Rented property in receivership, AST expired

andyc11

Hi,

The rented property I live in under an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) has been placed in receivership. My tenancy agreement expired on the 3rd August 2014 and despite repeated requests to the letting agent, they have failed to send me a new AST. I am aware that when an AST expires, the tenancy continues month to month under the terms of the old agreement, but is this still the case when a Receiver has been appointed?

Thanks

RAS

Yes

The Receiver is your new landlord. I would not pay any further rent until you are informed of the details of the new LL. Put the rent aside.

WRITE (not e-mail or phone) to the letting agent and to the Reciever advising that you are putting the rent aside until you are formally notified of the new LL's address for the serving of notices and payment details.

andyc11

Thank you, the company appointed as the Receiver have informed me to pay them the rent directly, providing details as to how and also informed me to not pay the letting agent (whom I have made aware).

agrinnall

A new AST would not have been required from the previous LL, you'd simply have moved onto a periodic tenancy at the end of the fixed period. I'm not sure whether a change of LL to the receiver changes that but I think you are now in a periodic tenancy, which allows you to give 1 month notice should you decide not to stay there.

G_M

Read

Repossession (What happens if a landlord's mortgage lender repossesses the property?)

(substitute 'Official Receiver' for 'mortgage lender')