79 Hogshill Lane, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 2AH
CHI/43UB/MNR/2021/0120 · Elmbridge · decided 9 Dec 2021
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,150 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,200 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,200 +4.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Nov 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 23 Sep 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, 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 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 the 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 £1,300 per month. … The Tribunal needs to reflect by way of a deduction in rent, any improvements to the property made by the existing Tenant. There is established case law that a Tenant of a statutory tenancy by succession, CHI/43UB/MNR/2021/0120 as in this case, is not entitled to the benefit of the disregard of improvements carried out before he became the Tenant. Accordingly, the improvements carried out by the Tenant’s mother before her death are not to be reflected by any discount to the new rent fixed by this or any subsequent Tribunal. …
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.