Apartment 30 Cambridge Court, 2 Sussex Gardens, London, W2 1EU
LON/00BK/MNR/2023/0277 · Westminster · decided 3 Nov 2023
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £1,100 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,350 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,750 +59.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | The decision gives two dates: 21 May 2023 and 10 Oct 2023. See the original. |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 11 Jun 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, studio |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
From the tribunal's valuation
In the first instance the Tribunal determined what rent the Landlord could reasonably be expected to obtain for the property in the open market if it were let today in the condition that is considered usual for such an open market letting. … The tenant had made reference to Flat 17 below, which had been let for £1,300 per calendar month (PCM) recently. This flat was said to be identical in layout, but refurbished whereas the property is not. … The landlord, for their part, provided 2 comparables from within the building. A 349 sqft 1 bed flat let on 15 May 2023 for an annual rent of £28,678 per annum (£2,389.58PCM) and a 262 sqft studio flat let on 3 May 2023 for £22,160 per annum (£1,846.67PCM). The subject property was said to be 297 sqft. The landlord provided brief excerpts from tenancy agreements to evidence this, however they were heavily redacted, to the extent even that the flat number had been redacted. The Tribunal also noted that the three signatures provided on each tenancy agreement appeared to be the same across both tenancy agreements, and that the second and third signatures on each tenancy agreement also appeared to be the same. The landlord was unable to clarify why this might have been, or whether the properties were let to the same person. …
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.