Your tenancy agreement is the document you sign when you agree to become the tenant of your home. It is a contract between you and Portsmouth Homes. The tenancy records information such as your name, the date you became our tenant, the rent and other conditions you must keep to as a tenant. Your local housing office can help you with your tenancy agreement, as well as with:
- Secure tenancy – Portsmouth Homes always provides its tenants with a lifetime tenancy known as a Secure Tenancy. As a secure tenant, you can normally live in the property for the rest of your life, as long as you do not break the conditions of the tenancy.
- Joint tenancy – a joint tenancy agreement allows you to share the responsibilities of your tenancy with someone who lives with you
- Transferring your tenancy – if you leave your property to live somewhere else, you can apply to transfer your tenancy to your partner or a member of your family who has lived with you for at least a year
- Succession to tenancy – your spouse or civil partner has an automatic right to succeed to the tenancy should you, as sole tenant, die. A common law partner can also succeed if they’ve lived in the property for a year or more before your death. Other family members may have a right to succeed. If the person who takes over your tenancy then dies, no one living with them will have an automatic right to take over the tenancy in the same way.
The government website, GOV.UK, has more information about the different types of tenancy.