Unless you are leaving at the end of a fixed-term agreement, you need to give the correct notice period to end your tenancy agreement when you decide to move out.
The tenancy agreement did include a clause that would convert the agreement into a "periodic" tenancy at the end of the six months if we did not opt to take out a new fixed term agreement.
Last year the government said it planned to make it easier for tenants to sublet a room by legislating against the use of clauses in private fixed-term tenancy agreements that expressly rule out subletting or otherwise sharing space on a short-term basis.
"If you have signed a fixed-term tenancy agreement then your landlord cannot increase the rent during that time without your consent," says Hannah Maundrell of Money.co.uk.co.uk
A few years ago, he said, he relinquished future royalties from his later songs to a third party for a $2 million payment in what he thought was a fixed-term licensing agreement but which turned out to be an outright sale; he invested that money in a recording studio project that has since failed.
It can be difficult for one person to move out of a fixed-term joint tenancy agreement, so know what contract you have signed.
Plans were also announced to exclude fixed-term contracts from collective redundancy agreements when they reach the end of their "natural life".
Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat employment relations minister, also announced plans to exclude fixed-term contracts from collective redundancy agreements when they reach the end of their "natural life".
The University and College Union (UCU) said plans to exclude fixed-term contracts from collective redundancy agreements were "another damaging blow" for post-16 education, a sector with high rates of staff on fixed term contracts that has already been hit with funding cuts and threats of job losses.
So they must be patting themselves on the back having opted for a five-year, and not a four-year, fixed-term Parliament in the coalition agreement.
EU aid to redundant workers will continue in 2014-2020 and be extended to new categories of workers, such as the self-employed and those on fixed-term contracts, according to an agreement endorsed in plenary session on Wednesday.
