7 Barnes Court, Durham Avenue, Woodford Green, IG8 7NY
LON/00BC/MNR/2019/0089 · Redbridge · decided 27 Sep 2019
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,150 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,300 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,156 +0.5% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 27 Sep 2019 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 11 Jul 2019 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 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
In coming to its decision, the tribunal had regard to the representations made by the tenant and the landlord. We are not entitled to have regard to the financial position of the landlord or of the tenant. The matters we are required to take into account are set out in section 14 of the Act which we have summarised above. … Drawing on the member’s own knowledge and experience of market rent levels in the area of Redbridge we concluded that an appropriate open market rent for the subject property in good repair and with the amenities required by the market would let at a rent of around £1250.00 per calendar month. … However, we considered this must be reduced to reflect the fact that the subject property is not in the condition considered appropriate for a modern letting at a full market rent. The tenant’s own curtains, the canopy at the front entrance, and the tenancy obligations would all affect the full market rent. In our finding a deduction around 7.5% is necessary to reflect the difference between the subject property and an open market property. This has the effect of reducing the assessed open market rent for a modernised property from £1250.00 to £1156.25 per month for the subject property. We therefore determine the rent to be rounded down to £1156.00 per month with effect from 27th September 2019. Effective date 29. …
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.