79 Rutland Gardens London N4 1JW
LON/00AP/MNR/2024/0063 · Haringey · decided 28 Aug 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £2,500 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £3,000 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £3,000 +20.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 28 Feb 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 12 Jan 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, 5 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
The Tribunal notes that the five tenants were in place at the time of the previous Notice of Increase in Rent and remain the same at the subject Notice of Increase in Rent. … The Tribunal finds there is one tenancy, albeit in the absence of a tenancy agreement. The Tribunal joins the applications together into one which seeks to challenge the level of rent in the Notice. … The Tribunal has carefully considered all the submissions before it. … The Tribunal determines a market rent for a property by reference to rental values generally and, in particular, to the rental values for comparable properties in the locality. The Tribunal has no regard to the current rent and the period of time for which that rent has been charged, nor does it take into account the percentage increase which the proposed rent represents to the passing rent. In addition, the legislation makes it clear that the Tribunal is unable to account for the personal circumstances of either the Landlord or the Tenant. … The date the Tribunal assesses the rent is the effective date in the Landlord’s Notice, which is the 28 February 2024. The Tribunal disregards any improvements made by the Tenants but considers the impact on rental value of disrepair, due to the Tenant's failure to comply with the tenancy terms or the Landlord's failure to repair. …
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.