18 Elizabeth Street, Luton, LU1 5BN
CAM/00KA/MNR/2024/0631 · Luton · decided 10 Feb 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,280 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,700 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,345 +5.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 14 Dec 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 11 Nov 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, 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
The Tribunal found from inspecting the Property that it was suffering from damp and mould. Whilst the Tribunal accepts that the Respondent has work planned to improve the position, the Tribunal has considered the Property in light of its inspection and from hearing the evidence of both the Applicant and the Respondent. The Tribunal does not find that all of the damp and mould was caused by the Applicant’s lifestyle and the Tribunal notes in particular that the radiators at the Property were single panel and that the fans were not adequate. … Regarding the comparables submitted by the Respondent, the Tribunal notes that most of these are not in close proximity to the Property and that only one property is a terrace house in the same style as the Property. Further, the Tribunal notes that the rents submitted by the Respondent are asking rents. … Using the Tribunal’s own expert knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal considers that the open market rent for the Property in good tenantable condition would be in the region of £1,600 per calendar month. … From this level of rent the Tribunal has made a 16% adjustment to reflect the damp and mould within the Property and also the condition of the Property, in particular that the kitchen was tired and the decoration dated. …
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.