Clodhoddle Cottage, 108 High Street, Elstree, Hertfordhsire, WD6 3EP
CAM/26UE/MNR/2025/0793 · Hertsmere · decided 19 Jan 2026
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,500 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,900 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,800 +20.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 10 Nov 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 6 Sep 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 3 bedrooms |
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 first considered whether it felt able to reasonably and fairly decide this case based on the papers submitted only with no oral hearing. Having read and considered the papers and viewed the property on the internet it decided that it could do so. … The Tribunal is required to determine the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under an assured tenancy. The personal circumstances of the Parties are not relevant to this issue. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Elstree and surrounding villages, the Tribunal decided that the market rent for the subject property if let today in a condition that was usual for such an open market letting would be £1,800 per month. This takes into account the poor energy rating countered to some extent by the character accommodation. CAM/26UE/MNR/2025/0793 21. The Tenant made no representation that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenant undue hardship. Determination 22. The Tribunal therefore decided that the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under the terms of this assured tenancy was £1,800 per month. …
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.