4 Scriven Court, Willen, Milton Keynes, MK15 9NA
Condition: Modern detached house with numerous minor defects including poorly fitted flooring, water ingress, blown glazing units, conservatory disrepair, and unsafe decking, reflecting general lack of maintenance.
Evidence considered
- Landlord cited an advertised (not let-achieved) rent of £2,250 for a comparable 4-bed detached house in Aldrich Drive, Willen, given little weight as no evidence of rent actually achieved
- Tenant suggested a rental value of £1,800 for the property in good order
- Tribunal found little or no evidence of comparable recently let properties from either party and relied on its own knowledge of local rental values
- Tribunal applied itemised deductions totalling £250/month from its assessed good-condition market rent of £1,950 to reflect specific defects
Tenant submitted evidence: no. Landlord submitted evidence: yes.
Tribunal's reasoning
The tribunal determined that the property, if let today in a condition usual for an open market letting, would command £1,950 per month. It then deducted £250 for specific identified defects (missing skirtings/general disrepair, blown glazing units, conservatory defects, and dangerous decking), arriving at a market rent of £1,700 per month. Little comparable evidence was provided by either party, so the tribunal relied substantially on its own knowledge of local rental values, with the tenant's personal circumstances and historic resolved issues disregarded as irrelevant to market rent.
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