The Complete UK Landlord Certificate Checklist for 2026 (Gas, EICR, EPC & More)
Every certificate a UK landlord needs in 2026, in one simple checklist — gas safety, EICR, EPC, alarms, and how often to renew them.
Being a landlord comes with a lot of paperwork, and it's easy to lose track of what's actually a legal requirement versus what's just good practice. Get it wrong, though, and you're not just risking a fine — you could lose your right to evict a problem tenant.
Here's the full list of certificates every UK landlord needs, sorted by how often you need to renew them.
The essentials
- Gas Safety Record (CP12) — required annually if the property has any gas appliances, checked by a Gas Safe registered engineer.
- Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) — required every 5 years, confirming the property's wiring is safe.
- Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) — valid for 10 years, must be shown to tenants before they move in.
- Smoke alarms — one on every floor, tested at the start of every new tenancy.
- Carbon monoxide alarms — required in any room with a solid fuel appliance, and now recommended wherever there's a gas appliance too.
Documents you'll also need on hand
- Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) if you supply electrical appliances (not a legal requirement everywhere, but strongly advised).
- Legionella risk assessment — not a certificate as such, but landlords have a legal duty to assess the risk.
- How to rent guide — the government's tenant guide, which must be issued at the start of every new tenancy.
Why this list matters more than it used to
Certificate compliance isn't just a box-ticking exercise anymore. Local authorities have been increasingly active in fining landlords who fall short, and missing paperwork can also stop you serving a valid Section 21 notice if you ever need to regain possession of your property.
The real problem: keeping track of renewal dates
None of this is complicated on its own. The hard part is remembering when each certificate expires, especially if you're self-managing and juggling a full-time job alongside your rental property. A gas certificate renews every year, an EICR every five — and if you own more than one property, those dates rarely line up neatly on a calendar.
That's exactly the gap KeepCert was built to fill: one simple dashboard that tracks every certificate's expiry date and flags renewals before they lapse, so you're never caught out by a date you forgot to diarise.