Tibbs Oast, Udimore Road, Udimore, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6AR
CHI/21UG/MNR/2023/0015 · Rother · decided 31 May 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,900 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £2,333.20 +22.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 23 Jan 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 19 Dec 2022 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 3 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 first step is to calculate the rental figure without the inflation-based rent review clause (clause 9). Having carefully considered all of the evidence, and using its knowledge and experience the Tribunal considers that the rent that would be achieved in good condition with refurbished kitchen and bathroom fittings, external maintenance, internal renovation, modern services, an operational central heating system, carpets, curtains, functioning white goods supplied by the landlord would be £3750 per month. The Tribunal did its very best to analyze the generic “Rightmove” comparable evidence provided by the landlord. … The provides 6 comparables of varying types within a 2-mile radius between December 2020 and March 2023. This is a relatively individual property in terms of location and type. Therefore, the Tribunal had to make certain assumptions regarding specification, location, floor area, house type, actual achieved rent value and any market movement compared with the date of valuation. … 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 tenant’s improvements, unless they are carried out under an obligation to the landlord. …
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.