17 Briar Road, London SW16 4LT
LON/00AH/MNR/2025/0734 · Croydon · decided 27 Oct 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,650 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,100 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,780 +7.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 13 Mar 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 19 Jan 2025 |
| 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
Neither party, at the hearing, made significant submissions regarding the actual valuation itself. The tenant had accepted that, if the property were in a good condition, it would be worth the amount the landlord had proposed - £2,100 per calendar month (pcm) - but that in its present condition the rent should remain the same as it presently is (£1,650 pcm). … The landlord, unsurprisingly, advanced that the value he had proposed remained appropriate. … We were not provided with much evidence of value, save for the landlord providing a list of properties and their asking rents from internet property listing websites. Those listings were provided in extremely summary form, and did not provide enough detail for us to consider them, and their comparability to the subject, properly. In any case, asking rents carry very little weight as evidence of value. … Accordingly, we considered the matter in line with the evidence and submissions of the parties, and our own expert knowledge of general rental values in the area. We consider that, were the property let in good condition and on the terms considered usual for such a letting it, might be expected to fetch around £2,3oopcm. … We made no deduction for the alleged need to rewire the property. …
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.