Residential tenancies

Residential tenancies

In a number of cases recently, the courts have held that in these days it is not only possible but entirely appropriate in the majority of cases for Rent Officers and Rent Assessment Committees to at least commence the process of determining a "fair rent", for properties let on regulated tenancies under the Rent Act 1977, by considering open market comparables readers are referred to: Curtis v. London Rent Assessment Committee [1997] 4 AllER 842; [1998] 15 WF 120; Northumberland and Durham Property Trust Ltd v. London RAC (No. 2) 1998 24 EG 128; Northumberland and Durham Property Trust Ltd v. Chairman of the London RAC [1998] 43 EG 138.