1 Stockings Farm Cottages, Falcutt, Brackley, Northampton NN13 5QY
CAM/34UG/MNR/2019/0011 · West Northamptonshire · decided 13 Aug 2019
old rules| Rent before the notice | £595 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £615 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £615 +3.4% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Aug 2019 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 13 Jun 2019 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 3 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
As neither party submitted rental values for comparable properties the Tribunal used the knowledge and experience of its member. The Tribunal found from the “On the market” internet site that one of the two neighbouring properties had been on the market at an asking rent of £825.00 per calendar month in December 2015. The neighbouring property is very similar to the Property being detached and of the same age. It is also of a similar layout and the rooms except the kitchen are the same size. … The Tribunal found from the details on the internet site and its previous decision that the neighbouring property had been renovated by the Landlord. The house had oil-fired central heating and the kitchen had been extended into the reconstructed attached brick outbuilding and a cloakroom and w.c had been created off the hall. Both kitchen and bathroom had been fully modernised and re-fitted. The wooden floors had been removed and the voids had been filled creating a solid floor, which was believed to have remedied the damp problems. Floorcoverings had also been provided but not white goods. Although these renovations had been undertaken in about 2010, they made the neighbouring property significantly more attractive to a tenant than the Property. …
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.