a service address only where that address is outside England and Wales.

So two of the three are settled: neither paragraph 3 nor section 48(1) requires the address to be where the landlord lives. The one that is not is the rent demand, and there the Upper Tribunal has construed paragraph (a). In Beitov Properties Ltd v Martin [2012] UKUT 133 (LC) the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) dismissed an appeal and held that a demand which gave the landlord's name but the address of its managing agents did not contain the name and address of the landlord as section 47(1) requires.

The address required is the place where the landlord is to be found, which in the case of a company is its registered office or a place from which the company carries on business, and the Tribunal said that the fact that communications could be sent to the agents' address was nothing to the point. It also noted that section 48 makes separate provision for an address for service, so section 47 is not satisfied merely by giving an address at which the tenant can communicate.

What that test produces for any particular landlord or any particular address is not a question this guide answers, and a landlord minded to put an agent's address on a rent demand should take advice before doing so.

What happens if I never give an address for service?

The rent is treated as not being due until you comply. Section 48(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 provides that a landlord of premises to which Part VI applies shall by notice furnish the tenant with an address in England and Wales at which notices, including notices in proceedings, may be served on him by the tenant.

Section 48(2) provides that where a landlord fails to comply with subsection (1), any rent, service charge or administration charge otherwise due from the tenant to the landlord shall, subject to subsection (3), be treated for all purposes as not being due from the tenant to the landlord at any time before the landlord does comply. Section 48(3) takes that away in relation to any time when, by virtue of an order of any court or tribunal, there is in force an appointment of a receiver or manager whose functions include the receiving of rent, service charges or administration charges from the tenant.

The wording matters in one practical way. Section 48(1) is complied with by notice, so it is something given to the tenant rather than something merely true. An address a tenant could have found elsewhere is not the same as an address furnished by notice.

That does not mean a separate document headed section 48 notice is necessarily required. What subsection (1) asks for is that the landlord furnish the tenant with the address by notice, and it does not prescribe a form for it, so the information may be given in a tenancy agreement or in another document. Whether a particular document did furnish the address by notice depends on its wording and on the circumstances, and that is not a question this guide answers.

Section 46(1) sets the reach of Part VI. It applies to premises which consist of or include a dwelling and are not held under a tenancy to which Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 applies. Section 46(1A) provides that the Part does not apply if the dwelling is in Wales and is subject to an occupation contract.

Whether a particular document amounted to a notice under section 48(1), and what the position is for rent already paid, are questions this guide does not answer. A landlord who may not have complied should take advice.

Does a written rent demand have to carry my name and address as well?

Yes, and the consequence of leaving it out is narrower than the one above. Section 47(1) sets out what the demand must contain, and section 47(4) defines a demand as a demand for rent or other sums payable to the landlord under the terms of the tenancy.

Section 47(2) provides that where such a demand does not contain information required by subsection (1), then subject to subsection (3) any part of the amount demanded which consists of a service charge or an administration charge is treated for all purposes as not being due from the tenant to the landlord at any time before that information is furnished by the landlord by notice given to the tenant. Section 47(3) takes that away in relation to any time when a court or tribunal appointment of a receiver or manager whose functions include receiving those charges is in force.

The distinction is easy to lose. The consequence in section 47(2) attaches to the service charge or administration charge part of the amount demanded, not to the rent. The consequence that attaches to rent is the one in section 48(2), and it follows from failing to furnish an address for service rather than from what any demand contains.

Can my tenant simply ask me for my name and address?

Yes, in writing, and the answer is due within 21 days. Section 1(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 provides that if the tenant of premises occupied as a dwelling makes a written request for the landlord's name and address to any person who demands, or the last person who received, rent payable under the tenancy, or to any other person for the time being acting as agent for the landlord in relation to the tenancy, that person shall supply the tenant with a written statement of the landlord's name and address within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which he receives the request.

Note where the duty lands. It falls on the person who demanded or last received the rent, or on an agent, so it can fall on a letting agent rather than on the landlord.

Section 1(2) provides that a person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with subsection (1) commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale. Level 4 is £2,500 for an offence committed on or after 1 October 1992, under the standard scale set out in section 122(1) of the Sentencing Act 2020. Older summaries of this offence cite section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982, which was repealed on 1 December 2020 by the Sentencing Act 2020.

Section 1(3) provides that in that section and section 2, tenant includes a statutory tenant, and landlord means the immediate landlord. What counts as a reasonable excuse is not something this guide answers.

The word address is defined, and this is the part that bears most directly on the question in the title. Section 38 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 provides that in that Act, address means a person's place of abode or place of business or, in the case of a company, its registered office.

So the address a section 1 request produces is not the open-ended service address that paragraph 3 of the Schedule and section 48(1) ask for. What that definition produces for any particular landlord, including one who has no place of business, is not a question this guide answers, and it is the question to put to an adviser.

What if I let through a limited company?

Section 2(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 provides that where a tenant is supplied under section 1 with the name and address of his landlord and the landlord is a body corporate, the tenant may make a further written request to the landlord for the name and address of every director and of the secretary of the landlord. Section 2(2) provides that the landlord shall supply a written statement of the information requested within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which he receives the request.

Section 2(3) provides that a request is duly made to the landlord if it is made to an agent of the landlord, or to a person who demands the rent of the premises concerned, and that any such agent or person shall forward it to the landlord as soon as may be. Section 2(4) provides that a landlord who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a request under section 2, and a person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with the requirement imposed by subsection (3), commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

Paragraph 1 of the Schedule to S.I. 2026/324 asks for the name of the landlord under the tenancy, so where a company is the landlord that is the company's name. This guide does not say what any particular arrangement makes of that.

Does the deposit paperwork need my address too?

Section 213(5) of the Housing Act 2004 provides that a landlord who has received a tenancy deposit must give the tenant, and any relevant person, such information relating to the authorised scheme applying to the deposit, the landlord's compliance with the initial requirements of the scheme, and the operation of the relevant provisions, as may be prescribed. Section 213(6) provides that the information must be given in the prescribed form or in a form substantially to the same effect, and within the period of 30 days beginning with the date on which the deposit is received by the landlord.

The prescribed information includes the landlord's details. Article 2(1)(g)(iii) of S.I. 2007/797 prescribes the name, address, telephone number, and any e-mail address or fax number of the landlord. Article 2(3)(a) of that Order, inserted by section 30(2) of the Deregulation Act 2015, provides that where the initial requirements of an authorised scheme have been complied with in relation to the deposit by a person acting on the landlord's behalf, the initial agent, references in article 2(1)(g)(iii) to the landlord are to be read as references to either the landlord or the initial agent. Whether that applies to a particular deposit is not a question this guide answers.

The Order has been brought into line for most lettings, with one transitional exclusion. Section 2 of the Renters' Rights Act 2025 abolished assured shorthold tenancies, and section 26(3) of that Act substituted an assured tenancy for a shorthold tenancy in section 213 of the Housing Act 2004. Regulation 7 of S.I. 2026/325 substituted assured for shorthold in article 2(1)(c) of the Order with effect from 1 May 2026, and regulation 1(3) of those Regulations provides that that amendment applies only in relation to private assured tenancies.

The exclusion is in paragraph 11 of Schedule 6 to the Renters' Rights Act 2025, which provides that the amendments made by section 26 do not apply in relation to an existing tenancy that, immediately before the commencement date, was an assured tenancy other than an assured shorthold tenancy. What the Order requires on the facts of a particular letting, and whether a tenancy falls inside that exclusion, are not questions this guide answers, and a landlord taking a deposit should take advice or ask their scheme. The deposit rules themselves are covered in how deposit protection works in England.

Is my address already on a public record anyway?

The register of title is open to inspection. Section 66 of the Land Registration Act 2002 gives any person the right, subject to rules, to inspect and make copies of the register of title and of other documents kept by the registrar.

What the register does and does not show is a separate subject, covered in what a Land Registry search will not tell you.

This guide does not say what any particular register entry contains. A landlord who wants to know what is recorded against their own title should look it up or take advice.

What if I have just bought the property with a tenant in it?

A separate duty applies to you, and it has its own clock. Section 3(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 provides that if the interest of the landlord under a tenancy of premises which consist of or include a dwelling is assigned, the new landlord shall give notice in writing of the assignment, and of his name and address, to the tenant not later than the next day on which rent is payable under the tenancy or, if that is within two months of the assignment, the end of that period of two months.

Section 3(2) allows trustees who constitute the new landlord to be described collectively as the trustees of the trust in question, and where that collective description is given, the address of the new landlord may be given as the address from which the affairs of the trust are conducted. Section 3(3) provides that a new landlord who fails, without reasonable excuse, to give the notice required by subsection (1) commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

The fine is not the only consequence, and the other one falls on the person who sold. Section 3(3A) provides that the person who was the landlord immediately before the assignment, whom it calls the old landlord, remains liable to the tenant for any breach of any covenant, condition or agreement under the tenancy occurring before the end of the relevant period, in like manner as if the interest assigned were still vested in them, and that where the new landlord is also liable for such a breach in that period the two are jointly and severally liable for it.

Section 3(3B) defines the relevant period as beginning with the date of the assignment and ending when either the new landlord gives the tenant notice in writing of the assignment and of the new landlord's name and address, whether in accordance with subsection (1) or not, or the old landlord gives the tenant notice in writing of the assignment and of the new landlord's name and last known address, whichever happens first. Section 3(4) provides that in that section, tenancy includes a statutory tenancy and references to the assignment of the landlord's interest include any conveyance other than a mortgage or charge.

The word address in section 3 carries the section 38 definition as well. Whether a particular transaction was an assignment within section 3(1), and what the definition produces on the facts, are not questions this guide answers.

What do I do next?

Seven steps. Five of them are things to put in writing, and the other two are checks. VEYLO X is a software platform for renting and letting in England. A landlord can hold a dated record of the name and the address that were given to the tenant.

Take advice first if any of the open questions below touch your letting, and in particular before putting anyone else's address on a rent demand. A solicitor or a housing adviser can read the actual agreement.
Put your name, and each name where two or more persons jointly constitute the landlord, and an address in England and Wales for service of notices, in the written statement of terms, where section 16D applies to the tenancy. Paragraphs 1 and 3 of the Schedule to S.I. 2026/324 prescribe them, and section 16D(4) of the Housing Act 1988 requires the statement to be given before the tenancy is entered into, subject to the exceptions in subsections (5) to (7). Section 16D does not apply where an existing tenancy is wholly or partly in writing, by paragraph 7(1)(a) of Schedule 6 to the Renters' Rights Act 2025, and where an existing tenancy is wholly oral paragraph 7(5) requires the statement before the end of the period of one month beginning with the commencement date.
Furnish the tenant by notice with an address in England and Wales for service, which is what section 48(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 asks for, and keep a dated copy of what was given.
Put the name and address of the landlord on any written demand for rent or other sums payable to the landlord under the terms of the tenancy, for premises to which Part VI applies, as section 47(1) of that Act requires, and read the construction of the landlord's address in Beitov Properties Ltd v Martin before using anyone else's.
Answer a written request within 21 days, which is the period section 1(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 sets, reading address as section 38 of that Act defines it. The duty under that subsection falls on the person who demands, or last received, the rent, or on a person acting as the landlord's agent, so it can fall on an agent rather than on you.
If you have just taken an assignment of the landlord's interest, give the tenant written notice of the assignment and of your name and address, within the period section 3(1) of that Act sets. Until that notice is given, section 3(3A) leaves the person who sold still liable to the tenant for breaches during the relevant period.
If the tenancy was entered into before 1 May 2026 and was wholly or partly in writing, check something separate from all of the above: paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 6 to the Renters' Rights Act 2025 required the landlord to give the tenant the prescribed information in writing about the changes made by that Act, before the end of the period of one month beginning with the commencement date, and regulation 3 of S.I. 2026/324 prescribes that information as The Renters' Rights Act Information Sheet 2026. Paragraph 7(3) applies that duty to a contractor the landlord has required by contract to ensure compliance with it. If it was missed, take advice about where that leaves you.

That leaves three questions open, and any of them can decide the position for a particular letting. Is a particular address the landlord's address for section 47(1)(a) on the test in Beitov Properties Ltd v Martin? Did a particular document amount to a notice under section 48(1)? And does section 16D apply to the tenancy at all, or does paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 put it outside? A fourth sits behind the title: what does the section 38 definition of address produce for you, and have you a place of business at all? An adviser who can look at the actual paperwork is the person to put all four to.

Common questions

Do I have to put my home address on the tenancy agreement?

For the written statement of terms, what is prescribed is a name and a service address rather than a home address, although other duties in other Acts ask for something different. Paragraph 1 of the Schedule to S.I. 2026/324 prescribes the name of the landlord under the tenancy, and each name where two or more persons jointly constitute the landlord. Paragraph 3 prescribes an address in England and Wales at which notices, including notices in proceedings, may be served on the landlord by the tenant. Those go in the written statement of terms required by section 16D(2) of the Housing Act 1988, which section 16D(4) requires to be given before the tenancy is entered into, subject to the exceptions in subsections (5) to (7). Paragraph 7(1)(a) of Schedule 6 to the Renters' Rights Act 2025 provides that section 16D does not apply where an existing tenancy is wholly or partly in writing, and paragraph 7(5) modifies section 16D(4) where an existing tenancy is wholly oral. A local housing authority may impose a financial penalty of not more than £7,000 under section 16I of the Housing Act 1988 on a person it is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt contravened section 16D. Where an existing tenancy was wholly or partly in writing, paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 6 to the Renters' Rights Act 2025 disapplies section 16D instead and reads section 16I(1) as referring to a contravention of paragraph 7(2) of that Schedule. A written rent demand is governed separately by section 47(1)(a) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, and in Beitov Properties Ltd v Martin [2012] UKUT 133 (LC) the Upper Tribunal held that a managing agent's address is not the address of the landlord for that provision. Whether any particular address is the landlord's address on that test is not answered in this VEYLO X guide.

What happens to the rent if I never gave an address for service?

Section 48(2) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 treats any rent, service charge or administration charge otherwise due from the tenant as not being due, for all purposes, at any time before the landlord complies with section 48(1). Section 48(1) requires the landlord to furnish the tenant by notice with an address in England and Wales at which notices, including notices in proceedings, may be served on the landlord by the tenant. Section 48(3) takes that consequence away for any time when a court or tribunal appointment of a receiver or manager whose functions include receiving those payments is in force. Part VI of that Act applies, under section 46(1), to premises which consist of or include a dwelling and are not held under a tenancy to which Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 applies, and section 46(1A) excludes a dwelling in Wales subject to an occupation contract. What the position is for rent already paid is not a question this guide answers.

Can my tenant make me tell them who the landlord is?

A written request has to be answered within 21 days. Section 1(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 provides that where the tenant of premises occupied as a dwelling makes a written request for the landlord's name and address to any person who demands, or the last person who received, rent payable under the tenancy, or to any other person for the time being acting as agent for the landlord in relation to the tenancy, that person shall supply a written statement of the landlord's name and address within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which the request is received. Section 1(2) makes failing to comply without reasonable excuse a summary offence, liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, which section 122(1) of the Sentencing Act 2020 sets at £2,500 for an offence committed on or after 1 October 1992. Section 1(3) provides that landlord there means the immediate landlord.

I let through a limited company. Does my own name have to appear?

Not necessarily: the company's name is what the Schedule asks for, and a second request can reach its officers. Where a tenant has been supplied under section 1 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 with the name and address of the landlord and the landlord is a body corporate, section 2(1) lets the tenant make a further written request to the landlord for the name and address of every director and of the secretary of the landlord, and section 2(2) requires that to be supplied within 21 days of the request being received. Section 2(3) provides that the request is duly made if it is made to an agent of the landlord or to a person who demands the rent, and requires that person to forward it to the landlord as soon as may be. Section 2(4) makes failing to comply without reasonable excuse a summary offence, liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale. This guide does not say what any particular company arrangement makes of that.

Sources

The primary sources behind this guide. Where the law and a summary disagree, the law is what counts.

This article is general information, not legal advice. It covers England only and reflects the position as at November 2026. For your own situation, take advice, and consider free advice from Citizens Advice or Shelter.

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