How the rent range is worked out
Each rent review shows a defensible range for the home, and where your proposal sits against it, with the evidence behind it.
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The defensible range is the rent a tribunal is likely to accept for this home, worked out from local evidence. Your proposal is shown against it, with a risk level.
Who this is for: letting agencies and landlords.
The defensible range for this home.
The tribunal decisions behind the range.
What you are deciding
Whether to propose a rent inside the range, or above it with a reason.
Your options
- Inside the range. Low risk: the evidence supports it.
- Above the range. Higher risk: if the tenant refers it, the tribunal is more likely to set a lower rent. It cannot set a higher one than you proposed.
- Change the figure. Select Change the figure on the review to price a different rent.
How to do it
- Open the rent review.
- Read Defensible range and where your proposal sits.
- Scroll to Determinations this is based on to see the like-for-like tribunal decisions, each linked.
- Read Validity to see the notice period and the 52-week check.
- Change the figure, or keep it and send it for approval.
Where the figures come from
Achieved rents for similar homes, checked against the ONS private rents index for the area. Tribunal decisions are shown for risk: there are too few like-for-like decisions in most districts to set a rent from them alone.
A worked example
8 Parkhills Road is let at £880.00 a month. The agency proposes £965.00 from 15 January 2027. The review shows a defensible range of £880.00 to £930.00, so the proposal is above the band and marked high risk. The agency changes the figure to £930.00, the review moves to medium risk, and it goes to the landlord.
What Abide.Rent does for you
- Prices the proposal against local evidence.
- Links each tribunal decision it shows.
- Shows the risk on the review the landlord approves.
If something goes wrong
- “No like-for-like determinations (same bedrooms and house type) in this district.”
What to do: There are no matching decisions. The range uses local rents; decisions are shown for context only. - “Furnishing is not on this file, so it cannot be matched.”
What to do: Record whether the property is furnished on its Edit tab.
Common mistakes
- Treating the middle of the range as a target price. It is a starting point, not a price.
What to do next
More in Rent reviews
What the tribunal can and cannot doThe tribunal decides the market rent. It cannot set more than the landlord proposed, cannot backdate, and can delay the start for hardship.
Area statistics and tribunal decisionsArea statistics show what tribunals did in each postcode district. The decisions list holds every published decision. Both show risk, not a rent.
Using tribunal decisions to sense-check a proposed rentPublished tribunal decisions show how proposed increases have fared when challenged. Use them to judge risk, not to set the price.