3 Aspen Drive, Whitfield, Dover, Kent, CT16 2EX
CHI/29UE/MNR/2022/0071 · Dover · decided 18 Aug 2022
old rules| Rent before the notice | £913.87 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,250 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,300 +42.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 26 Jun 2022 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 6 May 2022 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 4 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 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 judgment and knowledge of rental values in the Dover 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 £1,300 per month. CHI/29UE/MNR/2022/0071 21. This rent of £1,300 per month takes into account the lack of curtains provided by the Landlord. … The Tribunal is aware that this rent is slightly higher than the rent suggested by the Landlord in the original Notice. The Landlord is not obliged to charge this higher rent. Determination 23. The Tribunal therefore decided that the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under the terms of this assured tenancy was £1,300 per month. …
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.