UK Landlord Forum / Life

I came across the following page from the UK government's website:

https://www.gov.uk/private-renting/rent-increases

It states:

QuoteFor a periodic tenancy (rolling on a week-by-week or month-by-month basis) your landlord can't normally increase the rent more than once a year without your agreement.

For a fixed-term tenancy (running for a set period) your landlord can only increase the rent if you agree. If you don't agree, the rent can only be increased when the fixed term ends.

I've tried in vain to find the law behind this, but I can't seem to figure it out. The page makes no references to actual law. Why can a landlord "not normally increase the rent more than once a year"? What would be illegal about writing an AST agreement that allowed the landlord to increase the rent every month after the fixed term period?

Also, it says that the landlord can increase the rent "when the fixed term ends". Does this also apply to an AST agreement where, when the fixed term ends, the agreement switches over to a month-by-month rolling basis? For example, say that the tenant signs an agreement with the landlord for a 6 month AST. At the end of the 6 months, the tenant continues to live at the property - can the landlord now increase the rent, as the fixed term is over? Thereafter, how often can they increase the rent? If it's once every 12 months, is it 12 months from the beginning of the agreement or 12 months from that first rent increase after 6 months?

Again, a pointer to the law on this would be helpful.

Are you being theoretical? If a Landlord wanted, or needed, to increase the rent more frequently wouldn't it imply they're dumb and poor at planning? The fixed term is the fixed term. The rent can be increased after the fixed term, whether they fixed term is 6 months, or not. Then a Landlord would wait a year. How will a pointer to a specific law help you?

The rent can be increased at any time with agreement. If a Landlord is increasing the rent every month a normal Tenant would protest, and not give their agreement, because their Landlord is obviously insane. Then the Landlord would resort to a Section 13 to impose the rent increase, then the Tenant would appeal and they would win because the Landlord's behaviour is odd.

Yes, with the "once a month" thing I was obviously talking hypothetically for the sake of argument.  And it looks like you're wrong from this StackExchange answer - the Housing Act 1988 only allows rent increases once a year once the fixed period of an AST has ended.

That will be imposition, via Section 13... rent can be increased at any time, if it's done by mutual agreement. Sorry.