5 Wellington Court, Seaside, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 7RG
CHI/21UC/MNR/2022/0099 · Eastbourne · decided 26 Oct 2022
old rules| Rent before the notice | £732.75 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £819.21 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £775 +5.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 15 Sep 2022 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 5 Aug 2022 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 2 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 it decided that it could do so. … The Agent will know that The Tribunal is required to determine the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market at today’s date by a willing Landlord under an assured tenancy. … In the absence of any market evidence from the parties the Tribunal could only rely on its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Eastbourne. 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 £775 per month. … There was no evidence that the Tribunal should adjust or vary from this open market rent. … 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 19. 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 £775 per month. … The Tribunal directed that the new rent of £775 per month should take effect from 15th September 2022, this being the date specified in the Notice.
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.