Flat 1, 7 Watson Street Burton upon Trent DE14 3AH
BIR/00CN/MNR/2025/0628 · East Staffordshire · decided 15 Aug 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £400 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £450 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £440 +10.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 17 Feb 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 14 Jan 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
The Tribunal would initially state that the pattern of, and previous increases in rental, are not relevant in its determination of the market rent. … Relying on its own expert, general knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal considers that the majority of achieved rentals appear to be in the order of £500.00 to £595.00 pcm for this type of Property. There is evidence of rentals over £600.00 pcm but many of these appears to relate to purpose built properties some with their own parking areas. Considering the Property’s location on a street of terraced housing in a town centre location, the Tribunal adopts, as a starting point, the rental of £500.00 pcm for the Property.
An extract. To keep people's names out, any sentence that might contain one is left out (marked …). The full reasons are in the original decision.
The original
Past decisions are not a prediction. Each tribunal decides on the evidence in front of it.