5 Gooden Court, South Hill Avenue, HA1 3PZ
LON/00AQ/MNR/2025/0849 · Harrow · decided 21 Oct 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,675 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,000 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,950 +16.4% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 6 Oct 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 29 May 2025 |
| 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 has carefully considered the written submissions provided by both parties, the oral submissions and evidence given by the Tenant at the hearing, and their own observations from the inspection. … The Tribunal noted there was evidence of mould around the windows in the bedrooms and that the Tenant had made efforts to clean these. The issue did not appear to be severe and are usual for flats of this nature. … The Tribunal was cognisant that the Tenant made efforts to keep the Property in a good condition, but it was not in the state of decoration that would be expected were it to be let in the market and as a minimum new floor coverings and redecoration would be required to bring it to the condition of other properties on the market. … Whilst the Property has no garage access, no evidence was presented to quantify the impact on rent. Not all people in London have cars and not all flats come with garage access. The Tribunal has therefore rounded down its valuation to take account of this. … Having consideration of the evidence submitted by the parties and our own expert, general knowledge of rental values in the area, we consider that the open market rent for the Property in good and tenantable condition would be in the region of £2,200 per calendar month. …
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.