69 Porchester Terrace London W2 3TT
LON/00BK/MNR/2024/0338 · Westminster · decided 29 Jan 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £2,000 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £5,850 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £5,200 +160.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 24 Jun 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 20 Mar 2024 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 5 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 initially needs to determine 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. In doing this, the Tribunal will consider the rental value of the property and will not consider the personal circumstances of the Tenant, as that is not a factor envisaged by the Act. … The Landlord provided comparable evidence which was of particular use given that two of the four evidence properties provided were located on Porchester Terrace. Although the comparables were for four-bedroom properties and the subject property is a five-bedroom property the comparables had other benefits (e.g., gated community) that would offset the benefit of not having the fifth bedroom. … The Tribunal have therefore applied a market rent of £6,500 per calendar month for the subject property. … However, there are elements in the subject property that need to be taken in to account and reflected via adjustments to the market rent. This includes dated electrics and the property being only partly double-glazed.
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.