Flat 5, 52 Elsham Road, London, W14 8HD
LON/00AW/MNR/2025/0655 · Kensington and Chelsea · decided 29 Jul 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,250 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,300 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,490 +19.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 8 Jan 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 2 Dec 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, 1 bedroom |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
That page contained a number of figures, most of which are not relevant to the matter at hand, but also referred to one bed flats having an average rent of £2,647 per calendar month (pcm) and a median rent of £2,450 pcm in the W14 postcode area. We are grateful for the landlord’s providing us with that evidence, but we did not attach any weight to it. It is unclear how the information has been arrived at, it has not been qualified and in any case offers us nothing to meaningfully consider in relation to the subject property. All it might do was offer us an idea of general rental levels in the W14 area – but that is a very wide area, and we are in any case an expert Tribunal which is already aware of general levels of rental value in the area. … The tenant provided a table in her reply form of 6, 1 bed properties “within a quarter of a mile” (referenced only by the name of the street they were on) that were apparently on the market for asking rents ranging from £1,647 to £1,800 pcm. However, there was no other evidence provided regarding those comparables other than the brief comments regarding each of them provided by the tenant. Asking rents carry very little weight as evidence in any case, however in this case we considered this was particularly true as the level of detail we were provided was too low to enable us to meaningfully compare any of them with the subject. …
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.