Comparables in fair rents
Comparables in fair rents
- 1995
- Times 9 August 1995, 26(1) .
In "Spath Holme v Greater Manchester and Lancashire Rent Assessment Committee", CA 19 July 1995, it was held that when determining fair rents in respect of flats let on regulated tenancies a rent assessment committee erred in law in failing to appreciate that a fair rent was the market rent, and in concluding that assured tenancy rents for identical flats in the same block could not be used for comparables. Appeal by Greater Manchester Rent Committee dismissed.
ASSURED TENANCIES
FAIR RENTS
MARKET RENTS
RENT ACT 1977
SCARCITY
SPATH HOLME LTD V GREATER MANCHESTER AND LANCASHIRE RENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
In "Spath Holme v Greater Manchester and Lancashire Rent Assessment Committee", CA 19 July 1995, it was held that when determining fair rents in respect of flats let on regulated tenancies a rent assessment committee erred in law in failing to appreciate that a fair rent was the market rent, and in concluding that assured tenancy rents for identical flats in the same block could not be used for comparables. Appeal by Greater Manchester Rent Committee dismissed.
ASSURED TENANCIES
FAIR RENTS
MARKET RENTS
RENT ACT 1977
SCARCITY
SPATH HOLME LTD V GREATER MANCHESTER AND LANCASHIRE RENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE