Free rent increase check
Is this rent increase even allowed?
Have your landlord's letter to hand. We check the percentage against the statutory maximum, look at whether the letter arrived in time, and tell you exactly what to do. With the objection letter included.
Takes about two minutes
No account, no charge
Calculates in your own browser
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What kind of home do you rent?
Which segment is your home in?
That depends on the basic rent when your tenancy started, not on what you pay now. If you are not sure, choose social housing: that is right for most tenants and it gives you the strongest position to start from.
Why objecting costs you almost nothing
With a social housing tenancy the burden is not on you. You send a letter to your landlord before the effective date, and from your side that is it. If your landlord still wants the increase, they have to go to the Rent Tribunal themselves to have the rent set. If they do not, the increase simply does not happen.
That is the opposite of what most people assume, and it is why sending a letter is almost always worth it. In the mid-market and private sectors it works differently: there you have to apply to the Rent Tribunal yourself, within four months of the effective date.
Where it usually goes wrong
Not only with too high a percentage. The two month notice period is often forgotten, and two increases within twelve months happens too. On top of that, an increase may never push your rent above the maximum rent that goes with your home's points total. You can check that with the free rent points check.
A note for internationals
The objection letter this tool produces is in Dutch on purpose. It goes to a Dutch landlord and the legal wording has to be exact, so you can send it as it is. Everything you need to understand it is explained here in English.
If there are also defects in your home, start with the maintenance issues check: defects only become a ground against a rent increase once a case is already running. All our tools are listed at all checks.