5 Harbour Court, 67 West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1JZ
CHI/00HP/MNR/2023/0106 · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · decided 7 Aug 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £529.45 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £708.02 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £830.01 +56.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 3 Apr 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 20 Feb 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
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 on the date the Tribunal is held, and that the Tribunal looks for evidence on the open market where rents are normally expressed on a monthly basis. … The personal circumstances of the Parties are not relevant to this issue. CHI/ooHP/MNR/2023/0106 19. … However, the property is not let in a condition that would be normal in the open market and a number of adjustments should be made to the monthly rent to reflect this. … Relying on its own expertise the Tribunal decided that this open market rent should be reduced by £30 per month to reflect the Tenant’s provision of white goods, £20 per month for carpets, £10 per month for curtains and £10 per month to reflect the condition of the balcony. … Accordingly, the monthly rent is assessed at £830 per month which equates to £191.54 per week. … The Tribunal notes that this figure is higher than the rent assessed by the Landlord, but there is no compunction for the Landlord to charge this higher rent. …
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.