Room 32, 27/28 Belvedere Terrace, Brighton BN1 3AF
CHI/00ML/MNR/2020/0060 · Brighton and Hove · decided 22 Oct 2020
old rulesroom in shared housebills included| Rent before the notice | £520 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £650 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £541.67 +4.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 20 Sep 2020 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 17 Aug 2020 |
| 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.
From the tribunal's valuation
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 Tenant are not relevant to this issue. … In the first instance the Tribunal determined what rent the landlord could reasonably be expected to obtain for the property in the open market if it were let today on the terms and in the condition that is considered usual for such an open market letting. In the absence of comparable evidence from the parties, the tribunal relied on its own knowledge and experience of lettings of similar properties and determined that the starting point should be £132.50 per week including the items referred to under 17 above. … The tenant has to pay for her own electricity and a deduction of £7.50 a week is appropriate. This represents the Tribunal’s opinion of the difference that a hypothetical tenant would make for a room with and without electricity included. … Thus the net market rent is £125 per week including £13 in respect of council tax, £11 in respect of water charges and £12 in respect of fixed service charges. This new rent is to include the amounts for service charges, water charges and Council Tax and is a fixed sum. Determination 22. …
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.