MAN/OOCG/MNR/2025/0619
A First-tier Tribunal decision on the rent for a 3-bedroom semi-detached house in S8.
- Decided
- 23 April 2025
- Postcode district
- S8
- Property
- 3-bedroom, Semi-detached house, false
- Rent before
- £1,213 a month
- Landlord proposed
- £1,993 a month
- Tribunal determined
- £1,213 a month-39.1% on the proposal
- Payable from
- 5 December 2024
What the tribunal said
The tribunal determined an unadjusted market rent of £1,400 per month (£1,200 baseline for area properties plus £200 for larger size and garage). Deductions were made comprising £30 per month for lack of landlord-provided furnishings, £70 per month for disrepair (guttering, ridge tiles, defective windows, garage roof, waste pipe, barge boards), and £80 per month for tenant improvements (new bathrooms, kitchens, gas boiler/feed, bay roof repair, garden landscaping). The adjusted rent of £1,220 per month is equivalent to £280 per week.
The property
The property has partial double glazing and gas central heating. External disrepair was noted including broken guttering, defective/shot double glazing, cracked window glass, asbestos garage roof, damaged fall pipe/waste pipe, and unpointed chimney stack and ridge tiles. The tenant had undertaken significant improvements including replacing the kitchen and bathroom twice, installing a new boiler and mains gas feed, replacing a bay window roof, landscaping the rear garden, and providing flooring, light fixtures, and sheds.
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