Flat 4 St Augustine Court, Lynton Road, London, SE1 5DP
LON/00BE/MNR/2024/0147 · Southwark · decided 31 Jul 2024
old ruleshousing association / affordable rent| Rent before the notice | £973.34 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,383.20 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,300 +33.6% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 19 Apr 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 9 Feb 2024 |
| 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
The Tribunal has carefully considered all the submissions before it. … 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 at which the Tribunal assesses the rent is the effective date contained within the landlord’s Notice which, in this instance, is the 19 April 2024. The Tribunal disregards any improvements made by the tenants but has regard to the impact on rental value of disrepair which is not due to a failure of the tenant to comply with the terms of the tenancy. … In the first instance, the Tribunal determined what rent the Landlord could reasonably be expected to obtain for the property in the open market, if it were let on the effective date and in the condition that is considered usual for such a market letting. … The Tribunal weighed the parties’ comparable evidence against its own expert knowledge as a specialist Tribunal. …
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.