The Renters’ Rights Act, which came into force in May 2026, prompted Alps to develop both a rent guarantee product and a landlord pet insurance cover. The Act abolished Section 21 no-fault evictions, converted assured shorthold tenancies into rolling monthly agreements and introduced new restrictions on rent in advance. Those changes mean a landlord can no longer simply end a tenancy and re-let if a tenant stops paying or if a pet causes property damage the tenancy agreement didn’t anticipate; both risks now sit with the landlord for longer, and for less certain periods, than they did before May 2026. That’s the specific gap the rent guarantee and landlord pet products are built to close, and it gives brokers advising landlord clients a concrete answer to a coverage question that genuinely didn’t exist in this form a year ago.
