Flat 7, Elmlea Court, 131-133 Lodge Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 6QT
HAV/00MS/MNR/2024/0502 · Southampton · decided 21 Oct 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £725 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £850 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £800 +10.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 14 Sep 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 13 Aug 2024 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Having given consideration to the comparable evidence provided by the parties and of its own expert, general knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal determines that the open market rent for the property in good tenable condition would be in the region of £850 per calendar month. … Such a tenancy would normally include white goods, carpets and curtains/blinds to all be provided by the Landlord. … In this case the property is not let in such condition or with white goods, carpets and curtains all supplied so some adjustments to the ‘open market rent’ are necessary. In particular the Tribunal has made the adjustments for Tenant’s provision of fridge and condition of carpets. … The Tribunal therefore decided that the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under the terms of this assured tenancy was £800 per month. … The Tenant made no representation that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenant undue hardship. … Accordingly, the Tribunal directed that the new rent of £800 per month should take effect from 14th September 2024, this being the date specified in the notice.
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.