Flat 2, 5 Herbert Road, Southsea, Hampshire, PO4 0QA
CHI/00MR/MNR/2021/0098 · Portsmouth · decided 6 Jan 2022
old rules| Rent before the notice | £411.66 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £760 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £615 +49.4% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Sep 2021 |
| 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, 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. The personal circumstances of the Tenant are not relevant to this issue. … To achieve this level of rent for a one-bedroom flat the property would be expected to be in good modern order with carpets, curtains and white goods all included. … The Tribunal considered that some adjustments to an open market rent of £725 per month should be made to reflect the absence of some white goods and the now dated nature of the bathroom and kitchen. The Tribunal did not consider that the furniture provided would merit additional rent. … The Tenant made no representation that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenant 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.