Flat 4, Carmel Heights, 121 Bexhill Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 0AJ
CHI/21UD/MNR/2024/0167 · Hastings · decided 1 Oct 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £895 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £995 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £877.50 −2.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 13 Jul 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 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 statutory position is that on the expiry of a shorthold tenancy, a statutory periodic tenancy arises. … As the initial term of the Tenancy Agreement expired on the 12 June 2024, the tenancy has reverted to a statutory monthly periodic tenancy and as such the rent review mechanism no longer has effect. The Tribunal therefore deems itself to have jurisdiction to determine a market rent. … The Tribunal assesses the rent for the property as at the date of the landlord’s Notice and on the terms of the extant tenancy. … The Tribunal disregards any improvements made by the tenant but has regard to the impact on rental value of disrepair which is not due to a failure of the tenant to comply with the terms of the tenancy. … 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 in the condition that is considered usual for such a market letting. … The Tribunal was assisted somewhat by two comparable properties provided by the tenant and one by the landlord. Although all properties were purported to be of a similar nature to the subject with some detail provided as to the accommodation and marketing agents, no house numbers, photographic evidence or confirmed rents achieved were provided. …
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.