Flat 4, 90 West Road, Westcliffe on Sea, SS0 9DB
CAM/00KF/MNR/2023/0137 · Southend-on-Sea · decided 15 Jan 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £550 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £750 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £750 +36.4% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 27 Oct 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 11 Sep 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
In determining the market rent, the Tribunal has regard to prevailing levels of rent in the general locality and achieved rental values in respect of other properties of comparable accommodation and provision that would be likely to be considered by a prospective tenant. The current rent and the period that has passed since that rent was agreed or determined is not relevant. … The legislation requires the Tribunal to have regard to market demand assuming that the landlord is willing. The Tribunal is therefore unable to have any regard to the personal circumstances or identities of the actual landlord and tenant in assessing the level of rent. … In addition, historic matters between the actual landlord and tenant are not relevant to the rent likely to be offered by a prospective tenant. The Tribunal can therefore only have regard to the Property as it exists on the relevant date of the proposed rent review having regard to the statutory assumptions. … As set out above, section 14 of the 1988 Act requires the Tribunal to determine the rent at which the Property might reasonably be expected to let with effect from the date specified for commencement of the new rent as set out in the section 13(2) Notice. … In effect, the Property is assumed to have been vacated, fully redecorated and be available on the market for occupation by an incoming tenant. …
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.