Knowle Farmhouse, Knowle Farm, Upton Cross, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 5BG
CHI/00HE/MNR/2021/0041 · Cornwall · decided 15 Jun 2021
old rules| Rent before the notice | not stated |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £800 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £850 |
| New rent takes effect | 14 May 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 14 Apr 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, 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 hypothetical willing Landlord under an assured tenancy. The personal circumstances of the Tenant 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 rural Cornwall, 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 £880 per month. … The property is not entirely what would be expected for an open market letting. The Tribunal needs to adjust this rent to reflect the Landlord’s provision of water and drainage, the Tenant’s provision of carpets, curtains and white goods and considers that an adjustment should be made to reflect the property’s location on a working farm. The Tribunal CHI/00HE/MNR/2021/0041 did not consider that the provision of one bed and one chest of drawers would materially affect the lettability of the property or the rent received. …
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.