14 Hunters Mead, The Street, Albourne, Hassocks, West Sussex, BN6 9DL
CHI/45UG/MNR/2023/0201 · Mid Sussex · decided 9 Oct 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,125 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,450 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,245 +10.7% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 15 Aug 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 11 Jul 2023 |
| 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 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. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in West Sussex 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 £1,500 per month. … However, the property is not let in a condition or on terms that would command such a rent and a number of adjustments need to be made to reflect this, not least the age and quality of the fittings. … The age and condition of some fittings and decoration is not agreed by the parties but the Tribunal accepts that the fittings are generally in excess of 10 CHI/45UG/MNR/2023/0201 years old and, as evidenced by the cooker extractor hood, are in need of updating. …
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.