66 Ilex Road, London, NW10 9NU
LON/00AE/MNR/2020/0095 · Brent · decided 4 Dec 2020
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £1,310.40 |
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| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,585.65 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,100 −16.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Jul 2020 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 5 May 2020 |
| 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; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
From the tribunal's valuation
The tribunal is not convinced that if this property were brought to the open market today, that a tenant would pay the rent now being sought by the landlord. We are not satisfied that this is a two-bedroom flat, notwithstanding the fact that the local authority is willing to pay the equivalent rent for it. … We find on balance that the local authority has other pressures in re-housing people from temporary accommodation. This cannot be classified as the open market, which is the rent that this tribunal must set. … We must determine whether a prospective tenant would use what is in effect a living room as a bedroom, and it may well be that they would, but this does not in our view, make the property a two bed. We find on balance that the property is a two-room flat (one bedroom, one living room), the dining area is not in a room contained by a door, and therefore is not, in our view, a proper dining room. It appears to be a small area created by a recess adjacent to the kitchen. … Having concluded that the property is a one-bed flat and, taking into account the comparables provided by the tenant, we considered that the rent passing was at the top of the range for a flat of this size in this area. As such, we set the rent at the current rent passing, making no determination of a rent increase. …
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.