Notice Periods for Landlords are now 4-4-2

From 1 June, notice periods that are currently 6 months will reduce to at least 4 months. Notice periods for the most serious cases that present the most strain on landlords will remain lower:

• anti-social behaviour (immediate to 4 weeks’ notice)

• domestic abuse in the social sector (2 to 4 weeks’ notice)

• false statement (2 to 4 weeks’ notice)

• 4 months’ or more accumulated rent arrears (4 weeks’ notice)

• breach of immigration rules ‘Right to Rent’ (2 weeks’ notice)

• death of a tenant (2 months’ notice)

Notice periods for cases where there is less than 4 months’ of unpaid rent, will reduce again to 2 months’ notice from 1 August. This is to support both landlords and tenants and responds to the greater difference between COVID and pre COVID notice periods for rent arrears.