Flat 1 Ground Floor Flat, 5 Empress Avenue, Ilford, IG1 3DE
LON/00BC/MNR/2025/0680 · Redbridge · decided 10 Jun 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £987.60 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,250 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £935 −5.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Feb 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 9 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, studio |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Having consideration of our own expert, general knowledge of rental values in the Ilford area, we consider that the open market rent for the property in good lettable condition with modern fittings and services would be £1,100 per month. … Next, the Tribunal needs to adjust that hypothetical rent of £1,100 per month to allow for the damaged kitchen fittings, mould to internal walls, basic decorations, basic electric panel heating system, no white goods supplied by landlord.. … The Tribunal has considered very carefully the information provided by the tenant. Using its own expertise, the Tribunal considers that a deduction of 15% should be applied in order to take account of the above matters. This provides a deduction of £165 per month from the hypothetical rent. This reduces the figure to £1,487.50 per month. … It should be noted that this figure cannot be a simple arithmetical calculation and is not based upon capital costs but is the Tribunal’s estimate of the amount by which the rent would need to be reduced to attract a tenant. … The Tribunal determines a rent of £935 per calendar month.
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.