Room 7, 22 Abington Grove, Northampton, NN1 4QW
CAM/34UF/MNR/2022/0042 · West Northamptonshire · decided 13 Oct 2022
old rulesroom in shared housefigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £400 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £450 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £425 +6.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | The decision gives two dates: 24 Apr 2022 and 13 Feb 2023. See the original. |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 21 Mar 2022 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | room |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
From the tribunal's valuation
The tenant claims that the section 13 notice is invalid. The tribunal would not have the power to determine the market rent if this was the case. … The tenancy agreement does not contain a term disallowing a rent increase as envisaged under this section. This explanatory note in section 9 is a reference to section 13(1) (b) Of the Housing Act 1988 and only applies to tenancies which contain a rent review mechanism – effectively setting out the formula whereby the rent for a particular period will, or may, be greater than the rent for a previous period. In this case 3.6 only refers to the ability of the landlord to increase the rent and how he must go about this. … The insertion of February 2003 in section 3 is correct and the absence of ‘nil’ in section 5 does not lead to any confusion in understanding the notice and would not render it invalid 24. The Tribunal therefore proceeded, on the basis that the notice was valid, to determine the market rent. … The tribunal determines a market rent for a property by reference to rental values generally and to the rental values for comparable properties in the locality in particular. It does not take into account the present rent and the period of time which that rent has been charged nor does it take into account the percentage increase which the proposed rent represents to the existing rent. …
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.