ASSURED SHORTHOLD TENANCY AGREEMENT FOR STUDENT ACCOMMODATION
For letting a dwelling on an Assured Shorthold Tenancy under Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988 as amended by the Housing Act 1996.
The landlord lets and the tenant takes the property for the term at the rent payable upon the terms and conditions of this agreement. This agreement is intended to create an Assured Shorthold Tenancy as defined in Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988 (including any subsequent amendments).These tenancies do not guarantee the tenant any right to remain in possession after the fixed term (subject to a minimum occupancy of six months).
Section 2 - Property
The Term as detailed in the lease schedule attached. The “Term” is to include a statutory periodic tenancy or any contractual periodic tenancy that is defined in the Lease Schedule as following the fixed term. If on coming to the end of the fixed term as agreed, the landlord does not seek possession and the tenant remains in the property, they will be considered, by virtue of section 5 of the Housing Act 1988, to have a statutory periodic tenancy. This will continue till ended by either party.
Section 4 – Rent The Rent as declared in the Lease Schedule attached based on a weekly / monthly rent, payable in advance.
The Rent shall be paid clear of unreasonable or unlawful deductions or set off to the landlord’s agent by banker’s standing order or such other method as the landlord’s agent shall require. The first payment of rent being due as stated in the lease schedule or prior to the date of taking possession; thereafter the Rent Due Date will be the same each month during the term of this agreement.
Overdue rental payments will be subject to interest at the rate of 6% per annum calculated from the date the payment was due up until the date payment is received. Any person paying the rent, or any part of it, for the property during the term shall be deemed to have paid it as agent, for and on behalf of the tenant, which the landlord shall be entitled to assume without enquiry. |