37 Lodge Causeway, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JA
CHI/00HB/MNR/2023/0240 · Bristol, City of · decided 6 Dec 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,050.09 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,255 +19.5% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 27 Oct 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 19 Sep 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, 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 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 Parties are not relevant to this issue. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Bristol 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 £1,500 per month. CHI/00HB/MNR/2023/0240 20. However, the property is not in a condition to command such a rent and the Tribunal decided that it should make an adjustment to reflect this noting that the tenancy began more than 8 years ago. … The Tribunal decided that further adjustments should be made to reflect the EPC rating, that the floors are mostly boards and that curtains were not provided. … The Tribunal did not consider that the furniture supplied would increase the rental value by a significant amount as the vast majority of tenants have their own furniture. …
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.