17 Church Hill Avenue, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN39 4SG
CHI/21UG/MNR/2024/0173 · Rother · decided 8 Oct 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £975 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,200 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,000 +2.6% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 2 Sep 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 5 Jul 2024 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 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
Having consideration to the comparable evidence provided by the parties and of our its expert, general knowledge of rental values in the area, we determine that the open market rent for the property in good tenable condition would be £1,250 per calendar month. … Such a tenancy would normally include white goods, carpets and curtains/blinds to all be provided by the Landlord and the property to be in good condition throughout. … In this case the property is not let in such good condition and is evidenced as being tired and dated throughout. … The Tribunal therefore determined that the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under the terms of this assured tenancy was £1,000 per month. … The Tribunal was satisfied that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenant no undue hardship. … Accordingly, the Tribunal directed that the new rent of £1,000 per month should take effect from 2nd September 2024, this being the date specified in the notice.
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.