455 Lynmouth Avenue, Morden, SM4 4SA
LON/00BA/MNR/2023/0447 · Merton · decided 19 Mar 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £504 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,700 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,210 +140.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 19 Mar 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 21 Sep 2023 |
| 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
Having consideration of our own expert general knowledge of rental values in the Morden area, we consider that the open market rent for the property if it were in good marketable condition with reasonably modern kitchen and bathroom, double glazing, modern services, carpets and curtains and white goods supplied by the landlord would be £2,200 per month. Using our own expertise, we considered that deductions of 45% should applied to take into account the terms of the tenancy, and the actual current condition of the property as seen on inspection. This provides a deduction of £990 per month from the hypothetical rent. This reduces the figure to £1,210 per month. It should be noted that this figure cannot be a simple arithmetical calculation and is not based upon capital costs but is the tribunal’s estimate of the amount by which the rent would need to be reduced to attract a tenant. … The Tribunal determines a rent of £1,210 per calendar month.
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.