A void period is the time a rented property stands empty between one tenancy ending and the next one starting, so the landlord gets no rent for those weeks.
Why it matters
The running costs carry on. GOV.UK says “You’ll usually have to pay Council Tax on an empty home, but your council can decide to give you a discount”, so it’s worth asking yours. The empty weeks are also the natural time for repairs, redecorating or a switch between a furnished and an unfurnished let, and furniture left in the rooms gets in the way of the trades and the viewings.
If you mean the gap between leaving one home and moving into the next, that’s bridging storage.
At Wigwam
Whether you’re refurbishing between tenants or letting unfurnished for a while, you can keep the furniture with us from as little as two weeks.
- No need to know the re-let date. If a void or a refurbishment runs over, your storage simply carries on, billed every four weeks. When you’re ready to take the furniture back, give us notice, normally 14 days, and we refund any days you’ve paid for but won’t use.
- Safe while it’s empty. Every unit has its own alarm, and our sites are covered by CCTV monitored around the clock by a professional monitoring company.
- Easy for your trades. You can share access through smart entry with a letting agent, handyman or removals firm, for a set period or with no end date. Someone from your side needs to be there to meet a removals crew, as we don’t take in deliveries.
- Flexible size. If you’re moving between several properties, you can switch to a bigger or smaller unit when one’s free.
If the furniture is going back into a furnished let, wrap it without removing the fire labels. Everything stored needs contents cover, through our contents protection or your own insurance.
To see what a unit near your let costs, get a price online or call us on 0800 2545585.
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Related questions
- Is there a minimum term?
- How much does it cost to store furniture?
- Can I share access to my storage unit?
- Can landlords store furniture between tenancies?
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