Flat 4, Highwood House, 148 Cavendish Street, London W1W 6YH
LON/00BK/MNR/2024/0646 · Westminster · decided 13 Feb 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £820.30 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £3,000 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £2,450 +198.7% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 13 Feb 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 29 Jul 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, 3 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 has carefully considered the written submissions provided by both parties, the oral submissions and evidence given by the Tenant at the hearing, and their own observations from the inspection. … The Tribunal is required to determine the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to let in the open market by a willing landlord under an assured tenancy having regards to the specific conditions in s14 of the 1988 Act. Although the Tribunal appreciates the difficulty of the situation, the personal circumstances of the Tenant are not relevant to determining the market rent. … The starting point is, therefore, what rent might reasonably be expected to be achieved in the open market for the property in a modern tenantable state. If required, this is then adjusted to reflect the specifics of the subject property, including disrepair, disregards and improvements. … Although two- rather than three-bedroomed, the flats are larger and appear to have the benefit of a second shower room. The Tribunal considers that Goodge Street, along with the one-bedroom flats let in Highwood House and Cleveland Street, help to define a range of values that it might be reasonable to expect the subject flat to fall within; an upper limit of £3,900 to £4,500 and a lower limit of £2,300 and £2,650. …
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.