Flat 408, Anchor House, Smugglers Way, London, SW18 1EN
LON/00BJ/MNR/2025/0647 · Wandsworth · decided 22 Jul 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £2,250 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,650 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £2,385 +6.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Jan 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 30 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 | flat, 2 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 tenant referred to the asking rents of 3 properties - ranging from £2,125 to £2,200 per calendar month (pcm) - taken from what would appear to be Rightmove adverts. Asking rents carry very little weight as evidence in any case, and we were provided with little detail concerning them. One of the asking rents was from Smugglers Way itself, however even from what little detail was provided we considered it was not a good comparable as the ‘living room’ space appeared significantly more cramped than the subject’s and was oddly shaped. … Instead, they were brief letters from local letting agents concerning the potential marketing of the property. This sort of evidence again holds very little weight. The landlord also averred that Zoopla had valued the property at £2,700pcm. The landlord could not evidence this, but we would have placed no weight upon it in any event. … The landlord also provided 2 asking rents from the subject development, advertised at £2,700 and £3,000pcm respectively. However, the details concerning those asking rents were extremely limited; and in any case, as we have observed above, asking rents carry very little weight in any case. … The landlord also referred to ONS data to support the rental increase – which they submitted should be taken as “authoritative” given it was Government data. …
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.