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Who can validly serve a Section 13 notice: letting agents and notices after a sale

A Section 13 rent increase notice can be wrong before you even read the figures, if the person who served it had no authority to. A letting agent can serve a notice, but only with the landlord's authority, and a notice served by the old landlord after the property has been sold may not be valid at all. This walkthrough explains who can validly serve a Section 13, how to test whether the server had authority, and what to ask for if you think they did not. England only, Section 13 rent challenges.