35 York Street, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO31 7BS
CHI/00MW/MNR/2018/0077 · Isle of Wight · decided 10 Jan 2019
old rules| Rent before the notice | £650 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £758.33 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £650 +0.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 12 Dec 2018 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 9 Nov 2018 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 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 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. … Thus in the first instance the Tribunal determined what rent the landlord could reasonably be expected to obtain for the property in the open market if it were let today on the terms and in the condition that is considered usual for such an open market letting. The Tribunal was assisted by the comparables submitted by the Landlord but also we relied on our own knowledge of general rent levels for this type of property and determined that the starting point for a four-storey house with steep stairs should be £173.00 per week. … However, the rent referred to in the above paragraph is on the basis of a modern open market letting where the tenant has no liability to carry out decorations and the landlord supplies white goods, carpets and curtains. … In this case the Tenant supplies their own white goods, carpets and curtains and the terms of this tenancy require the tenant to carry out internal decorations so a deduction must be made for these differences. The Tribunal has therefore made the following deductions from the starting point of £173.00 per week. a. Decorating obligations £8.00 b. Carpets & curtains £11.50 c. …
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.