18C Pelham Road, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 1ES
CHI/21UF/MNR/2023/0272 · Lewes · decided 15 Jul 2024
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £800 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £880 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £665 −16.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 17 Dec 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 7 Nov 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
From the tribunal's valuation
Having carefully considered all of the evidence, and using its knowledge and experience the Tribunal considers that the rent that would be achieved damp free in good condition with refurbished kitchen and bathroom fittings, external maintenance, internal renovation, modern services, and carpets, curtains and white goods supplied by the landlord would be £950 per month. … That however is the rent that would be achieved if the property was let in good condition with all modern amenities. The Tribunal must disregard any increase in rental value attributable to the tenants improvements, unless they are carried out under an obligation to the landlord. The Tribunal has been provided with a copy of the tenancy agreement, which incorporates the usual repair obligations. … Based upon the evidence provided to the Tribunal we consider that the rent should be reduced by 30% (£285) to reflect the matters considered above. Therefore, our deduction reduces the rental figure to £665 per month 19. It should be noted that this figure cannot be a simple arithmetical calculation and is not based upon capital costs but is the Tribunal’s estimate of the amount by which the rent would need to be reduced to attract a tenant. 20 Therefore the Tribunal determines the market rent in accordance with Section 13(4) of the Act to be £665 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.