35 Chesham Road, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 3AG
LON/00AX/MNR/2022/0067 · Kingston upon Thames · decided 19 Oct 2022
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,040 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,083.33 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,070.33 +2.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 18 Jan 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 1 Dec 2020 |
| 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
In coming to its decision, the tribunal had regard to the representations made by the landlord. The main difficulty with the comparable transactions is that they represent asking rents and more significantly they are effectively over a year post valuation date. … The tribunal taking all of this into account considered that the property would be worth £1650.00 per month in the open market in fully modernised condition. However, adjustment is required for the terms and conditions, the tenant’s own carpets, curtains, white goods and its unmodernised kitchen and bathroom and poor maintenance has applied a deduction of 35%, totalling £577.00 per month. The market rent to be determined for this property is £1072.00 per month equating to £247.00 per week. Effective date 19. The revised rent would normally be payable from the date specified in the landlord’s notice,18th January 2021.However, by virtue of section 14(7) the tribunal has discretion in the case of causing undue hardship to move the commencement date to the date of the determination. Submissions were requested on the point with none received from the landlord and an e-mail dated from the tenant dated 24th July 2022.This e-mail focused on the condition of the property and the poor performance of the landlord in undertaking necessary repairs and improving the condition of the property and didn’t identify any issues of
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.