Once the agreed lease term has ended, must the tenancy be treated as over, or does something keep it in existence until the deposit is returned?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read the lease for the agreed term and the date it ended, any demand by the tenant for return of the deposit, and any proof that money was in fact returned, since the provision turns on whether the tenant has received the deposit back.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the sentence at face value: even after the lease term has ended, the tenancy relationship is deemed to continue until the tenant receives the deposit back, so the end of the term alone does not close it.
Another reading stresses that the provision says the relationship is deemed to continue, not what either party must do during that continuation, so it leaves open which duties of landlord and tenant run on after the term and until return of the deposit.
Your judgment
What in the file would show when, and to whom, the deposit was returned, so that the tenancy the provision deems to continue could be said to have ended?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to attach further consequences to the deemed continuation, or if a court decision specifies which rights and duties continue until the deposit is returned.