Flat 1, 31 Granada Road, Southsea, Hampshire, PO4 0RD
CHI/00MR/MNR/2021/0147 · Portsmouth · decided 3 Mar 2022
old rules| Rent before the notice | £650 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £850 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £850 +30.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 25 Dec 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 2 Nov 2021 |
| 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.
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’s sole function is required to determine the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market at today’s date by a willing Landlord under an assured tenancy. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence, and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Southsea and Portsmouth, 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 £1,000 per month. … However, the property is not let in such condition as to command this full rent and a number of adjustments should be made to reflect this. … 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.