9 West Street, Ilchester, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 8NN
CHI/40UD/MNR/2019/0063 · Somerset · decided 25 Nov 2019
old rules| Rent before the notice | £497.99 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £520 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £515 +3.4% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 6 Nov 2019 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 24 Sep 2019 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 2 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 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 Somerset 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. CHI/40UD/MNR/2019/0063 18. This open market rental then needs to be adjusted to reflect improvements made by and any fittings provided by the Tenant. … The Tribunal was satisfied that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenant no 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.