Flat 6, 15 Park Road, KT2 6BX
LON/00AX/MNR/2023/0002 · Kingston upon Thames · decided 4 May 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,000 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,250 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,250 +25.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 May 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 24 Nov 2022 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
This is an assured tenancy under the Housing Act 1988. The rent has been £1000 per month until the time of the hearing. The Tribunal considered the submissions put forward by both parties. The tenant stated that in April 2022 there was an exchange of emails in which the landlord offered a new one year tenancy without mentioning any rental increase. By email the tenant replied accepting the offer of a new one year tenancy. He continued to pay the rent at the existing level and assumed that his tenancy would continue at that rent with the tenancy expiring in April 2023. The rent was accepted by the landlord from April 2022 onward at £1000 per month. … Subsequently, the rent increase notice was served and stated that the rent would be increased to £1250 from £1000 per month. The tenant objected and referred the matter to the Tribunal. … The Tribunal was shown copies of the email exchange and it was apparent to the Tribunal that a new tenancy had come into being at that time in that there had been an offer, acceptance of that offer and consideration, (rent). The law is clear that a tenancy for less than three years need not be fully evidenced in writing, and indeed could be granted orally, and that provided there was a proper contractual relationship as described above, then a tenancy will come into existence. …
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.