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Unless you're on a fixed term contract expiring on 30 June I'd tell them to piss off as the law isn't on their side. The landlord selling doesn't alter the terms of your tenancy agreement at all. If you're on an AST (fixed contract has expired) that will be two months notice.
They can either sell the property with you still renting, delay the sale, pay you a not insubstantial amount for the inconvenience of agreeing to move out on 30 June.
aggi
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?