Flat 9, 59 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9RU
LON/00AW/MNR/2023/0364 · Kensington and Chelsea · decided 15 Apr 2025
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £3,000 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £3,975 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £3,300 +10.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 29 Sep 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 23 Jun 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, 4 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
It is unlikely to come as a surprise to the parties, we think, that this Tribunal takes similar views as those expressed in the decision on the last occasion, there being little that was new introduced by way or argument and evidence. … We must have in mind that if the property was to let on the open market, the potential tenants of it would not be provided with a record of the Landlord’s history of compliance with its covenant. Though condition might be observed, a Landlord’s compliance with its covenant is likely only to be visible through that condition, and an astute landlord puts a property in good condition before offering it to let. We therefore find that we cannot take into account this Landlord’s performance (or otherwise) of the covenant to repair when it comes to our assessment of what the market rent would be. … The assessment we must conduct is a two stage process. The first stage is to establish, in accordance with section 14 of the Act, what the rent for the property in good condition would be if it was let on the open market with a willing Landlord and willing Tenant. The second stage is to analyse what the condition of the property is, in terms of its departure from that ‘good’ standard, and what the consequence on the figurative willing Landlord and willing Tenant’s realise expectation/offer for rent would be. …
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.