Flat 3, 80 Upper Tulse Hill, London, SW2 2RP
LON/00AY/MNR/2024/0281 · Lambeth · decided 1 Nov 2024
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £208 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,295.67 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £962 +362.5% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Nov 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 19 Apr 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; 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
Firstly, the Tribunal can place little weight on the Local Housing Allowance taken from the Valuation Office website. This is data led and has little bearing on actual open market transactions for rental values in the area. … Next, taking the evidence of the lettings within the property, the Tribunal is of the opinion this is flawed for several reasons. Firstly, the evidence refers to two bedroom and studio flats. Whereby the subject property is a one-bedroom flat. The method of pound per square foot analysis is not an accepted valuation methodology for rental valuation and this results in anomalies in the final figure. Lastly, flat 2 is currently vacant and for sale. Upon looking at the sales agents' details the floor plan confirms this property has a floor area of 588f2. This is therefore 61% larger than the subject property. A fact, that was not related to the Tribunal. It is for these reasons the Tribunal can place limited weight on this evidence. … Upon Reading through the details of each, it is apparent each of the flats has a modern specification with central heating and double glazed windows. The Tribunal preferred this evidence as the best available comparables. … Having consideration of our own expert knowledge of rental values in the Tulse Hill area, together with the parties’ submissions. …
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.