61 Nelson Road, Ipswich, IP4 4DU
CAM/42UD/MNR/2024/0637 · Ipswich · decided 24 Mar 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £775 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,200 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,050 +35.5% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 5 Jan 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 24 Nov 2024 |
| 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
Given that, in the reply form completed by the Respondent Landlord, he stated that the Applicant Tenant did not have use of the garage, the Tribunal has made this determination excluding the garage. … In terms of comparable evidence, the Tribunal considered a 3 bedroom terraced property within IP4 with an asking price of £1,100 per calendar month. Additionally, it considered two further properties within IP4, namely a 3 bedroom property with 2 bathrooms with an asking rent of £1,350, and a 3 bedroom semi-detached property with 1 bathroom with an asking rent of £1,050. The Tribunal also considered the comparables provided by the Respondent Landlord, the most relevant being the property with an asking rent of £1,200 per calendar month for a 3 bedroom and 1 bathroom property within the same postcode as the Property. … Using the comparable evidence and the Tribunal’s own expert knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal considered that the open market rent for the Property in good tenantable condition would be in the region of £1,200 per calendar month. … Having inspected the Property, the Tribunal then adjusted this to £1,050 per calendar month to reflect that the Property was not to the standard that would be expected from a modern tenancy. In particular, the kitchen was dated, the ceiling in the single bedroom was damaged and the condition of the Property was tired.
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.