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Your landlord is appealing the tribunal's rent decision: what happens now?

You challenged your rent increase, the tribunal set a figure you can live with, and then a letter arrives: the landlord is appealing. It feels like the whole thing is being reopened. It usually is not. A landlord cannot appeal simply because they dislike the rent the tribunal set. They can only appeal on a point of law, they need permission first, and most attempts do not get past that stage. This walkthrough explains what a landlord's appeal to the Upper Tribunal actually involves, which rent you keep paying while it is pending, what (if anything) you need to do, and how to reply. England only, periodic assured tenancies.