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I agree that you should read your tenancy agreement as that will reveal all, but assuming you have an Assured Shorthold Tenancy:
If you're within the original fixed period they can't force you to leave before that ends. If you're after the original fixed period and you pay your rent monthly they have to give you two months' notice from the day you pay your rent. So if you pay on the 25th of the month and they give you notice now you'd have to leave on the 24th of August. That's the rules.
Work out your position, explain it to your landloRd /agent and that two weeks is silly short to find something, try to come to an agreement. It may be that if they're desperate enough to complete on the first they'll Bing you some dosh to tear up the contract...
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Anybody got any advice?
Landlord contacted us in January to say they were considering selling the property we're in. They assured us it wouldn't be quick process, and there have been a couple of emails, with up to 8 weeks delays from the landlord to respond since. We've asked multiply times for an indication of timescale, but never received one.
There were viewings in May and today (14th June) we've just received an email asking us to sign a legal paper to state we'll be out on the 30th June as they've sold the property and the new owner would like to move in on the 1st July.
Up to this point everything has been quite amicable, but obviously, two weeks isn't a lot of time. We've had no formal correspondence at all concerning any of this, just a couple of emails which were all quite chatty and nice.
Anybody been in a similar situation?