Flat 2, 25 College Hill Road, Harrow, London, HA3 7HG
LON/00AQ/MNR/2025/0604 · Harrow · decided 9 Apr 2025
old rulesbills included| Rent before the notice | £1,250 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,660 +32.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 9 Apr 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 6 Nov 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
Both parties had provided their evidence, they averred, simply to assist the Tribunal in making its determination of the rent, which they both said they left largely to us. Relevantly to establishing the value of the property itself, the tenant’s evidence consisted of the report from the local letting agent discussed above, and the landlord’s of a letter from a local letting agent setting out their proposed marketing approach and an indicated range of £2,100pcm to £2,500pcm. … We were grateful for that evidence, which we had regard to, but none of it holds much weight as evidence. Asking rents carry very little weight as evidence of value, and in this case the report we were provided by the tenant cannot be said to be a focussed exercise that might be of real assistance – and in any case didn’t actually provide details of any 2 bed flats (as we have found above that is how the market would consider this property vacant and to let). Instead, that report included only 3 bed and 1 bed properties – the latter presumably on the basis the tenant believed the property only had planning permission as a 1 bed flat (as we will come onto later). … As regards the letter from a local letting agent provided by the landlord, this again carries very little weight. …
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.