Lease extension by text message

BillyBrown76

My question is fairly simple, we have an existing assured shorthold lease, currently on its 12th year after being renewed yearly by contracts. 

If the current year was only agreed by text message by the landlord stating we can have another year & we agreed back via text, is that binding? 

If it is would it be from the date of the end of the 2021 contract not the text message?

So 2 questions really

Thanks 

macman

Do you mean a shorthold tenancy? It's binding even if verbal. But the point of writing it down is so that the agreement can be proven. It's sloppy and unprofessional, but not otherwise wrong. maybe he's running late and is going to follow up with a written contract?
When does or did your current fixed-term STA expire?

user1977

I suppose the other question is whether you actually want to extend by a whole year rather than just let it run on as a periodic tenancy?

BillyBrown76

macman said:

Do you mean a shorthold tenancy? It's binding even if verbal. But the point of writing it down is so that the agreement can be proven. It's sloppy and unprofessional, but not otherwise wrong. maybe he's running late and is going to follow up with a written contract?
When does or did your current fixed-term STA expire?

This was all done back last September, the question evolves around whether or not a Section 21 notice they have given us is valid based on dates.

They have used the rent date not end of last years lease date, the rent date is well before.

yes a shorthold 

BillyBrown76

user1977 said:

I suppose the other question is whether you actually want to extend by a whole year rather than just let it run on as a periodic tenancy?

Yes we definitely did want the year