Landlord and Tenant Solicitors in Seaford

Seaford's private rental market looks a little different from many nearby towns because such a large share of the local housing stock is age-restricted retirement leasehold flats - developments run by operators like Churchill Living and McCarthy and Stone are a common sight, particularly near the seafront - and those are almost always owner-occupied rather than rented out, so they rarely feature in landlord and tenant disputes. Where private renting does happen in Seaford, it's more often in the town's older Edwardian and Victorian houses, many of which have been converted into flats over the years, which brings its own recurring issues around shared repair obligations, service charges on the freehold or head-lease, and boundary responsibilities between converted units. On the regulatory side, Lewes District Council, run jointly with Eastbourne, doesn't currently operate a selective licensing scheme, so an ordinary single-let flat in Seaford doesn't need its own council licence. However, mandatory licensing still applies to larger shared houses. As everywhere in England, the Renters' Rights Act 2025 reforms that took effect on 1 May 2026 apply just as much to a converted Edwardian flat in Seaford as to a new-build elsewhere, so any tenancy agreement drawn up before that date is worth checking against the new rules.