87 Dover Avenue, Banbury, Oxon, OX16 0JH
CAM/38UB/MNR/2025/0791 · Cherwell · decided 19 Jan 2026
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,100 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,400 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,290 +17.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Jan 2026 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 10 Oct 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 2 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
The Tribunal first considered whether it felt able to reasonably and fairly decide this case based on the papers submitted with no inspection but with an oral hearing. Having read and considered the papers and given the information provided at the hearing it decided that it could do so. … The Tribunal is required to determine the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under an assured tenancy at the date specified in the notice proposing a new rent. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in BanBury, the Tribunal decided that the market rent for the subject property if let today in a condition that was usual for such an open market letting would be £1,350 per month. This takes into account the lack of any parking. CAM/38UB/MNR/2025/0791 30. Such an open market letting would be for a tenantable property in good order with the Landlord responsible for internal decoration and on the basis that carpets, curtains and white goods would all be provided by the Landlord. … In this case the Landlord does not supply a washing machine or fridge, the Tenant has contributed to some flooring and carpets, and there are some general wants of repair. …
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.