207 Runcorn Rd., Balsall Heath, Birmingham, B12 8QY
BIR/00CN/MNR/2025/0712 · Birmingham · decided 13 Aug 2026
old ruleshousing association / affordable rent| Rent before the notice | £534.78 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £660.05 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £606.67 +13.4% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 7 Apr 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 21 Feb 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 2 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Relying on its own expert general knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal considers the market rental of the subject Property modernised and in good order would be in the order of £140 pw including the fixed 'service charge' which as stated above at para.5, is in the opinion of the Tribunal, simply a charge levied by the landlord for costs that would normally be covered by a private landlord as part of its costs for running a building. Any comparison with private rents would have to be made on a global inclusive basis irrespective of the breakdown for service charges to be a fair comparison. The exception would be if the service charges included unusual items such as personal care, but there is no evidence of that in this case. Accordingly, we determine the Market Rent as below: Market rent including service charge of £40.71 pw: £140.00 pw
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.