Flat 3, 37 Lorne Park Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 1JL
HAV/00HQ/MNR/2025/0752 · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · decided 9 Oct 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £251.03 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £575 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £400 +59.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 3 Oct 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 7 Aug 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, studio |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
As indicated at paragraphs 6 to 8 above, 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 Parties are not relevant to this issue, nor is the Respondents submission that a rent increase is required to fund repairs that the property requires. The Respondent is subject to the usual statutory repairing obligations placed upon landlords regardless of the ability to increase the rent. … In the absence of any reliable market evidence from either party, the Tribunal, using its expert knowledge as a specialist 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 £575 per month. … Such an open market letting would be for a tenantable property in good order with the Landlord responsible for internal decoration and on the basis that carpets, curtains and white goods would all be provided by the Landlord. …
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.