Rent tribunal decisions in Tonbridge and Malling
Based on 1 decision in Tonbridge and Malling, decided in October 2026. Only 1 decision so far, so treat it as a rough guide.
You have to apply to the tribunal before the date your new rent starts. After that, if the notice is valid, the new rent takes effect and the tribunal can't set a different one. Check your dates with the notice checker.
Your last day to apply, the notice dates checked and the closest decisions near you, as one PDF, with an email reminder before your last day if you want one.
What the tribunal decided in Tonbridge and Malling
1 decision (1 set a rent). In 1 we can compare the landlord's proposed rent with the rent the tribunal decided.
Only 1 decision to compare. That is too few to show a pattern.
"Typical" means the median: half the decisions are above it and half below. n is the number of decisions a figure comes from.
| All | Old rules | New rules | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set below the landlord's figure | 1 of 1 | – | 1 of 1 |
| Same as the landlord's figure | 0 of 1 | – | 0 of 1 |
| Above the landlord's figure | 0 of 1 | – | can't happen |
| Typical cut, where the rent was set lower | too few n=1 | – | too few n=1 |
| Typical increase the landlord proposed | too few n=1 | – | too few n=1 |
| Typical increase the tribunal decided | too few n=1 | – | too few n=1 |
Old rules: the landlord's notice was served before 1 May 2026, when the tribunal could set the rent higher than the landlord asked. New rules: notice served on or after 1 May 2026; the tribunal can only confirm the landlord's figure or set a lower one.
Past decisions are not a prediction. Each tribunal decides on the evidence in front of it.
How these figures are counted
Only 1 new-rules decision here, too few to show a pattern.
"Typical" is the median. n is the number of decisions each figure comes from. Typical figures from fewer than 5 decisions are shown as "too few", and shares from fewer than 10 as a count ("7 of 9") rather than a percentage.
Left out of the percentages, but listed below: housing association and affordable rents, rooms in shared houses, rents that include bills, register entries without the landlord's figure, and decisions whose figures we haven't been able to check.
Market rents in Tonbridge and Malling (ONS)
The ONS average monthly private rent in Tonbridge and Malling was £1,500 in September 2026 (+3.6% over 12 months).
| Homes | Average rent | 12-month change |
|---|---|---|
| All private rents | £1,500 | +3.6% |
| 1 bedroom | £1,039 | +3.7% |
| 2 bedrooms | £1,343 | +3.7% |
| 3 bedrooms | £1,639 | +4.0% |
| 4 or more bedrooms | £2,498 | +3.1% |
| Flat or maisonette | £1,227 | +3.2% |
| Terraced house | £1,438 | +4.1% |
| Semi-detached house | £1,606 | +4.0% |
| Detached house | £2,217 | +3.6% |
ONS publishes these by number of bedrooms and by property type separately, not combined. They are averages for all private tenancies in Tonbridge and Malling, new and existing, not a valuation of any home. Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (official statistics), figures for September 2026, released 21 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. The ONS dataset.
For journalists
Too few published decisions in Tonbridge and Malling for a citable figure yet: a figure from fewer than 5 decisions is left out rather than shown.
Cite as: "Rent Rise Check analysis of First-tier Tribunal decisions published on GOV.UK", 4 Nov 2026. These sentences as a text file · England-wide figures and the method.
The figures and the list below, with a GOV.UK link for every decision.
Click an address, or "Read the reasoning", to see why the tribunal decided what it did, with a link to the full decision on GOV.UK.
| Address | Type | Rent before | Landlord proposed | Tribunal decided | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 3 Elm Court Elm Lane Tonbridge Kent TN10 3DR Read the reasoning | flat, 1 bed | £1,150 | £1,250 | £1,120 | 12 Oct 2026 |
Rents per calendar month, as the tribunal recorded them. Weekly rents are converted (× 52 ÷ 12).
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