1THIS AGREEMENT — This is a tenancy agreement for a home in England. The landlord lets the home to the tenant on an assured periodic tenancy under Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988. It is also the landlord’s written statement of the terms of the tenancy and of the information the tenant must be given under section 16D of that Act and the Assured Tenancies (Private Rented Sector) (Written Statement of Terms etc and Information Sheet) (England) Regulations 2026. The landlord gave it to the tenant on , before the tenancy was entered into. The tenancy is not granted as a tenancy of supported accommodation. This agreement is not for a home in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
2THE HOME — The landlord lets to the tenant the home at (“the home”), ; the items let with it are listed in the inventory (Schedule 1). The tenant may also use: (shared areas, a garden, parking or storage, if any).
3THE PARTIES AND NOTICES — The landlord: . The tenant: . Where two or more people are the landlord, or the tenant, each of them is bound by every term of this agreement, together and individually: joint tenants are each responsible for the whole rent. The landlord’s address in England and Wales at which the tenant may serve notices on the landlord, including notices in proceedings, is . Notices about the tenancy may also be given by email to these addresses, if written here: landlord , tenant .
4THE TENANCY — The tenancy begins on , the date on which the tenant is first entitled to possession of the home. It is a periodic tenancy: its rent periods are of one , the first beginning on that date, and it runs from one rent period to the next with no end date (Housing Act 1988, s. 4A). It continues until the tenant ends it by notice (clause 14), the landlord recovers possession through the court (clause 15), or the landlord and the tenant agree in writing to end it. If a sole tenant dies, the tenancy passes to the tenant’s spouse or civil partner, or to a person who lived with the tenant as if they were married or civil partners, if that person was living in the home as their only or principal home — unless the tenant had already succeeded to the tenancy (s. 17).
5THE RENT — The rent is for each rent period of one . It is due on the first day of each rent period. The rent for the first rent period is paid after both parties have signed this agreement and no later than the day the tenancy begins; apart from that first payment, rent is never due before the rent period it is for (Housing Act 1988, s. 4B), and no rent may be asked for or accepted before this agreement is signed (Tenant Fees Act 2019, s. 5A and Sch. 1 para. 1). The tenant pays the rent by bank transfer to the landlord’s account: . The tenant may pay rent early, but never has to.
6THE DEPOSIT — Deposit: .
7RENT INCREASES — If the landlord makes a new proposal to increase the rent, the landlord must serve a notice on the tenant in accordance with section 13 of the Housing Act 1988: a notice in the prescribed form (Form 4A), proposing a new rent that starts at the beginning of a rent period at least two months after the notice is served, and no earlier than 52 weeks after the tenancy began or after the last increase took effect. The rent cannot go up in any other way; this agreement contains no rent review (s. 13(4A)). Before the new rent starts, the tenant may apply to the First-tier Tribunal to decide the rent the home would fetch on the open market (s. 14). Within the first six months of the tenancy, the tenant may also apply to the tribunal to challenge the rent itself (s. 14(A1) and (A2)).
8BILLS — The rent does not include any bills, and no bill is payable by the tenant to the landlord. From the day the tenancy begins the tenant pays, directly to the council or the provider, the council tax for the home, the gas, electricity, other fuel, water and sewerage used in it, any telephone, internet or television service the tenant takes, and any television licence the tenant needs.
9LATE RENT AND LOST KEYS — If rent is still not paid in full at the end of the 14 days beginning with the day it is due, the tenant pays interest on the unpaid rent at 3% a year above the Bank of England base rate, for each day after the due date on which it remains unpaid. If the tenant loses a key or other security device to the home, the tenant pays the landlord’s reasonable costs of replacing it, shown by written evidence. No other fee is payable for late rent or a lost key (Tenant Fees Act 2019, Sch. 1 para. 4).
10REPAIRS AND FITNESS — The landlord must ensure that the home is fit for human habitation, to the extent required by section 9A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. To the extent required by section 11 of that Act, the landlord must also keep in repair the structure and exterior of the home, including drains, gutters and external pipes; keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the home for the supply of water, gas and electricity and for sanitation, including basins, sinks, baths and toilets; and keep in repair and proper working order the installations for space heating and heating water. No term of this agreement limits these duties (ss. 9A and 12). The tenant must use the home in a tenant-like manner, tell the landlord promptly about any repair that is needed, and make good any damage the tenant, the tenant’s household or visitors cause, fair wear and tear excepted. When the tenancy ends, the tenant leaves the home and the items in the inventory clean and in the condition recorded in Schedule 1, apart from fair wear and tear.
11SAFETY — Under regulation 3 of the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector and Social Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020, the landlord must ensure that the electrical safety standards are met whenever the home is occupied under the tenancy; ensure that the electrical installations in the home are inspected and tested by a qualified person at least every five years, or earlier if the most recent report requires it; and obtain a report from the person who inspects and tests them, giving the results and the date of the next inspection and test, and give the tenant a copy — a copy of the most recent report before the tenant moves in. Gas: . The landlord must also ensure that a smoke alarm is fitted on each storey of the home on which there is a room used wholly or partly as living accommodation, and a carbon monoxide alarm in any such room that contains a fixed combustion appliance other than a gas cooker (a bathroom or toilet counts as such a room); check that each alarm is in proper working order on the day the tenancy begins; and repair or replace any alarm the tenant reports is not working (Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015, reg. 4). The tenant tests the alarms from time to time and reports a fault straight away.
12PETS — The tenant may keep a pet at the home if the tenant asks to do so in accordance with section 16A of the Housing Act 1988 and the landlord consents, and the landlord must not unreasonably refuse consent. The request must be in writing and describe the pet; the landlord gives or refuses consent in writing within 28 days of the request, or later only where section 16A allows it — when the landlord reasonably asks for more information, needs a superior landlord’s consent, or the tenant agrees (ss. 16A and 16B). The tenant is responsible for damage a pet causes beyond fair wear and tear.
13LIVING IN THE HOME — The tenant lives in the home as the tenant’s only or principal home and uses it as a private home, and does not cause, or allow anyone living in or visiting the home to cause, a nuisance or annoyance to neighbours. Smoking: . Under section 15 of the Housing Act 1988 the tenant may not assign the tenancy, or sublet or part with possession of all or part of the home, without the landlord’s consent. Nothing in this agreement stops the tenant from having a child live with or visit them, or from being a benefits claimant (Renters’ Rights Act 2025, s. 35). Other adults who will live in the home: .
14ENDING THE TENANCY: THE TENANT — The tenant may end the tenancy by giving the landlord notice to quit in writing at least before the day on which it is to end, and no more than two months (Protection from Eviction Act 1977, s. 5(1ZA)). The notice must end the tenancy on a day when rent is due or the day before. It may be in any written form — a letter, an email or a text message — and nothing in this agreement limits how it is written (s. 5A). The tenant pays rent until the tenancy ends. A notice can be withdrawn before it takes effect only if the landlord and every tenant agree in writing (s. 5A(3) and (4)). Where there are joint tenants, a notice given by one of them will usually end the tenancy for all of them. The landlord and the tenant may also agree in writing to end the tenancy on another date.
15ENDING THE TENANCY: THE LANDLORD — In most circumstances the landlord can bring the tenancy to an end only by obtaining an order of the court for possession of the home and the execution of that order (Housing Act 1988, s. 5). To seek such an order, the landlord, or where there are joint landlords at least one of them, must usually first serve on the tenant a notice of proceedings for possession in the prescribed form (Form 3A), which specifies the ground or grounds for possession; the ground or grounds decide the minimum notice the landlord must give before proceedings begin (s. 8). The grounds are set out in Schedule 2 to the Act and include: the landlord or a close family member — a spouse, civil partner or partner, a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild, or a partner’s child or grandchild — needs the home to live in, or the landlord intends to sell it: four months’ notice, and the date in the notice must be at least one year after the tenancy began (Grounds 1 and 1A); at least three months’ rent (thirteen weeks’ rent if the rent is paid weekly) unpaid both when the notice is served and at the hearing: four weeks (Ground 8); other unpaid rent, or rent persistently paid late: four weeks (Grounds 10 and 11); a broken term of this agreement: two weeks (Ground 12); nuisance or annoyance, or a conviction for using the home for illegal purposes: proceedings may begin as soon as the notice is served (Ground 14). On Grounds 1, 1A and 8 the court must order possession if the ground is proved; on the others it may, if it considers it reasonable (s. 7). A landlord who relies on Ground 1 or 1A must not let the home, or market it for letting, until twelve months after the date the notice gives for proceedings to begin (ss. 16E and 16M). The landlord cannot end the tenancy by a notice to quit, or by telling the tenant to leave (ss. 5 and 16E). Removing the tenant other than through the court, or harassing the tenant to make them leave, is a criminal offence (Protection from Eviction Act 1977, s. 1).