Inherited property has sold with a tenant in it. The tenant was a longstanding tenant (10 years plus) on an AST that had gone periodic. The deposit was registered with TDS.
I asked my conveyancing solicitor what we needed to prove tenancy had ended. She said that the agents should do a transfer of tenancy. I'd never heard of that so wrote to the agents to ask them to do that. They said all was in hand.
The sale has gone through and we've received the cash from it. However, the agents have basically said that now that the house has sold and the new owners have the tenant, there's no paperwork they need to give us anymore. However, I can see that the deposit is still registered as being at TDS (in the name of our late mum's estate) and my concern is that technically the tenancy is still in place. I don't want any of this coming back to bite us at any point in the future.
What would you advise?
I asked my conveyancing solicitor what we needed to prove tenancy had ended. She said that the agents should do a transfer of tenancy. I'd never heard of that so wrote to the agents to ask them to do that. They said all was in hand.
The sale has gone through and we've received the cash from it. However, the agents have basically said that now that the house has sold and the new owners have the tenant, there's no paperwork they need to give us anymore. However, I can see that the deposit is still registered as being at TDS (in the name of our late mum's estate) and my concern is that technically the tenancy is still in place. I don't want any of this coming back to bite us at any point in the future.
What would you advise?
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