Open-ended residential lease (Cyprus)
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A Cypriot lease of a home with no end date, running from month to month: the property, the rent and its adjustment, the deposit, bills, duties and the move-in and move-out records. Either side ends it by written notice, with the period you set, at the end of a calendar month. It records whether the home falls under the Rent Control Law of 1983, because then a tenant who stays after the tenancy ends becomes a statutory tenant and the landlord recovers possession only by court order.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- City
- Date
- Landlord
- Landlord's identity card or ARC number
- Landlord's address
- Tenant
- Tenant's identity card or ARC number
- Tenant's address
- Address of the property
- Area
- Rooms
- Inventory of furnishings
- Term from
- Handover date
- Rent control: in a controlled area and completed by 1999, or not
- Rent
- Rent in words
- Payment term (days)
- IBAN
- How the rent is adjusted each year (e.g. by the consumer price index, or by a fixed percentage)
- Utilities
- Deposit
- Deposit in words
- Notice period in months
- First witness
- First witness's identity card, ARC or passport number
- Second witness
- Second witness's identity card, ARC or passport number
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Common questions
- How much notice ends an open-ended tenancy in Cyprus?
- As much as the lease sets, which is why this one asks you to write it in months. Notice is given in writing, and the tenancy ends at the end of a calendar month. Where a lease sets no notice, a month-to-month tenancy does not end with each month but runs on until one side ends it with one month's notice.
- What changes when an open-ended tenancy in a controlled area of Cyprus ends?
- If the home is in a controlled area and was completed by 31 December 1999, a tenant who stays after notice to end becomes a statutory tenant. The landlord can no longer remove them just by ending the tenancy, but must apply to the Rent Control Court and prove a ground the Rent Control Law allows, such as rent arrears. Outside the controlled areas, a tenant who stays after the tenancy ends is taken to the District Court.
- How is notice ending a tenancy given in Cyprus?
- In writing, to the address in the lease, by registered post or by hand against a signature, as this lease also provides. That is how such a notice is usually sent in Cyprus; what matters is being able to prove what was sent and when. Keep a copy, and the post office receipt or the signed acknowledgement.
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