The tenancy trail

Answer – resident landlords

If the landlord is a resident landlord, then this will be a common law tenancy and not an assured tenancy.

Landlord Law members will find further information about common law tenancies  here and we have tenancy agreements which are suitable for this situation.

Note that (as stated in the question) this will not be the case if the landlord and the tenant’s properties are in a purpose-built block of flats where the landlord lives in one and the tenant in another.  Here the tenancy will normally be an assured tenancy.

Note also that if the landlord (or all of them if there is more than one) moves out permanently, then the tenancy will convert to an assured tenancy.