Flat 138 Dibdin House, Maida Vale, London, W9 1QG
LON/00BK/MNR/2024/0642 · Westminster · decided 8 Jan 2024
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £1,531.72 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,690.56 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,541 +0.6% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Nov 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 29 Aug 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; 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
Following consideration of the written and photographic submissions given by both parties, the evidence given at the hearing and using its own knowledge and experience of the rental market in Maida Vale, the Tribunal finds that the market rental value of the property, if it was in good condition, would be £2.300.00 per month. … Taking into account the condition of the property when it was originally let and the provisions of a tenancy agreement, it is clear that the tenant inherited a propery requiring extensive modernisation and was taking on some decoration and repairing liability and white good and carpet provision which would not normally be required in the open market. In addition, the property now requires considerable upgrading beyond the tenants repairing liability and it would appear to suffer from some issues of damp and mould growth. The Tribunal, therefore, considers it necessary to adjust that market rent value to reflect the following: i) That the tenant has provided central heating within the property. ii) That the upgrade to the kitchen has been paid for and undertaken by the tenant. iii) That the bathroom in inadequate by modern standards. iv) That there is evidence of damp and mould growth within the property. v) That the tenant has a liability for internal decoration. vi) That the tenant has a liability to provide their own white goods. …
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.