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MR1 helper

Form MR1 is how a tenant asks the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to decide the open market rent after a landlord's notice of increase (form 4 or 4A). This page goes through the form's questions in plain English, in the form's own sections and order, and gives you a summary to print and copy into the official form. Nothing you enter is stored, and nothing is sent to the tribunal or your landlord. Your name, address and contact details, and your landlord's, aren't asked for here: write them straight onto the form.

You apply yourself, on GOV.UK. Online at GOV.UK's apply service (the tribunal sends your application to the landlord), or with the MR1 form by email to marketrents@justice.gov.uk or by post to First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) Residential Property – Market Rents, PO Box 10057, Leicester LE19 9EP, sending a copy to your landlord yourself. The tribunal has to receive it before the start date of the new rent in the notice. The fee is £47, or nothing if the notice was served before 1 May 2026 or the home is social housing; help with fees is possible on a low income. To challenge only the notice's legal validity, the paper form is the only route. Source: GOV.UK's guidance (updated 10 August 2026) and the form itself, MR1 (08.26).

Section 1: Type of appeal 1.1 What are you asking the tribunal to do? 1.2 What kind of tenancy is it? 1.3 When was the notice of increase served (given to you)? 1.4 Is the home social housing?

Section 2: Your details

2.1-2.10: Your name, address and contact details, and any representative's: write these straight onto the form. This page doesn't ask for them.

2.3 The property's address (for your own reference)

Section 3: Your landlord's details

3.1-3.8: Your landlord's (and any letting agent's) name, address and contact details: write these straight onto the form.

Section 4: Notices 4.1 Have you attached a complete copy of the landlord's notice of increase? 4.2 Do you accept that the notice served is valid? 4.2 If not, why not, and what evidence you attach 4.3 Has the tribunal decided the rent for your tenancy before? If so, its case reference

Section 5: Your tenancy 5.1 Your current rent 5.2 Does the rent include council tax? If so, how much and how often 5.3 Does the rent include charges for utilities? If so, how much and how often 5.4 When did the present tenancy begin? 5.5 Do you have a copy of your tenancy agreement? (If not, the form asks why.)

Section 6: The property 6.1 What type of accommodation do you rent? 6.2 For a flat or room(s): which floor(s)? 6.3 The number and type of rooms (for example, one living room, two bedrooms, one bathroom) 6.4 Other facilities with the tenancy, such as a garden, garage, buildings or land 6.5 Do you share the accommodation with your landlord or other tenants? Details 6.7 Approximate size of each room (the form also asks for a photo of the outside and of each room)

Section 7: Furniture and appliances 7.1 Furniture or appliances provided under the tenancy

Section 8: Services 8.1 Services provided under the tenancy, such as cleaning or gardening 8.2 Separate charges for services, maintenance, repairs, management or anything else: type, amount and how often 8.3 Do those charges vary? Details

Section 9: Indoor features 9.1 The property's indoor features, such as the heating, double glazing and flooring

Section 10: Improvements 10.1 Improvements you or a former tenant made, or fixtures, fittings or furniture you replaced, that the tenancy didn't make you responsible for

Section 11: Repairs 11.1 Which repairs are the landlord's responsibility? 11.2 Which repairs are the tenant's responsibility?

Section 12: Open market rent 12.1 Your own figure for the open market rent (the form asks what you think it is; this page doesn't suggest one) 12.2 Your evidence for that figure (the form lets you write it out or attach it) 12.3 Anything else you want the tribunal to take into account

Section 13: Inspection 13.1 Do you agree to the tribunal deciding without inspecting the property? If not, why an inspection is needed

Section 14: Hearing 14.1 Do you agree to the tribunal deciding without a hearing? If not, why a hearing is needed

Section 15: Hardship 15.1 Would paying the new rent from the date in the notice cause you hardship? Details (the form asks you to attach any evidence)

Section 16: Application fee 16 The fee and how it is being paid (no fee if the notice was served before 1 May 2026 or the home is social housing; otherwise £47, with help with fees possible) 16.1 Are you asking the tribunal to order the landlord to reimburse the fee? Why