Tribunal Rent Decision – HUGE Valuation Discrepancy?

Reply to the comment left by Seething Landlord at 29/09/2025 – 11:18
Pain-in-the-arse tenant database;

https://www.gov.uk/residential-property-tribunal-decisions

Quick search for any prospective tenant who can’t come to a reasonable rent increase agreement without a Tribunal.

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 29/09/2025 – 20:18
The Renters Rights Bill will make it a no (immediate) risk no brainer for existing tenants to challenge rent increases but searching the database could become a feature of pre-tenancy vetting.

Perhaps a standard question to ask on a tenancy application form should be “have you ever made an application to a rent tribunal?”

Reply to the comment left by Seething Landlord at 29/09/2025 – 20:43
what’s the point asking that. Tenants lie. You would still need to check the D’base to be sure and then at the same time you alert other tenants there is a system there they can challenge for free (who might not be aware).

Keep it quiet I say but make sure you are armed with the info you need (including previous decisions) to back your own case should it be needed.

Let the government apparently ’empower’ tenants, we just need to store the ammo to return fire and defend.

Like Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, the Renters Rights Bill will have serious unintended consequences. Employers will be more stringent about who they employ, and landlords will be more stringent about who they let to.

Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 30/09/2025 – 09:46
How long do you think it will be before the S13 notice includes a clause alerting tenants to their right to challenge the increase and telling them how to do it? Maybe it already does, I haven’t checked.

If you take the view that there is no point asking questions because tenants will only lie, you might as well not ask anything. My view is that uncovering lies on an application form is one of the best ways to weed out unsuitable tenants.

Reply to the comment left by Seething Landlord at 30/09/2025 – 15:05
It will be highlighted in the How to Rent checklist if not already in the section 13 notice.
Uncovering lies on the application form can only be a good idea.

Reply to the comment left by Stella at 30/09/2025 – 15:15
Unless you’re Rachel from Complaints

thank you all for the useful information and insights , i will give this some thought and hopefully help me to get best result with tribunal in future

This is why section 21 neefed to be more strengthened otherwise the current system is encouraging all kind of different routes to tenants to make landlords life even more difficult which will slow the economy growth further by private sector exiting the market. The abolishen of section 21 encourage bad tenants to be even more difficult to remove also these type of tenants should be aware that they with CCJ or bad record will never be able to purchase thier own home or be considered by government’s social housing ever other than go and sit on the government door step aaking for to housed for the rest of thier life. In my view good landlord do not evict good tenant instead they worry about loosing them. Not sure when the people who make these law are going to wake up and stop the abolotion of section21 to establish better society for all concerned.
Joe

It is a sad reflection of the RRB, combined with all the other regulation and the likelihood that I will have to pay National Insurance after the next budget, that means that we all have to maximise our incomes; no longer just charging what we feel is mutually acceptable for both the landlord and the tenant. It is the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Seeing this coming, last year I raised all my rents to the maximum I felt was achievable; much to the irritation of my tenants. Going forward I will increase every year in line with the statistics now provided by the ONS for rental properties in my area. https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/housingpriceslocal/E06000018/
So if I was raising rents this month, in my area it would be by 7.5%, and a tenant would be hard pressed to resist that, since it is an ONS figure. Time will tell what it will be in February when I send my annual letters out in time for April. But for sure, it will be at the full amount as if the following year it is much smaller, I won’t be allowed to raise it higher even if there are additional costs caused by Ed Milliband or Rachel from accounts.