112 Offord Road, London, N1 1PF
LON/00BG/MNR/2024/0027 · Islington · decided 1 Jul 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,500 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,619 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,610 +7.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 16 Oct 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 10 Sep 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, 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
It is helpful to start by determining what is to be included in the rent. It is unclear why the Landlord decided to include council tax and water rates in the proposed new rent when it had not been included before. Council tax is the responsibility of the occupier of a dwelling. In this case, there was one council tax band for the whole building, although the Tenant informed the Tribunal, that the relevant authority had inspected with a view to separately assessing the two flats. This presumably will remove the need for the Landlord to set a rent to include council tax. … Accepting that there are single supplies of each utility to the building, rather than separate supplies to each flat, it is not clear why the Landlord is seeking reimbursement for the water rates only through the rent. The tenancy agreement says that the Tenant is responsible for both water and electricity and the Landlord submits that the Tenant “would remain liable for the electricity and any other bills”. … As a result, the Tribunal determines the market rent exclusive of council tax and water rates. … Moving on to the market rent, in assessing the rent payable under the tenancy agreement, the Tribunal first seeks to ascertain the open market rental value of the property given its size and location were it to be let in the open market, on the assumption that it is in good tenantable condition. …
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.