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This part of the site provides information and documents helping you manage commercial and residential property including short and medium term lease agreements, Possession due to arrears and more. With our services, we can help landlords prepare leases and licences for their commercial property, as well as making it easier for them to rent and manage their residential property.
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Buy-to-let
Compatible region(s):
England & Wales
Northern Ireland
A general buy-to-let checklist to be used as initial guidance before entry into this investment market. This document allows you to print out a list of aspects to consider in a hard copy and then as you…
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Residential - Tenancy agreements
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England & Wales
Northern Ireland
This document creates an agreement to be used by the owner of a house or flat who wishes to take on a lodger to occupy part of the house or flat with them. If you are taking on more than one lodger in…
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England & Wales
This document allows you to increase the rent in cases where the tenant agrees to the increase. It can be used even if proceedings have already started under the Housing Act 1988 to change the rent.
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England & Wales
Northern Ireland
This agreement should be used by a landlord who wishes to take on a lodger with the option of providing cleaning services and/or breakfast. The agreement creates a licence and not a lease, which allows…
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England & Wales
This document should be used by landlords of a residential property to create a fixed-term assured shorthold tenancy agreement. Specific clauses are included to cover gas, electrical and fire safety and…
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Northern Ireland
Landlords of a residential property in Northern Ireland can use this document to create a tenancy agreement for a fixed term, suitable for either one or two tenants. Specific clauses are included to cover…
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Scotland
This document creates a 'short assured tenancy' for use in Scotland. Under this type of tenancy the landlord has a right to possession of the premises after expiry of the term of the tenancy, as long as…
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Commercial - leases and licences
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England & Wales
Northern Ireland
Use this document to create a licence for a business premises. A licence might be suitable where giving occupation is merely an act of friendship or generosity; the occupier will be sharing the premises…
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England & Wales
This lease is suitable for a self-contained property located in the UK that will be let for between 7 and 20 years (for properties in England and Wales) or between 5 and 20 years (for properties in…
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England & Wales
Use this agreement if you're a property owner granting a short-term tenancy of no more than 7 years for properties in England and Wales, or up to 20 years for properties in Scotland and Northern Ireland. …
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Landlord's notices and letters
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England & Wales
This document creates an initial letter from a private landlord to a tenant who is in rent arrears. It should be used for residential properties rented under an assured or an assured shorthold tenancy…
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England & Wales
This document is suitable for use by a landlord of business or residential property to request the payment of rent due from the tenant under the terms of the tenancy. It should not be used as a demand for…
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England & Wales
Many tenants, particularly those from overseas, require a letter from their landlord confirming that they have a tenancy. This can be important in opening a bank account, gaining employment, and even…
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England & Wales
This letter requests a reference from a referee put forward by a prospective tenant.
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England & Wales
Use this document to meet your legal requirements after taking a deposit from a tenant. It tells tenants which deposit protection scheme is used and, together with the scheme documents that must be…
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England & Wales
You can use this document to increase the rent for residential premises in England or Wales let under an assured tenancy (including an assured shorthold tenancy). It tells the tenant about the new rent…
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Scotland
Use this document to request a reference letter from a prospective tenant's current or previous landlord. It creates 3 documents: a reference letter, a reference letter mandate and a reference form. The…
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Residential - Notices and letters
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Scotland
If you are a landlord entering into a short assured tenancy with a tenant in Scotland, you must provide form AT5 before the tenancy begins. The form informs the tenant that the tenancy is a Short Assured…
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Northern Ireland
When letting property to tenants in Northern Ireland, use this document to create a rent book in accordance with the Private Tenancies Order 2006. You must provide your tenants with this rent book within…
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Northern Ireland
When letting property to tenants in Northern Ireland, it is necessary to provide each tenant with a statement of the tenancy terms compliant with The Tenancy Terms Regulations (NI) 2007. This document…
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Scotland
Before the start of any new assured or short assured tenancy in Scotland, landlords must give tenants a Tenant Information Pack. The pack informs tenants about the Tenancy Deposit Scheme and the…
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Accelerated possession
Compatible region(s):
England & Wales
This document is the required notice under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988. It is served on a property owner's tenant(s), where an assured shorthold tenancy has been granted and possession is required…
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England & Wales
The documents contained in this pack include everything you will need before you can start court proceedings to claim back possession of your property if it is rented using an assured shorthold tenancy…
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England & Wales
Use this pack after correctly serving a notice confirming which deposit protection scheme you are using and/or a section 21 notice, and the tenant(s) have not vacated the premises within the time…
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England & Wales
Where you have obtained a court order for possession against your tenant(s) using the accelerated possession procedure and they have failed to vacate the property by the time stipulated in the order, you…
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Possession due to rent arrears
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England & Wales
This document creates covering letters to the court and the defendants for a landlord serving a witness statement and a schedule of rent arrears. To use this document, you will need to have issued a claim…
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England & Wales
If your tenant(s) has failed to pay rent and is in arrears, you can use this pack to help get them to pay back the rent, or as the first step in the process of starting court proceedings if they do not…
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England & Wales
Use this pack after correctly serving a notice seeking possession under section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 where the tenant(s) has failed to pay the rent arrears in the time stipulated in your…
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England & Wales
If you have obtained a court order for possession against your tenant(s) for rent arrears and they have failed to vacate the property by the time stipulated in the order, you can use this pack to apply to…
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Contracting with a builder
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England & Wales
Northern Ireland
This pack provides the key documents required to create a basic legal record of the agreement you make with a builder when you engage their services for work. It provides a request for work…
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England & Wales
Use this landscaping contract when entering into an agreement with a landscaping contractor to provide new landscaping work and/or maintenance services. The document provides for an option to incorporate…
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England & Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Use this letter to request an estimate or a quotation from a builder for undertaking building work. An estimate is an educated guess at what a job may cost, whilst a quotation is a fixed price for the…
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England & Wales
Northern Ireland
This document is a contract for a contractor to carry out small-scale building work to a residential property. It is intended for use by the owner of the property or the contractor. It should only be used…
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Managing a builder
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England & Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
If you have agreed a date for completion of building works, or been given an indication of a date, and the work has not been completed by your builder, you can use this document to create a complaint…
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England & Wales
Northern Ireland
Use this document after you have sent our 'Request faulty building work to be fixed' and 'Letter enclosing estimates to complete building work' and your new builder has completed the outstanding work. If…
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England & Wales
Use this document after you have sent our ‘Letter enclosing estimates to complete building work’ and your new builder has completed the outstanding work. If the cost of employing your new…
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England & Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
If you have terminated your builder's contract using our ‘Letter terminating contract for failure to complete outstanding building work’, you can then use this letter to enclose the estimates…
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England & Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
You can use this letter if you have sent the letter 'Request faulty building works to be fixed' and the matter hasn't been resolved. With this letter, you can send the builder copies of estimates that you…
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England & Wales
Scotland
Use this letter to terminate the contract with your builder and to advise him/her that you will be employing another builder to complete the work. Before using this document, you should have sent our…
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England & Wales
This pack provides important documents that can be used in the event of a problem during the course of your building project. It provides templates for engaging with the builder for a series of actions…
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England & Wales
Scotland
If you have instructed a builder to carry out work for you, and the final invoice has exceeded the quotation or estimate, you can use this letter to reject your builder's bill. An estimate may be slightly…
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England & Wales
If you or your builders need to go on to your neighbour's land to carry out necessary repair works on your property, you can use this letter to request access. If your neighbour refuses consent, you might…
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England & Wales
Scotland
If you have employed a builder whose work was faulty or who used materials which did not conform to the contract, use this letter to ask the builder to put the faults right free of charge. The letter…
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