36 Sunset Road, Totton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 3LB
CHI/24UJ/MNR/2024/0155 · New Forest · decided 31 Jul 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £476.67 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £975 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £619.67 +30.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 26 Jul 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 19 Jun 2024 |
| 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 CHI/24UJ/MNR/2024/0155 under an assured tenancy. Such a letting would normally include carpets, curtains, cooker, fridge and washing machine. Market rents are normally expressed as a figure per month. … The personal circumstances of the Parties are not relevant to this issue. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in and around Southampton, 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 £1,300 per month. … However, the Tribunal found this property to be in very poor condition and lacking many features that would command a full rent and therefore made the following deductions. …
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.