7 South Priors Court, Lings, Weston Favell, Northampton, NN3 8LD
CAM/34UF/MNR/2025/0655 · West Northamptonshire · decided 29 Aug 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,550 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,625 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,625 +4.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 11 Dec 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 26 Feb 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, 4 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 understands that the contractual Tenancy came to an end on 10 June 2024 and no further Tenancy has been completed. It therefore follows that there has been a Statutory Periodic Tenancy in place since 11 June 2024. … The Tribunal also notes that the Landlord’s section 13 Notice is dated 26 February 2025 and specifies that the new rent is to come into effect from 11 December 2025 (i.e., in 4 months’ time). … The Tribunal is unclear as to why the stated effective date is nearly ten months after the date of the section 13 Notice but, in accordance with section 14 (1) (b) of the Housing Act 1988, the Tribunal is consequentially required to predict the rent that will be achievable in the open market on 11 December 2025. … In determining the market rent, the Tribunal has had regard to prevailing levels of rent in the general locality and achieved rental values in respect of other properties of comparable accommodation and provision. … The current rent, and the period that has passed since that rent was agreed or determined is not relevant. Previous changes in rent are, therefore, disregarded as the Tribunal is required to assess the rent that would be offered by a prospective tenant who has no knowledge of the existing or previous rents. Similarly, historic rents achieved elsewhere are of limited relevance. …
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.