2 Wakefield Gardens, Ilford, London, IG1 3SJ
LON/00BC/MNR/2025/0624 · Redbridge · decided 28 Apr 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £2,175 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,600 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £2,375 +9.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Jan 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 5 Nov 2024 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 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 evidence of value provided by the parties comprised brief details of asking rents from property search websites. The landlord provided very limited details (comprising a summary of the listing on the search websites rather than even the particulars themselves) for 7 asking rents for 3 bed properties in the Ilford area. Those asking rents ranged from £2,100 to £2,800 per calendar month (pcm) – and some were from as far away as Thornton Road – on the opposite side of Ilford and around 2 miles away from the subject property. The tenant provided similarly limited details of a further 4 asking rents. Those asking rents had a tighter range, from £2,100pcm to £2,250pcm, but again included a comparable from Thornton Road – and in fact other ones from what would be considered to be NewBury Park rather than Ilford proper. … Asking rents carry very little evidential weight in any case. In the specific case, we were presented with asking rents with a large range in values and from a wide area. In addition, we were provided with minimal information regarding those asking rents, which made proper examination of any of them impossible on what was offered to us in evidence. …
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.