Rent Rise Check

What the rent tribunal decided this week

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This week GOV.UK published 154 rent tribunal decisions on rent increases: 84 set the rent below the landlord's figure. Also 4 rent repayment order decisions, 3 of them orders. rentrisecheck.uk/latest

The First-tier Tribunal decisions GOV.UK published from 18 Oct 2026 to 24 Oct 2026: Section 13 rent increases and rent repayment orders, as they appear on this site, with what each decided. Rebuilt every night when the site checks GOV.UK. Decisions are published weeks or months after they are made; the date of each decision is on its page. Past decisions are not a prediction.

Rent increases (Section 13)

154 decisions published: 84 set below the landlord's figure; 31 confirmed at the landlord's figure; 2 set above the landlord's figure; 15 from housing associations (the tribunal decides the open-market rent); 1 set a rent with no proposed rent stated; 21 made no determination.

Rent repayment orders

4 decisions published; 3 ended in an order. Too few amounts for a typical figure (n=3).

The four weeks before

PublishedRent decisionsSet below the landlord's figureConfirmedNo determinationRepayment order decisionsOrders made
11 Oct 2026 to 17 Oct 2026 34 27 4 2 3 2
4 Oct 2026 to 10 Oct 2026 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 Sep 2026 to 3 Oct 2026 11 8 1 1 6 3
20 Sep 2026 to 26 Sep 2026 6 4 1 0 0 0

Counts are of decisions as published, including those our percentages leave out (rooms, rents with bills; housing associations are counted apart, as the tribunal's figure for them is the open-market rent). "Set above" can happen under the rules before 1 May 2026, when the tribunal decided the market rent whatever the landlord proposed. A decision whose figures haven't been checked yet is counted as such. A rent repayment order published under several references counts once. For figures across every decision, see the press page; for one area, its area page.