22 Sapphire Close, Tuffley, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 0RR
CHI/23UE/MNR/2023/0198 · Gloucester · decided 4 Sep 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £875 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £950 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £950 +8.6% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 9 Sep 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 25 Jul 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 3 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 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 Tribunal assessed this on the basis that there are 3 different spaces on the ground floor comprising a Kitchen, Dining Area and Living Area. The personal circumstances of the parties are not relevant to this issue. CHI/23UE/MNR/2023/0198 20. Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence, and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in the Gloucester area, 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 £1,100 per month. … However, the property is not let in a condition to command such an open market rent so that a number of adjustments to this open market rent should be made to reflect the Tenant’s provision of some white goods, that the Tenant felt it necessary to replace floorings and the general disrepair as evidenced by the photographs provided. …
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.