192A School Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, West Midlands B28 8PA
BIR/00CN/MNR/2018/0049 · Birmingham · decided 27 Nov 2018
old rules| Rent before the notice | £600 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £700 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £520 −13.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 10 Aug 2018 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 4 Aug 2018 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 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
15 The first issue to be addressed by the Tribunal in this type of case is to determine the rent at which the Property might reasonably be expected to let in the open market if it were let (i) at the date of the Landlord’s notice of proposed increase in rent, and (ii) in a condition which would be considered usual for such an open market letting. … 17 Accordingly, the Tribunal considered that in a good state of repair and condition, with a conventional layout, good quality decorations, carpets, curtains and white goods and separately metered services, the rental value of the subject property would be in the order of £600 pcm. However, significant adjustments needed to be made to that figure to allow for the particular characteristics and deficiencies observed by the Tribunal at the time of inspection as more particularly detailed above. In summary, these comprise: a. Loose light fittings in the kitchen. b. Broken smoke detector in the kitchen. c. Bare plaster boxing in the kitchen housing the extractor vent from the retail premises below. d. Signs of leakage from the boxing in the kitchen. e. No door from the kitchen to living room. f. Irregular shaped living room. g. Badly fitted glazing unit to one of the windows in living room. h. Crack to the wall adjoining the stairs to second floor. i. Loose fitting light fitting on the second floor landing. j. …
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.