Which Tenancy Agreement?
What to do next
You should now know broadly which type of tenancy you have and the type of tenancy agreement you should use. (If you are still unsure, Landlord Law members can ask questions in the member’s discussion forum).
This page looks at the wide variety of additional options which are available within the Landlord Law range of tenancy agreements.
If you want a more specialised type of tenancy or an agreement type we do not have here, and if you are a Landlord Law member, you can ask a question about it on the forum. If it is not a tenancy type we can provide, one of the panel solicitors on our telephone advice service may be able to help you.
Click here to find out more about our telephone advice service.
On Landlord Law, we have the following basic tenancy agreement templates:
- The standard AST – with a ‘pre Renters Rights Act’ version
- The standard AST for a room in a shared house – again with a ‘pre Renters Rights Act’ version
- The resident landlord tenancy, and
- A company let form.
Note that when the Renters Rights Act 2025 comes into force on 1 May 2025, new forms of tenancy agreement will be required. We will be preparing these for our members as soon as the government releases details of the prescribed clauses that will need to be included.
Be aware also that the Renters Rights Act provides that, after commencement, a tenancy agreement must be provided before the tenancy is entered into, with a potential fine for non-compliance of up to £7,000.
England v. Wales
We now have totally separate agreements for use in Wales – see the Welsh section of this guide to find out more. The rest of this page refers to English agreements only.
Some common tenancy agreement variations & forms – to be used when:
- You are worried that your proposed tenant may not be able to pay the rent – our tenancy agreements include optional guarantee clauses, or you can use the separate guarantee form
- You will be paying some or all of the bills at the property – if you select the option for the landlord paying the bills, your agreement will provide for you to specify the amount of the rent which is attributable to bills, you will be asked to list the relevant bills, and the tenancy agreement will provide for you to recover any additional costs if the bills paid by you exceed the bills allowance. Although with the increase in the cost of living expenses, and also the forthcoming changes to the procedure for increasing rent, you should be wary about granting ‘bills included’ tenancies.
- We have some additional forms which can be used in the following circumstances:
- You will allow the tenant to keep one or more specified pet – use our separate ‘pets form’, which incorporates extra clauses to protect you
- You agree to allow your tenant to run a home business – use our separate ‘home business’ form, which includes clauses to protect your position
- You agree to allow additional people to stay at the property as ‘permitted occupiers’ or as a lodger – again, we have forms for this
Additional flexibility – customise your agreement
Procedures – you can now incorporate our procedures, which set out instructions for tenants to follow in specific circumstances – for example
- If they want to keep a pet
- If they want to report a repair issue
- If they are unable to pay all or part of their rent
Payment clauses: Note that all our agreements allow members to specify the manner of payment (eg by standing order, cheque, lump payments on specific days, cash on a Thursday etc).
Other clauses: All tenancies also have an ‘additional clauses’ section where you can add your own clauses or use one of the precedents on our additional clauses page. These include, for example, break clauses and clauses to allow access for a gardener.
If the clause you want is not on our additional clauses page, you can ask in the forum and in most cases we will draft one and put it online for you.
See also :
Follow the links below for more information on the Renters Rights Act 2025:
The Information Centre
Landlord FAQ
The Renters’ Rights Act new content page
If you are a Landlord Law member, click the start button below to go to the main tenancy agreements page. For more information about membership, click the Join Now information box. But first, we suggest Landlord Law members visit the New Tenancy Checklist page:
