5 High Barnes Close, Northampton, NN4 5BH
Condition: No specific condition issues noted; standard repair obligations applied under the tenancy and Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.
Evidence considered
- Tenant referred to 7 comparable properties and the rent paid by an immediate neighbour, proposing figures ranging from £1,209 to £1,275 pcm
- Landlord's letting agent re-let the property to a new tenant at £1,325 pcm from September, which the tribunal treated as the best evidence (actual achieved rent for the subject property)
- Tribunal also applied its own knowledge and expertise of market evidence around the effective date to adjust the September letting figure downward to £1,300 pcm
Tenant submitted evidence: yes. Landlord submitted evidence: yes.
Tribunal's reasoning
The landlord's notice proposed increasing rent from £1,225 to £1,350 pcm. The tribunal gave greatest weight to the actual achieved letting of the same property to a new tenant at £1,325 pcm some four months after the effective date, but also had regard to other market evidence around the effective date itself. Balancing these, it determined a market rent of £1,300 pcm effective from the notice date.
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