Download Occupation Contract for Free
What is an Occupation Contract?
To start your tenancy on a sound legal footing, you’ll need an up-to-date contract signed by all parties: landlord, contract-holders and guarantors. Under Welsh law, most private tenancies need to use rental agreements called standard occupation contracts. A written statement of these contracts must be provided to tenants.
Occupation contracts were introduced when the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 came into force in December 2022. Some details and clauses are mandatory, but this does not include all terms that a landlord may need.
It is therefore highly recommended for a landlord to use a professionally-drafted occupation contract (such as OpenRent's), in order to ensure that they don't miss out mandatory terms and risk significant fines for non-compliance, but do include all the terms that a landlord may need in order to protect their property.
Download our Occupation Contract for free below!
The cost of our contract, with all benefits listed below, is included in our Rent Now tenancy creation service
- Customised Occupation Contract drafted for you
- Industry best practice
- Latest elements of housing law
- Editable with Custom Clauses
- Integrated in Rent Now
- Stored online for safe-keeping
- Digital Signatures (learn more)
- Professional Tenancy Creation Process
Feel free to use our Occupation Contract sample provided below
- Sample our best-in-class Occupation Contract
- Industry best practice
- Latest elements of housing law
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Renting in England?
The English contract is a little different from an Occupation Contract, it's referred to as an "AST".
To find out more you can view our dedicated page.
Free Sample Occupation Contract
Here you can download OpenRent's template Occupation Contract for free. It's the rental lease agreement that we use with our Rent Now service. You can trust our Rent Now service because it's been used to create hundreds of thousands of tenancies across the UK. The Rent Now occupation contract includes the latest elements of Welsh housing law, so you can use it as a reference for your own occupation contract.
Choose whether to see a sample of our joint occupation contract (for a whole property) or for shared houses. You can download a PDF of each free of charge. Our Rent Now users can add their own custom clauses, and collect signatures digitally, as part of our complete tenancy creation process.
"We are so impressed with OpenRent"
They drafted our contract, arranged the references, organised our electrical safety testing, took care of processing the deposit and would of organised everything else if we needed it.
- Andy Raine
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