Flat 9b Aberdeen Road, Harrow, HA3 7NF
LON/00AQ/MNR/2024/0333 · Harrow · decided 28 Oct 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,200 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,680 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,200 +0.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 26 Jun 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 29 Apr 2024 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 2 bedrooms |
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 we determined what rent the landlord could reasonably be expected to obtain for the property in the open market if it were let on the proposed increase date in the condition and on the terms that are considered usual for such an open market letting. … The tenants provided details of 8 asking rents in their written submissions. Asking rents carry very low weight as evidence, and particularly in cases such as this where they show a wide range of values (£1,350pcm to £1,650pcm) having been selected merely on the basis, it appears, that they share the same council tax band as the subject property. In addition, the details provided concerning each property referred to are sparse, and don’t offer us enough to meaningfully compare them with the subject property (although, a number of them appear, even from the limited information provided, to be from incomparable properties). … In any case, at the hearing, the tenant did not speak particularly to the asking rents they had provided, and instead offered that the best evidence of value was the rent the tenants were paying at the property, as they averred that there would be no real market for the property due to its condition and the lack of parking. …
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.