Flat D, 59 High Road, Willesden Green, London, NW10 2SU
LON/00AE/MNR/2019/0082 · Brent · decided 26 Jan 2020
old rules| Rent before the notice | £710.50 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,200 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £887.50 +24.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 7 Jul 2019 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 13 May 2019 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 3 bedrooms |
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 did not find the landlords’ comparables helpful as these related to 4 bedroomed properties with 2 bathrooms. The Tribunal also rejected the tenant’s comparable which appeared to relate to 2017. … This was some distance from the subject property but the closest comparable in terms of accommodation. The Tribunal therefore accepted it, subject to adjustment. The Tribunal firstly adjusted it by £75 pcm to reflect the fact that this had 2 double bedrooms as against the subject property which only had one. This gave an adjusted rent of £1,775 pcm. However, this sum related to a modern market letting of the property in the condition considered usual for such a letting. The subject property was not in such a condition and the Tribunal was therefore required to make adjustments to reflect the actual condition of the property. It was also necessary for the Tribunal to reflect the more onerous terms and conditions relating to an assured tenancy as compared to an assured shorthold tenancy (as the usual basis of modern lettings) and the absence of landlords’ white goods. … The Tribunal did not identify any relevant improvements to be disregarded having regard to section 14 of the Act (see above). …
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.