Flat 3, Kent House, 59 Royal Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 7AQ
HAV/21UC/MNR/2024/0637 · Eastbourne · decided 21 Jan 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £575 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £650 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £615 +7.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 26 Nov 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 11 Oct 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, studio |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Such a tenancy would normally include white goods, carpets, curtains/blinds and associated fittings, all to be provided by the Landlord. … In this case the Tenant has informed the Tribunal of various items of disrepair, and that there is neither central heating, nor a washing machine, nor double glazing. Accordingly, some adjustments to the market rent are necessary. … The Tenant made no representation that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause her undue hardship. … This being the date specified in the Landlord’s Notice proposing a new rent.
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.