We just built your new tenancy agreements for you
This is not a small update. This is one of the most significant things we have shipped at COHO.
On 1st May 2026, the Renters’ Rights Act comes into force and the Assured Shorthold Tenancy is abolished. Every landlord and letting agent operating in England will need a new, legally compliant Assured Tenancy Agreement before that date.
That is a problem affecting every single one of our customers. So we decided to solve it.
Starting today, COHO includes Assured Tenancy Agreements, free for all customers on an active subscription. We wrote them ourselves, working from a wide sample of real agency ASTs to identify the clauses most commonly used in practice. We then rewrote those clauses to work within the new RRA framework and put the agreements through multiple rounds of review with a UK property solicitor to make sure they are legally sound and contain everything they need to. We built them into the platform, and we are handing them to you at no extra cost, because we think that is what a platform genuinely on the side of property managers should do.
At launch there are three versions:
– HMO single-room tenancies
– HMO joint tenancies
– Single-let properties
These are not repurposed AST templates with a few clauses swapped out. They are new agreements, written specifically for the post-RRA Assured Tenancy regime, in plain English, solicitor-reviewed, and ready to use in England from 1st May.
How they work
Inside your COHO account, you can select the version that fits your property type, customise it if needed, and save it as a reusable template within the platform. Each agreement comes pre-populated with merge tags that pull in the tenancy details collected during your onboarding, so the key information fills itself in automatically.
If you want to edit a downloaded agreement further, use Microsoft Word and save it as a .docx before re-uploading to COHO. Editing in Google Docs will affect the formatting.
Free on every plan
The agreements are free for all COHO customers with an active subscription, across every plan. They are available for England at launch, in line with the scope of the Renters’ Rights Act.
Where this is heading
Right now, these are downloadable templates and they are ready to use today. But this is the foundation of something bigger.
Over time, the agreements will become dynamically generated from the data and settings inside your COHO account. Clauses will be automatically included or excluded based on your property type, your policies, regulatory requirements, and the specific terms of each tenancy, including pets, use restrictions, licensing conditions, and more.
The vision is a tenancy agreement that is not a separate document you manage alongside your platform, but a fully integrated, rules-driven part of COHO itself. Automatic compliance. Clear audit trails. Complete alignment between what is configured in the system and what is legally agreed in the contract.
We are building toward that. But you do not need to wait for it to solve the problem in front of you right now.
We just built your new tenancy agreements for you
This is not a small update. This is one of the most significant things we have shipped at COHO.
On 1st May 2026, the Renters’ Rights Act comes into force and the Assured Shorthold Tenancy is abolished. Every landlord and letting agent operating in England will need a new, legally compliant Assured Tenancy Agreement before that date.
That is a problem affecting every single one of our customers. So we decided to solve it.
Starting today, COHO includes Assured Tenancy Agreements, free for all customers on an active subscription. We wrote them ourselves, working from a wide sample of real agency ASTs to identify the clauses most commonly used in practice. We then rewrote those clauses to work within the new RRA framework and put the agreements through multiple rounds of review with a UK property solicitor to make sure they are legally sound and contain everything they need to. We built them into the platform, and we are handing them to you at no extra cost, because we think that is what a platform genuinely on the side of property managers should do.
At launch there are three versions:
– HMO single-room tenancies
– HMO joint tenancies
– Single-let properties
These are not repurposed AST templates with a few clauses swapped out. They are new agreements, written specifically for the post-RRA Assured Tenancy regime, in plain English, solicitor-reviewed, and ready to use in England from 1st May.
How they work
Inside your COHO account, you can select the version that fits your property type, customise it if needed, and save it as a reusable template within the platform. Each agreement comes pre-populated with merge tags that pull in the tenancy details collected during your onboarding, so the key information fills itself in automatically.
If you want to edit a downloaded agreement further, use Microsoft Word and save it as a .docx before re-uploading to COHO. Editing in Google Docs will affect the formatting.
Free on every plan
The agreements are free for all COHO customers with an active subscription, across every plan. They are available for England at launch, in line with the scope of the Renters’ Rights Act.
Where this is heading
Right now, these are downloadable templates and they are ready to use today. But this is the foundation of something bigger.
Over time, the agreements will become dynamically generated from the data and settings inside your COHO account. Clauses will be automatically included or excluded based on your property type, your policies, regulatory requirements, and the specific terms of each tenancy, including pets, use restrictions, licensing conditions, and more.
The vision is a tenancy agreement that is not a separate document you manage alongside your platform, but a fully integrated, rules-driven part of COHO itself. Automatic compliance. Clear audit trails. Complete alignment between what is configured in the system and what is legally agreed in the contract.
We are building toward that. But you do not need to wait for it to solve the problem in front of you right now.
