Flat 4 Dibdin House, Maida Vale, London, W9 1QE
LON/00BK/MNR/2022/0176 · Westminster · decided 1 Feb 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,310.29 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,398.87 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,395 +6.5% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Nov 2022 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 14 Sep 2022 |
| 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 Tribunal is required to determine the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under an assured tenancy. The personal circumstances of the Tenant are not relevant to this issue. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Maida Vale, the Tribunal decided that the market rent for the subject property if let today in a condition that was usual for such an open market letting would be £2,150 per calendar month. … We were not provided with any details of the tenancy, which may come under the provisions of the Rent Act 1977. That rental does not bear any comparison to the open market rents in the locality. … However, the rent of £2,150 per month is on the basis of a modern open market letting with modern bathroom and kitchen fittings; where the Landlord supplies white goods, carpets and curtains and there are no wants of repair. In this case the Tenant has provided the carpets, curtains and white goods. It was also noted that the kitchen and bathroom were of a basic condition and there were a number of items of disrepair. …
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.