41 St Andrews View, Taunton, Somerset, TA2 6JU
CHI/40UE/MNR/2024/0078 · Somerset · decided 31 May 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £625 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £850 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £800 +28.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Apr 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 28 Feb 2024 |
| 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
Having carefully considered all the evidence from the Landlord and the Tenant the Tribunal considers that an achievable rent for the property in a good marketable condition with reasonably modern kitchen and bathroom fittings, modern services with carpets curtains and white goods provided by the Landlord would be £850 per month This figure is based upon the comparable evidence provided by the Landlord and the Tribunal’s professional judgement and experience. 11 The Tribunal has considered carefully the parties submissions and using its own expertise, we consider a deduction of £50 should be applied to take into account for the dated condition of the fittings, the poor condition of the carpets, and no curtains and white goods. This reduces the rental figure to £800 per month. It should be noted that this figure cannot be a simple arithmetical calculation and is not based on capital costs but is the Tribunal’s estimate of the amount by which the rent would need to be reduced to attract a tenant. 12 The average rent for rental properties in the Taunton area has increased every quarter since the end of 2020, according to the online property portal Rightmove. The rent increases are due to not enough properties coming to the market to meet demand and the number of homes for rent is 46 per cent below 2020 levels. This puts this decision in context with the current rental market. …
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.