28 Colston Road, Bristol, BS5 6AE
CHI/00HB/MNR/2021/0059 · Bristol, City of · decided 29 Jul 2021
old rules| Rent before the notice | £700 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,150 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £830 +18.6% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 6 Jun 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 6 May 2021 |
| 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
The Tribunal first considered whether it felt able to reasonably and fairly decide this case based on the papers submitted only with no oral hearing. Having read and considered the papers it decided that it could do so. The copy agreement provided to the Tribunal is assumed to cover the period 6th September 2018 to 5th September 2019. … 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. The personal circumstances of the Tenant or Landlord are not relevant to this issue. … The parties agree that an initial reduced rent of £700 per month was accepted by the Landlord on the condition that the Tenants would carry out decoration and associated repairs or minor improvements to the property. Effectively they were paid by the Landlord to carry out the works so they do not now qualify as tenant’s improvements. … That unsigned agreement submitted to the Tribunal was for twelve months which would have expired on 5th September 2019. That agreement has now run its course and the Landlord seeks an open market rent for the property in its present condition. The landlord states that the original agreement expired in September 2020. … The agreement provided suggests that it was for a twelve-month period. …
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.