The Landlord Law Student tenancy agreements

The Renters Rights Bill is nearing the conclusion of its journey through Parliament and we need to start thinking about new tenancy agreements.

I will be unable to produce a final version until we have the prescribed clauses that will need to go in it. 

The removal of our student forms

However, in the meantime, I have decided to remove the special student tenancy agreements from Landlord Law.  The special student clauses are mostly regarding rent and increasing rent if the tenant overstays beyond the fixed term.

These clauses will not survive beyond the commencement date of the new legislation.  So I have taken the decision to remove the forms completely from the site.

Any new student tenancies should use the standard tenancies.

The only aspect of the student agreements that could survive the legislation change is the initial license agreement if tenants are going to move in after the summer break but want to reserve the property before then.

I will have to have a think about this, but in the meantime, as we are in October, the start of the new academic year, this feature will not be required for a while.

If this change affects you please post on the members forum and we can discuss it there.

What about recently issued student tenancies?

If you have recently used one of our student tenancy agreements, all clauses will be valid as of now.

However, after the commencement of the new legislation, all clauses about rent increases will become unenforceable.  

The tenancy will also convert to a periodic assured tenancy on the commencement date.  

However we don’t know when this will be – it could be as easly as January, others have mentioned April 2026.  

The standard ASTs

I may be doing a few tweaks to the standard ASTs in advance of the new forms being uploaded nearer commencment.

You can always check what changes have been done by consulting the changelog.