First Floor Flat, 1 Deans Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH5 2DA
CHI/00HN/MNR/2023/0165 · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · decided 21 Aug 2023
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £750 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £900 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £840 +12.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 22 Jun 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | not stated |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 2 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
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 as at the date of it’s decision. The personal circumstances of the Tenant nor Landlord 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 Bournemouth, the Tribunal decided that the market rent for the subject property CHI/00HN/MNR/2023/0165 if let today in a condition that was usual for such an open market letting would be £1,000 per month. … However, the property is not let in such a condition as to command such a full market rent and a number of adjustments are deemed necessary. … The Tribunal decided that a deduction of £75 per month should be made to reflect damp/decoration issues, £50 per month to reflect worn carpets, £20 per month to reflect that not all white goods are provided and £15 per to reflect the Tenant’s provision of curtains. … The full open market rent of £1,000 per month is therefore reduced by a total of £160 per month. …
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.