Flat 2, Gowland Court, 137-139 Seaside Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 3PG
HAV/21UC/MNR/2024/0503 · Eastbourne · decided 17 Oct 2024
old ruleshousing association / affordable rent| Rent before the notice | £578 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £720 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £620 +7.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Sep 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 25 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 | 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
Having carefully considered all the evidence the Tribunal considers that the rent that would be achieved in a good marketable condition with reasonably modern kitchen and bathroom fittings, modern services and heating system, carpets, curtains and white goods supplied by the landlord would be £775 per month. This figure is based upon the Tribunal’s professional judgement and experience of rental values in the Eastbourne area together with the comparable evidence presented by the parties. … The Tribunal now needs to adjust this rent to allow for the internal condition of the property, the kitchen and bathroom fittings are some 35 years old, there are no white goods, carpets, curtains provided by the landlord, the heating system is extremely basic and the windows are suffering from rot infestation and difficult to open. The Tribunal has considered very carefully the tenant’s submissions. Using its own expertise upon the inspection considers that a deduction of £155 (20%) should be applied. This reduces the rental figure to £620 per month. It should be noted that this figure cannot be a simple arithmetical calculation and is not based upon capital costs but is the Tribunal’s estimate of the amount by which the rent would need to be reduced to attract a tenant. …
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.