80 Wood Avenue, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 6JN
CHI/29UL/MNR/2022/0075 · Folkestone and Hythe · decided 27 Jul 2022
old rules| Rent before the notice | £900 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £975 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £975 +8.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 19 Jul 2022 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 14 Jun 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, 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, particularly the photographs provided by the Tenant, it decided that it could do so. CHI/29UL/MNR/2022/0075 22. 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. … The Tribunal could not see from the photographs provided whether the windows are double glazed as claimed by the Landlord, or not, as claimed by the Tenant, although it seems from the photographs and information provided that many of the windows leak. … The Tribunal could not firmly establish whether there is off-street parking or on-street permit parking but decided that other properties in the area offering comparable evidence would likely have similar parking difficulties. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgment and knowledge of rental values in the Folkestone 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 £1,200 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.