Flat 2 Mills House, Thessaly Road, London, SW8 4HD
LON/00BJ/MNR/2024/0308 · Wandsworth · decided 16 Dec 2024
old rulesbills included| Rent before the notice | £650 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £895 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £807.50 +24.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Dec 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 17 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 |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
The tenant had referred to a flat next door, which was rented for £850 per month – but that flat is let as social housing. This is far removed from an open market transaction, and is not useful evidence of value. … For her part, the landlord had referred to various asking rents for rooms obtained from the internet. We had regard to those asking rents, but asking rents in general carry very little evidential weight, and in this case the information provided concerning them was too limited for any meaningful comparison with the subject. … The landlord did, however, refer to the letting of a room in the subject flat on 8 July 2024 at £950 per month – close to the valuation date (the proposed rental increase date in the notice). That room even has the other access to the rear ‘balcony’ area that the subject room does. This is very good evidence of value, and being in the same flat as the subject already reflects the circumstances of the shared common parts, regarding which there had been much disagreement between the parties and the inclusion of the bills in the rent. That being said, it is for a (quite noticeably) larger room which is in a better decorative condition. … We considered that, compared with the other room in the flat, the subject property might be expected to let for around 10% less, or £855 per 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.