Flat 5, 84 Sea Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1JL
CHI/21UG/MNR/2023/0273 · Rother · decided 24 Jan 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £750 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £825 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £825 +10.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 21 Nov 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 16 Oct 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, 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 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. … The starting point for the Tribunal is to assess the rental value of the property if being let in the open market. This would normally entail the property being in good order with carpets, curtains and white goods all included. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties, associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Bexhill-on-Sea 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 £900 per month. CHI/21UG/MNR/2023/0273 22. However, the property is let with no curtains or white goods and the Tribunal is told that the heating needs replacing. … The Tenants made no representation that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenants undue hardship. Determination 25. …
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.