World Wide Realty v. Boston Rent Control Administrator

The Boston rent control administrator appeals from a judgment entered in a Housing Court allowing the landlord’s entire requested rent increase and reversing the decision of the administrator that only a partial rent increase was justified. 2

In granting the landlord’s requests in full, the Housing Court judge found that the increases sought yielded a "fair net operating income,” and that the determination of value on which the administrator’s adjustment was based was "both irrational and confiscatory.” While the judge accepted some of the administrator’s decisions as to costs, he rejected…