17 Homeview, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 3NE
CHI/29UM/MNR/2021/0012 · Swale · decided 10 May 2021
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £725 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £850 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £780 +7.6% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 20 Apr 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 9 Jan 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; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
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 Sittingbourne the Tribunal decided that the market rent for a property with similar accommodation if let today in a condition that was usual for such an open market letting would be £900 per month. … The Tribunal decided that an adjustment to this rent should be made to reflect the difficult parking in such a narrow street where the house stands flush to the pavement. Further deductions should be made to reflect that one bedroom is accessed through another room and that the Applicant provides the white goods. … The Tenant made no representation that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenant undue
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.