Flat 6, 102-104 Whitfield Street, London, W1T 5EB
LON/00AG/MNR/2023/0214 · Camden · decided 3 Nov 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,350 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,925 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,732.50 +28.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 7 Jun 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 18 Apr 2023 |
| 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.
From the tribunal's valuation
In the first instance the Tribunal determined what rent the Landlord could reasonably be expected to obtain for the property in the open market if it were let today in the condition that is considered usual for such an open market letting. … The only evidence of value provided by the tenant was in the form of two fair rent registrations for Flat 5, 102-104 Whitfield Street and for Flat 4, 153 Whitfield Street. Fair rent registrations are governed by Section 70 of the Rent Act 1977, and are arrived at under a very different basis from the current matter. In particular, they involve the making of a significant ‘scarcity’ deduction, and are subject to capping arrangements (both of the fair rents referred to being so capped). Fair rent registrations are in fact so unique between properties that they do not generally form good evidence for other fair rent registrations – let alone general rental valuations. In addition, both of these registrations were dated significantly before the date of the proposed rental increase, in November 2007 and July 2021 respectively. Accordingly, the Tribunal considered these registrations did not assist in the valuation of the property. …
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.