18 SWANHILL LANE, PONTEFRACT WF8 2SE
MAN/00DB/MNR/2022/0051 · Wakefield · decided 16 Jan 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £575 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £725 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £700 +21.7% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 19 Mar 2022 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 14 Feb 2022 |
| 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 Respondent provided photographs of similar three bedroomed semi detached houses to let in the area at asking rents of £750 to £900 per month. No details were provided to enable the Tribunal to determine whether or which of these were true comparables. … She also calculated what the rent would be if an RPI increase had been added year on year during the tenancy. However in order to determine the market rent for the property the Tribunal is required only to consider the rents that can be achieved locally for comparable housing. … The Applicant referred to 21 Swanhill Lane, an extended property offering considerably larger accommodation than hers, which she said was let at £595 per month. However the Tribunal was not provided with any details as to the basis of this letting or when the rent was last reviewed. … A property on the market to let can be expected to be in reasonable letting order, newly decorated and with carpets, curtains and white goods. The subject property’s fridge freezer was provided by the Applicant. The property, including the garden, would have required refurbishment if it were to attract the best market rent. …
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.