Room 3, 41 College Place, Brighton, BN2 1HN
CHI/00ML/MNR/2022/0036 · Brighton and Hove · decided 8 Jun 2022
old rulesroom in shared house| Rent before the notice | £495 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £580 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £580 +17.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 15 Apr 2022 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 14 Feb 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.
From the tribunal's valuation
The first decision the Tribunal needed to make was whether to allow further submissions from the Landlord, namely an inventory from January 2021. … As no objection to the original Directions had been received from either party in time, and no evidence had come to light that was not available when the original submissions were made, the Tribunal determined that it would not extend the time given within the original directions and would decide the case based on the documents already received. … The Tribunal then 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 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 CHI/00ML/MNR/2022/0036 willing Landlord under an assured tenancy. The personal circumstances of the Tenant are not relevant to this issue. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgment and knowledge of rental values in the Brighton area, the Tribunal decided that the market rent for the subject property if let today in as good condition that was usual for such an open market letting would be £630 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.