12 Albion Gardens, Back Young Street, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 9BF
MAN/00BL/MNR/2019/0013 · Bolton · decided 15 May 2019
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,549.82 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £377.68 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,568.67 +1.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Apr 2019 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 5 Feb 2019 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
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 next determined the rent at which the Property could reasonably be expected to be let on the open market by a willing landlord under an assured tenancy if it were let today in the condition that is considered usual for such open market lettings. … The Tribunal considered a number of comparables for one-bedroom flats in the area taken from zoopla.co.uk, with rents ranging from £107.00 to £137.00 per week, but none were genuinely comparable with the Property which has been constructed to accommodate and is within a building designed for, those with special needs. There is a very restricted market for such specialist accommodation and for that reason a considerably higher rent would be expected. Without any like comparables available in the locality, and none having been provided by the parties, the Tribunal applied a multiplier of 3 to £125.00 per week for the more typical accommodation available, providing a figure of £375.00 per week. … However, in the respects mentioned above the Property is not in the condition considered usual for a modern letting at a market rent and so the Tribunal proceeded to make a number of deductions from the hypothetical market rent of £375.00 per week to take account of relevant differences. 15.1 A deduction of £5.00 to reflect the disrepair noted above. …
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.