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Moving in a Tenant (England) | Tenancy Agreements (England)

Adding new tenant to existing tenancy agreement (AST)

10 Oct 2017 | 2 comments

Hi there

My tenant who recently moved in would like her brother permanently added to tenancy agreement. I will of course ask him to do a full tenancy reference check but can I alter existing agreement or should I cancel the current one and draw up a new agreement and if so is there a procedure I should follow? Man thanks Jo

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guildy on 10/10/2017 at 4:50 pm

You shouldn’t add the new tenant to the existing tenancy but instead do a new tenancy with the new names on. The new tenancy could start from the next rent day for simplicity.

There is no need to end the old one because the new one automatically does that in law (known as surrender and regrant by operation of law).

If there’s a deposit, that will need unprotecting and then re-protecting in the new names.
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- Londongirl on 10/10/2017 at 10:39 pm
  
  Super many thanks for your help
  
  Kind regards
  
  Johanna Syal
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