11 Menlo Gardens, London, SE19 3DT
LON/00AH/MNR/2024/0078 · Croydon · decided 5 Jul 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,146.86 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,623.83 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,146.86 +0.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 12 Apr 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 8 Mar 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, studio |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
The only evidence of value provided to the Tribunal was in the form of asking rents from the tenant’s representative following a search on Zoopla. Asking rents do not offer particularly strong evidence of value, indicating merely general market sentiment of which the Tribunal is already well-aware in its expert capacity. In any case, none of the asking rents provided appeared to the Tribunal to be for comparable properties to the subject property – and the tenant’s representative did not seek to speak to the comparability in particular of any of them. … The Tribunal therefore considered the value of the property in light of its own expert knowledge of rental values in the area in conjunction with the submissions of the tenant. … The Tribunal considered that, if let in the market in a good condition, the property might be expected to fetch a rent in the region of £275- £300 per week (approximately £1,200 to £1,300 per month) at the proposed date of increase. Usually, the Tribunal would then make a subjective judgement as to both a precise figure in that range to use as a 'hypothetical' starting point, and also as to the quantum of the deduction(s) to make to account for the fact the property is not in a good condition. However, in this case the Tribunal is assisted further by the rent currently passing of £264.66 per week. …
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.