Flat 58, Axis House, 242 Bath road, Hayes, UB3 5AY
Condition: Second floor one-bedroom flat, part-furnished, with reported long-standing lift outages affecting the building.
Evidence considered
- Neither party submitted comparable rental evidence
- Tribunal relied on its own expert knowledge of local rental values to assess market rent
- Tenant's point about Universal Credit housing allowance (£1,300) was disregarded as irrelevant to open market rent
Tenant submitted evidence: no. Landlord submitted evidence: no.
Tribunal's reasoning
The tribunal determined the market rent using its own expert knowledge of local rental values in the absence of any comparable evidence from either party, concluding the property was representative of an open market rental property requiring no adjustment. It found the market rent equalled the existing passing rent of £1,400 pcm, rejecting the landlord's proposed increase to £1,500 pcm, and the tenant's reliance on the Universal Credit housing allowance was held irrelevant to the open market rent assessment.
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