Room 5, 109 Canterbury Place, London, SE17 3AD
LON/00BE/MNR/2022/0206 · Southwark · decided 14 Feb 2023
old rulesroom in shared house| Rent before the notice | not stated |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £700 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £700 |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Jan 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 15 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 | room |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
The starting point is to determine the rent which the Landlord could reasonably be expected to obtain for the Property in the open market in the condition considered usual for a modern letting (“the initial valuation”). … There is no evidence of tenant’s improvements or of any decrease in value due to tenant failure, and therefore adjustments only needed to be made to the initial valuation to take into account (a) the actual condition of the Property and (b) the differences between the terms of this letting and the terms of a standard assured shorthold tenancy. … Applying these principles to the Property, the main issue on the evidence before the FTT is the very small size of Room 5. This justifies reducing the monthly rent from £1,000 to £775. The FTT also notes the comments made by the Tenant regarding repair and considers that this justifies reducing the rent by a further 10%. It is not considered appropriate to make a larger reduction, particularly in the light of the photographic evidence provided by the Landlord. The letting terms are normal for an assured shorthold tenancy and so there is no reason to reduce or increase the rent on the basis of the letting terms. … A reduction of 10% from £775 gives a figure of just under £700 which (as valuation is not a scientific process) has been rounded to £700. Effective date of new rent 14. …
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.