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Should the landlord send a new eviction notice to the tenant or the previous owner's notice stands?
In my landlord-tenant dispute scenario I have received conflicting answers from lawyers, so I want to know if you have any real judicial judgments from the RDC on this:
The property was tenanted and the tenant received a court-stamped 12-month eviction notice due to the landlord wanting to sell the property.
The property was sold to a new owner prior to the end of the 12-month period.
The tenant claimed that the previous eviction notice was invalidated due to a change of ownership and refused to vacate.
The new landlord sent a subsequent court-stamped notice, referencing the date of the previous eviction notice and instructing the tenant to leave as the landlord desires to move in himself.
The tenant claims that the subsequent notice has no legal basis, neither in reinforcing the original notice nor as a new 12-month eviction notice.
The original 12-month eviction period will expire on June 8 and the new landlord will raise an RDC case on June 9 to evict the tenant.
1) Because the rental laws in the emirates of the country are not the same, it is better to explain in your question where this happens, in order to get a correct answer.
2) If this is in Dubai, the rental law has not explicitly referred to the issue you are talking about.
3) There is a general rule in the law that the rights and obligations of the previous owner pass to the new landlord, automatically.
4) According to Dubai rental issues, the new landlord does not need to send an eviction notice to the tenant, and the tenant must vacate the property on the date specified in the eviction notice sent to him by the previous owner.
