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Which tenancy agreement will I get, an AST or a periodic one?

The builder picks it from the tenancy dates rather than asking you to know. For a tenancy starting on or after 1 May 2026 in England you get an assured periodic tenancy, because the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 ended new fixed-term assured shorthold tenancies from that date.

Why this is not a dropdown

Getting the regime wrong is not a formatting problem. A fixed-term AST issued for a tenancy that the Act says is periodic is the wrong document, and you find out at the point you need it to work.

So the builder reads the dates and produces the agreement that matches, rather than trusting anyone to remember which side of the cutover a tenancy falls on.

What comes with it

The agreement is built alongside the written statement of terms, which has to be given for a tenancy entered into after the cutover. Both go out through the same send-to-tenant route, so the record of what was served sits in one place.

Signing

Send it for e-signature and each signature is captured with the time and the signing details recorded against it. You get the signed PDF; the tenant gets their copy through the portal.

Where this lives

Tenancy agreement.

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