18A Downs Road, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 2DX
HAV/21UD/MNR/2025/0797 · Hastings · decided 12 Dec 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £930 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,175 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,000 +7.5% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 26 Oct 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 12 Oct 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Having given consideration to the comparable evidence provided by the parties and of its own expert, general knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal determines that the open market rent for the property in good tenantable condition would be £1,175 per calendar month. … Such a tenancy would normally include white goods, carpets, curtains/blinds and associated fittings to all be provided by the Landlord. … In this case the property is not let in such condition so some adjustments to the ‘open market rent’ are necessary. In particular the Tribunal has made the adjustments for the dated bathroom in disrepair and general wants of repair to include damp and mould issues throughout the property. … The Tribunal therefore decided 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 Tenant had requested that due to financial hardship the starting date for the new rent should be later than the date specified in the Notice. … Whilst sympathetic to the Tenant’s position the Tenant had not submitted sufficient evidence for the Tribunal to determine that the effective date should vary from the date specified in the Notice. … Accordingly, the Tribunal directed that the new rent of £1,000 per month should take effect from 26th October 2025.
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.