Flat 9, 59 Drayton Gardens, London, SW10 9RU
LON/00AW/MNR/2022/0155 · Kensington and Chelsea · decided 17 May 2023
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | not stated |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £3,000 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £3,000 |
| New rent takes effect | 29 Sep 2022 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 8 Aug 2022 |
| 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; 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
Having heard the evidence of the parties, the Tribunal is satisfied that the Notice dated 23rd June 2022 is accepted as valid by both parties and that the matter is to proceed on the basis that the tenancy is now monthly and that a monthly rent is to be assessed. … Further, the Tribunal is satisfied that the tenancy agreement does not allow the passing of service charge from the landlord to the tenant and that any rent to be assessed is inclusive thereof and is thus in line with the majority of Assured Shorthold Tenancy lettings in the open market. … In assessing the rent payable under the tenancy agreement, the Tribunal first seeks to ascertain the open market rental value of the property of this size, in this location were it to be let in the open market today in a condition average for this category of property. … The evidence provided by the parties has been useful but also has its limitations. … The evidence provided by the respondent was of properties that have been extensively modernised and refitted by comparison with the subject property. … The tribunal has therefore attributed the appropriate weight to the evidence provided. … Overall, the opinion of the Tribunal is that the property is an exceptionally large mansion flat in a sought-after area of Central London. …
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.