Flat 27 Sheengate Mansions, 259 Upper Richmond Road West, East Sheen, London, SW14 8QS
LON/00BD/MNR/2025/0698 · Richmond upon Thames · decided 7 Oct 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,100 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,200 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,035 −5.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Apr 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 6 Feb 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 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
In the Tribunal decision LON/00BD/MNR/2022/0105 dated the 17 February 2025 paragraph 39 states “ In these circumstances, we concluded that the best we could do was to decline any increase in the rent” This Tribunal departs from this methodology and clearly is of the opinion the rental value can be calculated based upon the usual method of valuation adopted by this Tribunal. … Therefore, having consideration of the evidence provided by the parties, the previous decision and our own expert general knowledge of rental values in the East Sheen area, we consider that the open market rent for the property in good lettable condition with modern fittings and services would be £2,300 per month. … The Tribunal considered the submissions from the tenant regarding the condition of the property and based upon the inspection we consider a deduction of £1,265 per month (55%) should be applied to take into account the archaic condition of the property, previous damp penetration, significant plaster repairs and cracking, single glazed windows, no central heating, no white goods, carpets or curtains provided by the landlord. This reduces the rental figure to £1,035 per month. It should be noted that this figure cannot be a simple arithmetical calculation and is not based on capital costs but is the Tribunal’s estimate of the amount by which the rent would need to be reduced to attract a tenant.
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.