Flat 2, 15 Ambrose Place, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 1PZ
HAV/45UH/MNR/2026/0199 · Worthing · decided 3 Aug 2026
old rules| Rent before the notice | £625 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £757.90 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £650 +4.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 30 Apr 2026 |
| 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
The Tribunal considered all the information provided by the parties, and noted that the Landlord had not provided evidence of its comparables. The Tribunal recognised that there had been a general increase in rents in the area. … The Tribunal’s role is to determine the market rent independently of the resources available to, and the health of, the Tenant. … Relying on its own expertise and general knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal considers that the market rent of the subject Property modernised and in good order would be in the order of £750 pcm. This is the rent we would expect the property to let for in the open market at the valuation date and if it was in the same general condition as the comparable properties. … The Tribunal paid particular attention to the photographic evidence supplied by the Tenant, and noted that the it corresponded with the Tenant’s submissions. … Additionally, the Tribunal considered the publicly available energy performance certificate for the property which is rated as E.
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.