Download a Lodger Agreement for Free

What is a Lodger Agreement?

To start your tenancy on a sound legal footing, you'll need an up-to-date contract signed by all parties: landlord, tenants and guarantors. The standard contract-type for residential tenancies with live-in landlords are Lodger Agreements.

Lodger agreements are governed primarily by common law rather than specific statutes like the Housing Act 1988. A lodger is typically someone who lives in the landlord’s main home and shares living space, such as a kitchen or bathroom. Although lodger agreements tend to look broadly similar, there can in fact be quite a lot of variation in language and structure.

Download our sample Lodger Agreement for free below!

Included in Rent Now

The cost of our contract, with all benefits listed below, is included in our Rent Now tenancy creation service

  • Customised Lodger Agreement drafted for you
  • Industry best practice
  • Latest elements of housing law
  • Editable with Custom Clauses
  • Integrated in Rent Now
  • Stored online for safekeeping
  • Digital Signatures (learn more)
  • Professional Tenancy Creation Process

See Sample Lodger Agreement

Feel free to use our Lodger Agreement sample provided below

  • Sample our best-in-class Lodger Agreement
  • Industry best practice
  • Latest elements of housing law
  • Editable with Custom Clauses
  • Integrated in Rent Now
  • Stored online for safekeeping
  • Digital Signatures (learn more)
  • Professional Tenancy Creation Process

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Not a Live-In Landlord?

If you're not a live-in landlord, you'll need a different contract. To find out more you can view our dedicated pages.

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Free Lodger Agreement

Here you can download OpenRent's template Lodger Agreements for free. These are the rental lease agreements that we use with our Rent Now service. You can trust our Rent Now service because it's been used to create hundreds of thousands of tenancies across the UK. The Rent Now Lodger Agreements include the latest elements of UK housing law, so you can use them as a reference for your own Lodger Agreement.

You can download a PDF free of charge. Our Rent Now users can add their own custom clauses, and collect signatures digitally, as part of our complete tenancy creation process.

Andy Raine
OpenRent Landlord

"We are so impressed with OpenRent"


They drafted our contract, arranged the references, organised our electrical safety testing, took care of processing the deposit and would have organised everything else if we needed it.

—Andy Raine

Detailed Tenancy Agreement Overview:

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