166 Willowherb Road, Emersons Green, Bristol, BS16 7GT
CHI/00HD/MNR/2020/0074 · South Gloucestershire · decided 20 Nov 2020
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,400 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,550 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,500 +7.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 4 Nov 2020 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 1 Oct 2020 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 4 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. Whilst the Tribunal may be sympathetic to her situation the personal circumstances of the Tenant are not relevant to this issue, that is the market rent. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties, the associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Bristol and South Gloucestershire 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. … There was no evidence of any reason why any deduction should be made from this figure to reflect the condition or any Tenant’s improvements. … The Tribunal was satisfied that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenant no undue
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.