Skip to main content
Elmbridge Borough Council

Services menu

  • My Account

Main navigation

  • Benefits and support
  • Bins, waste and recycling
  • Business
  • Business rates
  • Cemeteries services
  • Community safety
  • Community support
  • Cost of living support
  • Councillors and decision making
  • Council Tax
  • Elections
  • Environment
  • Housing
  • Leisure and culture
  • Licensing
  • Parking and roads
  • Planning
  • Shaping Elmbridge
  • Sports and health
  • Street cleaning
  • Sustainable Elmbridge
  • Your council

Breadcrumbs

  1. Home
  2. Housing
  3. Help for private tenants and owners

Tenant fees

How the Tenant Fees Act protects tenants by limiting the costs landlords can impose on tenants.

Private tenants are protected by the Tenant Fees Act that came into effect on 1 June 2019. The Act limits the costs that landlords can impose on tenants to secure or renew a tenancy.

The only payments that landlords or letting agents can charge to tenants for new contracts are:

  • rent
  • a refundable tenancy deposit capped at no more than 5 weeks’ rent where the total annual rent is less than £50,000, or 6 weeks’ rent where the total annual rent is £50,000 or above
  • a refundable holding deposit (to reserve a property) capped at no more than 1 week’s rent
  • payments associated with early termination of the tenancy, when requested by the tenant
  • payments in respect of utilities, communication services, TV licence and Council Tax
  • a default fee for late payment of rent and replacement of a lost key/security device giving access to the housing, where required under a tenancy agreement

More information

GOV.UK: Tenants Fees Act 2019 guidance for tenants, landlords and letting agents.

Help improve this site by giving feedback

Elmbridge Borough Council

Get in touch

  • Contact us
  • Accessibility
  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Jobs

Follow us

  • facebook
  • Instagram
  • linkedin
  • youtube