What should the landlord do?
1. If the landlord sells the house during the lease period, the tenant may ask the landlord to continue to perform the contract and bear the liability for breach of contract, or terminate the lease contract to compensate for the losses. Because the ownership of the leased property changes during the lease period, the validity of the lease contract will not be affected.
2. Legal basis: Article 726th of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Where the lessor sells the leased house, it shall notify the lessee within a reasonable period before the sale, and the lessee has the preemptive right under the same conditions.
2. Under what circumstances does the lessee have no preemptive right?
In any of the following circumstances, the people's court shall not support the lessee's claim to purchase the house first:
1, the house * * * has the preemptive right;
2. The lessor sells the house to close relatives, including spouses, parents, children, brothers and sisters, grandparents, grandchildren and grandchildren;
3. After the lessor performs the notification obligation, the lessee fails to explicitly indicate the purchase within fifteen days;
4. The third party purchases the leased house in good faith and has gone through the registration formalities.
If the lessor entrusts the auctioneer to auction the leased house, it shall notify the lessee 5 days before the auction. If the lessee fails to participate in the auction, the people's court shall determine that the lessee waives the preemptive right. If the lessor sells the leased house within a reasonable period of time without informing the lessee or there are other circumstances that infringe the lessee's preemptive right, and the lessee requests the lessor to bear the liability for compensation, the people's court shall support it.