67 Windmill Lane Smethwick Birmingham B66 3ES
BIR/00CS/MNR/2024/0197 · Sandwell · decided 12 Feb 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £700 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,000 +42.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Sep 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 22 Jul 2024 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 5 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
The Tribunal does not accept the rental evidence offered by the Landlord. … Thus, the Tribunal relies on its own expert, general knowledge of rental values in the area and considers that the open market rental value for the Property in good condition would be in the region of £1,300.00 per calendar month. … However, the Property is not in a condition one would normally expect. It requires general but extensive refurbishment which would be expected as the current letting has run since 2014. The absence of such modernisation requires a downward adjustment of that market rent by £300.00 pcm. However, the Tribunal will not reduce the rental further to accommodate the outstanding repair issues noted during the inspection i.e. the damp/water ingress, as it appears that, since his acquisition of the Property, the Landlord has made recurring efforts to attend the Property to carry out repairs but has been frustrated by the Tenant.
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.