Wales Landlord Guidance
Tenancy Agreements
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Contractual or Common Law Tenancies
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The decision of Northwood (Solihull) Ltd v Fearn & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 40 has been handed down, and it's good ...
The length of a fixed term offered in a tenancy agreement is really whatever you feel comfortable with, but as a ...
On 21 July 2016, the Law society published a practice note titled: Execution of a document using an electronic ...
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Forms
Contractual (Common-Law) Tenancy Agreement
Product Code: F005
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN ASSURED SHORTHOLD TENANCY
THIS IS NOW PART OF THE TENANCY ...
Management Regulations (Add Terms to Tenancy Agreement)
Product Code: F035 04/14
All our tenancy agreements have the capability of the landlord adding clauses that ...
Guarantee Agreement
Product Code: F029
A landlord is always advised to obtain a guarantor (also known as surety) for every let they ...
Ground 1 Landlords Only or Principal Notice
Product Code: F043
For tenancies granted on or after 28 February 1997 or for tenancies correctly accompanied ...
Ground 2 Mortgage Notice
Product Code: F044
A ground 2 notice is to notify a tenant before a tenancy is granted the the rented property ...
Ground 3 Holiday Let Notice
Product Code: F046
A landlord may serve this ground 3 notice before a tenancy commences notifying the tenant ...
Notice Tenancy is to be Assured and Not Assured Shorthold
Product Code: F070
PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO THE GUILD. THIS NOTICE WILL GIVE ...
Notice That Assured Agricultural Occupancy is to be Assured Shorthold Tenancy – Wales
Product code: F084 - Wales only
THIS FORM IS ONLY SUITABLE FOR WALES!
Housing Act 1988 Schedule 2A, ...
Written Statement of Terms – Verbal Tenancy
Product code: LT019
If there is no written tenancy agreement, a tenant under an assured shorthold tenancy may, ...
Tenants Information Leaflet – Control of Legionella
Product Code: LRA005
When completing a legionella risk assessment, it will almost always be a part of that ...
Document Checklist Confirmation
Product code: F031
For any tenancy granted on or after 1 October 2015 in England it will not be possible to ...
GDPR Privacy Notice for Tenancy Agreement
Product code: F104 05/18
This is the privacy notice compliant with GDPR as contained in our tenancy agreement ...
Questions and Answers (for this topic and country)
I am going to move an existi g tennant to a different property in my portfolio. (more…)
Hi guildy, when signing a tenancy agreement with a tenant I have always taken 2 copies of it and we all sign each so I can give a signed one there and then to the tenant and I also have one. ...
12/07/2019 9:20 pm
Property available for a fixed term of 10+ months from 4th September 2019, but prospective tenant wants it from 9th Sept until "September 2020".
I'm willing to ...
The 6 month tenancy agreement ends in 2 weeks, I would like to renew the tenancy agreement as a garden shed was built for the tenants in that 6mth period and I would like to include it in the ...
Hi,
I have a group who wish to take a student 6-let of mine in Cardiff. However one of the tenants only wishes to live in the property until 31st Jan 2018 and the other 5 student tenants have ...
Hi guildy, I have 7 students signed up on a fixed contract until june 2021. 6 want to stay on for the next academic year 2021 to 2022. As the student house hunting season starts in November they ...