Landlord terminates rental contract when house is being sold?

Questioner

I'm renting a room in a house and I live with two housemates. The landlord now wants to sell the house and is telling us that we have to move out within 3 months of the house being sold. Our contract doesn't have an end date, but it mentions that the landlord can terminate it as long as they give 3 months of notice. Is selling the house a legal reason to terminate our renting contract?

Lawyer

Dear sir, madam, I can't advise you specifically but in general the law states as follows. When a tenant rents a living home for an undetermined time, the home-owner can only end the rental contract on legal grounds. There are some legal grounds in the law which allows the home-owner to end the contract. Just selling the place is not one of the legal grounds. One of the grounds is when the home-owner needs the space in an urgent matters for his own good. But even if so, when the tenant doesn't agree with ending the rental agreement, the home-owner has to start a case at court to ask the judge to end the rental agreement. It looks like in your case that the home-owner can't end the contract but to know this for sure I would like to get to know further details, read the rental agreement and the correspondence between you and the landlord. If you want a personalized legal analysis of your case, please feel free to contact me at pjdejong@solutions advocaten.nl We can set up an online call. yours sincerely Mr. Pieter-Jan de Jong