69 Montagu Mansions, London, W1U 6LE
LON/00BK/MNR/2021/0057 · Westminster · decided 15 Jul 2021
old rules| Rent before the notice | £6,350 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £6,500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £4,550 −28.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 22 Oct 2020 |
| 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
No rental evidence had been put forward by the landlord. … The evidence put forward on behalf of the tenant is substantiated by previous tribunal decisions and letting details of a number of flats of different sizes as shown in column 2 of the table. … The tribunal has weighed this evidence and also applied its knowledge and experience and places considerable weight on it. … Applying a similar methodology of reaching an average rent for the equivalent floor area the tribunal arrives at a headline figure of £7000 per quarter. … This figure has been adopted by successive tribunals and there is no evidence before the tribunal to suggest it is no longer valid. The tribunal therefore makes a deduction of 35%. … Under s14 (7) of the Housing Act 1988 the effective date of the decision would normally be the date shown on the application unless there is hardship to the tenant. … The tribunal received no evidence of hardship and therefore the effective date of the
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.