Brickfield Properties Limited v Paul Haines & Anor
Decision date: 28 October 2026
Neutral citation: [2026] UKUT 421 (LC)
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Short overview
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This appeal concerned the First-tier Tribunal's valuation method for the short lease value used to calculate the premium for an extended lease of Flat 33, Oslo Court. The UT held the FTT had unfairly adopted a blended relativity method (mixing standard published graphs and an isolated comparable) that neither party had advanced or been invited to comment on, set aside the FTT's short lease valuation of £433,510 and substituted £400,000. By agreement the premium payable is £104,570.
Ratio decidendi
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A tribunal should not adopt a valuation methodology or a re‑averaging/blended relativity approach that has not been advanced by the parties or put to the parties and their experts for comment; where market evidence on short‑lease value is available and accepted by the parties, the tribunal may properly prefer that figure rather than reworking published relativity graphs without expert support.
Obiter dicta
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The UT observed that blended approaches combining market evidence and standard relativity graphs are not inherently impermissible, but they must be supported by evidence or expressly put to the parties; and that reliance on prior decisions or comparables from the same block requires transparency about how those conclusions are derived so as not to distort published graphs.