5 St. Catherines Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 0PP
CHI/24UP/MNR/2018/0075 · Winchester · decided 8 Jan 2019
old rules| Rent before the notice | £500.50 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £550.59 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £500.50 +0.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 3 Dec 2018 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 12 Oct 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, 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 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. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Winchester 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 £1100 per month equating to £254 per week. … However the property is not in such condition as would command this level of rent and the Tribunal decided it should make a number of adjustments comprising £100 per month for lack of heating, £100 per month for lack of hot water, £150 per month for lack of bathing facilities, £100 per month for outside wc, £80 per month for lack of adequate kitchen facilities, £30 per month to reflect access to bedroom 3 being through bedroom 2, £20 per month to reflect tenants provision of curtains carpets and white goods amenities and £20 per month to reflect inadequate electrical supplies. … Accordingly the open market rent is to be reduced by the following. …
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.