Ground Floor Flat, 6 Collington Avenue, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN39 3QA
HAV/21UG/MNR/2025/0772 · Rother · decided 10 Nov 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £900 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,000 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £960 +6.7% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 9 Oct 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 1 Sep 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, 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
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 Bexhill-on-Sea and surrounding areas, 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 £1000 per month. … Such an open market letting would be for a tenantable property in good order with the Landlord responsible for internal decoration and on the basis that carpets, curtains and white goods would all be provided by the Landlord. … In the Tribunal’s view, appropriate adjustment to that amount would be required to reflect the Property’s circumstances and to reflect its shortcomings, and the Tribunal used its experience to do so. In particular an adjustment of £15/month for inadequate white goods and £25/month in respect of condition. …
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.