15 Furfield Close, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9JR
CHI/29UH/MNR/2021/0058 · Maidstone · decided 29 Jul 2021
old rules| Rent before the notice | £782.95 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £975 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £900 +14.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 6 Jun 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 30 Mar 2021 |
| 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 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 Maidstone 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 £1,250 per month. … However, the property is not in such condition as would normally be expected to achieve such a rent and the Tribunal decided that a number of adjustments should be made to reflect this. … The Tribunal decided that deductions should be made for the lack of a modern Kitchen, lack of a modern Bathroom, Tenant’s provision of carpets and curtains, the Tenant’s provision of some white goods and general disrepair as evidenced in the photographs provided. CHI/29UH/MNR/2021/0058 19. …
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.