2nd Floor, Right Hand Flat, 1 Victoria Park, Dover, Kent, CT16 1QR
CHI/29UE/MNR/2023/0230 · Dover · decided 20 Nov 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £450 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £500 +11.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 5 Oct 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 16 Aug 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
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. CHI/29UE/MNR/2023/0230 21. Whilst sympathetic to the fact that the Tenant was without heating for an extended period, the Tribunal must assess the rent for the property as at the date of its decision, reflecting the new electric heating. … 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 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 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 £625 per month. … However, the property is not in a condition to command such a rent and a number of adjustments are necessary to reflect the present condition of the property which is awaiting roof, window and downpipe repairs. … In addition, the Tribunal needs to reflect the Tenant’s improvements detailed above. …
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.