What happens at the end of my contract's fixed term? – Help Centre

When your Rent Now tenancy ends you have three options:

End the tenancy
Allow the tenancy to 'go periodic'
Sign a new Fixed Term Contract

You can read more about all of these options, and their legal implications in our blog post, Going Periodic, What Happens When A Tenancy's Fixed Term Ends?

Which ever option you choose, you can find a step by step guide below:

1. Ending the tenancy

For Tenants:

Giving Notice to My Landlord

For Landlords:

How To Serve Notice to Tenants

Ending a Tenancy on OpenRent

2. Periodic Tenancies

This is the default option. All tenancies created by an OpenRent AST automatically turn into a periodic tenancy if the tenants don't move out at the end of the fixed term. This means there's no requirement to renew your contract for it to remain in force.

If you are looking to increase the rent, you can do this as part of the renewal process outlined below. We have some further guidance here if you are looking to do this and continue with a periodic tenancy. The rest of the AST remains in force as before.

Since the Deregulation Act (2015) has come into force, there is no need to re-protect the security deposit or serve additional prescribed information as long as the deposit was properly protected when the tenancy was arranged. The deposit remains protected, and the tenancy remains between the same parties and for the same property.

If you have already set up a tenancy through us, then your entire current contract is visible at any time via our website. Please note Section 12.2 lays out the relevant notice period for a periodic tenancy, where the tenant needs to give written notice of at least one month.