Flat 1, 7 Furzehill Parade, Shenley Road, WD6 1DX
CAM/26UE/MNR/2025/0672 · Hertsmere · decided 29 Aug 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,400 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,750 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,750 +25.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 28 May 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 17 Apr 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
In determining the market rent, the Tribunal has regard to prevailing levels of rent in the general locality and achieved rental values in respect of other properties of comparable accommodation and provision. … The current rent, and the period that has passed since that rent was agreed or determined is not relevant. Previous changes in rent are, therefore, disregarded as the Tribunal is required to assess the rent that would be offered by a prospective tenant who has no knowledge of the existing or previous rents. Similarly, historic rents are of limited relevance. … The legislation requires the Tribunal to have regard to market demand assuming that the landlord is willing. The Tribunal is therefore unable to have any regard to the personal circumstances or identities of the actual landlord and tenant in assessing the level of rent. … It is therefore irrelevant whether or not the Landlord requires the rent to be at a certain level to fund its liabilities and/or its repair obligations under the lease or whether the Tenant feels that the services provided by the Landlord are “value for money.” As such, the cost of mortgage payments and property maintenance to the Landlord does not affect the rent that would be offered by a prospective tenant in the market and must be disregarded. …
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
This decision replaces an earlier one for the same case: 29 Aug 2025.
Past decisions are not a prediction. Each tribunal decides on the evidence in front of it.