2 Dobbins Lane, Wendover, HP22 6BP
CAM/00MX/MNR/2023/0177 · Buckinghamshire · decided 2 May 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,400 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £3,000 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £2,000 +42.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 26 Apr 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 22 Nov 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 4 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
This Agreement does not state that the rent of £1,400 per month would apply until such time that the Tenant vacated the Property and it does not prevent the Landlord from being able to exercise their statutory right to serve a section 13 Notice to trigger a review of the rent nor can it fetter the Tribunal’s ability to determine such matters. … The Tribunal is therefore able to proceed to determine this matter and considers that this Agreement is not relevant to the proceedings. … In accordance with sections 14 (2) and (3) of the Act, the Tribunal has disregarded the Tenant’s improvements/alterations. However, the Tribunal has taken into account the disrepair and lack of decoration that has arisen through a failure by the Landlord to comply with their contractual and statutory obligations. … In determining the market rent in respect of the Property, the Tribunal has regard to prevailing levels of rent in the general locality and achieved rental values in respect of other properties of comparable accommodation and provision that would be likely to be considered by a prospective tenant. The current rent and the period that has passed since that rent was agreed or determined is not relevant. … The legislation requires the Tribunal to have regard to market demand assuming that the landlord is willing. …
An extract. To keep people's names out, any sentence that might contain one is left out (marked …). The full reasons are in the original decision.
The original
Past decisions are not a prediction. Each tribunal decides on the evidence in front of it.