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Long private residential lease (Malta)
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For a landlord and tenant in Malta letting a home as the tenant's primary residence for one year or more. The lease sets out everything article 6 of the Private Residential Leases Act requires — the property, its use, the period, renewal, the rent and how it is paid, the deposit — with the inventory attached, and states the Act's rules on notice, withdrawal, yearly increases, water and electricity, repairs and registration. Both sign; the landlord registers it online with the Housing Authority within 30 days.
- Made for use in Malta
- Last updated November 4, 2026
- Document in English
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When to use this document
- You are renting out a flat in Malta for a year or more and need a written lease.
- You found a long-term rental and the landlord asks you to bring the contract.
- Your old rental contract is ending and you are agreeing a new one with the same tenant.
- You want a lease that sets out the rent, the deposit, the bills and the repairs clearly.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- City
- Date
- Landlord
- Landlord's ID or company number
- Landlord's address
- Tenant
- Tenant's ID or company number
- Second tenant (if any)
- Address of the property
- Description of the property
- Period of the lease (for a long lease, one year or more)
- Start date
- Amount of rent
- When the rent is due each month, and how it is paid
- Yearly rent increase: none, or within article 14
- Deposit amount
- Number of people living in the property
- Further terms agreed (optional)
Common questions
- What must a private residential lease in Malta contain?
- It must be in writing and state the property, its agreed use, the period, whether and how it may be extended, the rent and how it is paid, any deposit, and include an inventory signed by all parties with photographs. Without any of these it is null and void (article 6 of Cap. 604). The landlord then registers it online with the Housing Authority within 30 days of its start (article 4). Free model leases are in the Registration of Private Residential Lease Contracts Regulations (S.L. 604.02); a lease that does not follow them, like this one, must have their standard form attached (regulation 3).
- How long is a long lease in Malta, and how does it end?
- At least one year (article 8). At the end of its term it renews by law for a further year unless the landlord gives at least three months' notice by registered letter (article 9). The tenant may withdraw after a minimum period of six, nine or twelve months, depending on the lease's length, giving one, two or three months' notice by registered letter (article 11). The landlord cannot end it early (article 9(5)).
- Can a Maltese lease add charges besides the rent and the deposit?
- The Act leaves the amount of the deposit to the parties. But clauses charging extra for the furniture, a fixed amount for water and electricity that does not reflect consumption, or payments other than the rent, the deposit, contents insurance and condominium contributions, have no effect (article 7). No more than one month's rent may be asked in advance unless agreed (article 13(2)), and nothing agreed outside the written, registered lease binds (article 15).
How you can sign this document
- Print it and sign by hand. The signature lines in the document are left blank on purpose — sign on them in ink.
- Sign it yourself with a qualified electronic signature. If you already hold a QES — Evrotrust, B-Trust, StampIT, ZealiD or any qualified provider on the EU Trusted List, on a card, a USB token, in a mobile app or in the cloud — our signing guide explains step by step how to sign this exact file without invalidating it. Step-by-step help, and a way to check it worked
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