Flat 4, 58 Gibbon Road, Newhaven, East Sussex, BN9 9EP
CHI/21UF/MNR/2024/0133 · Lewes · decided 23 Jul 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £840 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £960 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £900 +7.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 20 Jun 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 24 Apr 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, 1 bedroom |
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. CHI/21UF/MNR/2024/0133 22. … Photographs attached clearly show that the floors to both kitchen and bathroom had been repaired and new coverings fitted. In the circumstances the Tribunal decided to accept this additional evidence. … 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 Parties are not relevant to this issue. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Newhaven, 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 £975 per month. Such a letting would normally require the Landlord to provide carpets, curtains and white goods. … In this case the Tenant provides white goods and curtains and there remain several repair issues that might easily have been remedied before the notice of increase was served had more regular inspections been carried out. …
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.