50 The Chase, Ickenham, Middlesex, UB10 8ST
LON/00AS/MNR/2024/0124 · Hillingdon · decided 2 Sep 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £810 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £875 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £875 +8.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 3 Mar 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 29 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, 2 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 improvements carried out by the Tenants predecessor fall to be inherited by the landlord on succession and form part of the landlord's property from that point. The improvements carried out by the current tenant remain excluded from the landlord's property for the purposes of the determination of the rent. … 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 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 3 March 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.