Rent Increase – including Section 13 Notice (Wales)

Summary

Want to increase the rent tenants pay? Let us show you step-by-step how to make a rent increase.

Landlords often struggle to understand how they can make a rent increase legally. The rent tenants pay can be increased simply and easily. There are two procedures you can follow to make a rent increase and all you need for both are included.

Find out how to make a rent increase using our template legal forms: a Rent Increase Agreement and a Section 13 Notice of a Rent Increase.

Making a rent increase is a simple process, and if followed correctly, is legally binding for both landlord and tenant. Landlords cannot increase the rent during the course of the fixed term of an Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement.

But after the fixed term of the tenancy agreement has expired (and the tenancy is in the statutory periodic tenancy) there are two simple procedures for the landlord to make a rent increase.

The simplest way to make a rent increase is to make a Rent Increase Agreement with your tenant. The rent your tenant pays will then be increased.

Failing this, you could serve a Section 13 Rent Increase Notice on your tenant to make your rent increase. We include both legal forms and comprehensive guidance on how to raise the rent tenants pay.

The key part of the Section 13 Rent Increase Notice is the date that the rent increase comes into force. This rent increase date must be at least 12 months after the date the tenant first entered the property and must also be at least 12 months after the last rent increase. It must be at least one month from the date of serving the Section 13 Rent Increase Notice and must be on the day when rent is due to be paid.

Once the tenant receives this Section 13 Rent Increase Notice they can ask the Rent Assessment Committee to review the rent increase. If you have made a rent increase in line with other market values, you need not worry about this unduly.

Make sure your rent increase goes through as smoothly as possible with Lawpack’s Rent Increase Legal Forms.

Please note there are separate legal forms for making a rent increase in England.