35 Chesham Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 3AG
LON/00AX/MNR/2019/0076 · Kingston upon Thames · decided 23 Aug 2019
old rules| Rent before the notice | £946.83 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,850.33 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,451.67 +53.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 24 Jun 2019 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 30 May 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, 3 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 effect of the Housing Act 1988 is that tenants’ improvements are only to be disregarded if they meet the conditions set out at section 14(2) and (3) (see above). In particular, they must be carried out within the duration of an assured tenancy. Improvements carried out during a previous Rent Act tenancy cannot be disregarded when assessing rental value in respect of an assured tenancy. The practical effect of this in the present case is that only improvements carried out since February 2019 fall to be disregarded. The Tribunal did not identify any works in that category. … In terms of rental value, the tribunal preferred the recent letting of 42 Cobham Road to the other comparables. This was physically very close to the subject property. The Tribunal did not find the tenant’s comparables to be helpful. … As to 42 Cobham Road, extracts of a tenancy agreement were provided confirming the rent and the tenancy commencement date of 27 August 2019. The Tribunal noted from its external view that this being Edwardian was more modern than the subject property but was also semi-detached. The Tribunal considered that these advantages and disadvantages balanced out and that the starting point should be £1,940 per calendar month for the subject property, had it been available for letting in a condition considered usual for a modern letting. …
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.