79 Watcombe Road, London, SE25 4XA
LON/00AH/MNR/2024/0643 · Croydon · decided 7 Apr 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,083.33 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,148.33 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,121.08 +3.5% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 25 Oct 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 1 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 | 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
Taking into account the lack of modernisation and the general disrepair, the Tribunal considers it necessary to adjust that market rental value to reflect specifically the following: i) There is no central heating within the property. ii) There is inadequate electrical installation by modern standards. iii) The kitchen is inadequate by modern standards. iv) The bathroom is inadequate by modern standards. v) There is extensive evidence of penetrating damp and rot and defective plaster throughout the property. … The property is in dire need of decoration internally and externally and carpets and curtains are now at the point where they require replacement. … Taking these and other more general factors into consideration, the Tribunal finds that it is necessary to make a 49% deduction in the market rental value of the property to reflect its condition and lack of modernisation.
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.