[2025] UKUT 00324 (LC)

Case No: LC-2025-117

APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL PROPERTY CHAMBER

FTT Ref: LON/00BK/OLR/2024/0335

30 September 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT – FLAT – premium for extended lease – freehold vacant possession value – multiple adjustments to transactional evidence – averaging value of comparables – relativity – Schedule 13, Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 – appeal dismissed

BETWEEN:

DERITEND INVESTMENTS (BIRKDALE) LIMITED

Appellant

-and-

FUNG TAI ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED

Respondent

Flat 2E, Hyde Park Mansions

Chapel Street,

London NW1 5BL

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President and Mrs Diane Martin MRICS FAAV

Determination on written representations

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Daejan Investments Ltd v Collins [2024] UKUT 26 (LC)

Mallory v Orchidbase Ltd [2016] UKUT 468 (LC)

Trustees of Barry and Peggy High Foundation v Claudio Zucconi & Anor [2019] UKUT 242 (LC)