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Renting in Arkley now
Most rented homes in Arkley are family houses on the Green Belt edge of Barnet, between Barnet Gate, Rowley Green and the Barnet Road, and our end of tenancy clean for one is priced by bedrooms, from £156 for a studio to £425 for four.
Houses with five or more bedrooms are quoted from the room count when you ring. If the agent or inventory clerk flags anything within 48 hours, we go back and clean it again at no charge.
Last updated October 2026.
147 mabove sea level, one of London’s highest points£3,018average rent for a detached house in Barnet, August 2026 (ONS)32.7%of Barnet households renting privately at the 2021 census£156studio, fixed price
Arkley is a village on the high ground west of Chipping Barnet, 147 metres up, made of the old hamlets of Barnet Gate, Rowley Green and Arkley strung out towards Stirling Corner. It grew fast in the first half of the twentieth century: the parish had 483 people in 1901 and 7,536 by 1951.
The Barnet Society describes most homes in and around the village as individual detached properties, with Rockways off Barnet Road the one sizeable development, and the Green Belt has kept it that way.
A planning inspector refused four houses on the old Arkley Riding Stables site in Hedgerow Lane in December 2021 because they would reduce the openness of the Green Belt. In February 2026 Bugler Homes asked Barnet Council for pre-planning talks on 230 to 300 homes on a former pig farm off Rowley Lane, which would be Arkley’s first housing estate; no application has been decided.
Renting is common across Barnet and getting more so. At the 2021 census 32.7% of the borough’s households rented privately, up from 25.6% in 2011 and above the London figure of 30.0%.
The ONS put Barnet’s average private rent at £1,949 a month in August 2026, and the borough averages by type come closer to an Arkley let: £2,572 for a semi and £3,018 for a detached house, against £1,738 for a flat. At those rents, deposits are large, and the inventory on a big house runs to many pages.
A job our cleaners finished in Barnet.
Barnet Hospital, on Wellhouse Lane just east of the village, is an acute hospital with 459 beds run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Licensing in Barnet’s north-west corner
A family house let to one household in Arkley needs no council licence. Barnet has no selective licensing scheme in force. The council consulted from 15 June to 15 September 2026 on a scheme for ten wards: Burnt Oak, Childs Hill, Colindale North, Colindale South, Cricklewood, Finchley Church End, Friern Barnet, Golders Green, Hendon and West Hendon. None of them takes in Arkley.
From one of our jobs in Barnet.
Shared houses are different. Barnet’s additional HMO licensing has applied across the whole borough since 27 October 2022 and runs for five years, and the national mandatory licence covers houses with five or more sharers. Since 29 May 2016 an Article 4 direction has meant planning permission is needed anywhere in Barnet to turn a family house into a small shared house of three to six people. The council’s property licensing pages have the current position.
For the clean, licensing changes little out here. The inventory is what counts, so get a copy of the check-in report before moving day and walk the house with it.
What the clean covers in a detached house
The 57-point checklist is the same for a studio and a five-bedroom house. What changes in Arkley is how many times the cleaners repeat it, and how much of the house sits outside the main rooms.
Kitchen and utility: every cupboard inside and out, worktops and tiles, hob, extractor hood and filter, sink and taps descaled, fridge and freezer (switched off and defrosted the night before), dishwasher filter and seals, washing machine drawer and door seal, and the floor behind what pulls out. A separate utility room or boot room is cleaned the same way.
Bathrooms and en suites: scale off taps, shower heads, screens and tiles, grout scrubbed, toilets inside and out including the base, baths, basins, mirrors and extractor covers. Each one is counted, so tell us how many there are.
Reception rooms and bedrooms: skirting, doors and frames, switches and sockets, radiators, sills and window glass from the inside, fireplace surrounds and hearths, inside fitted wardrobes, then floors vacuumed and washed.
Stairs and landings: treads, banisters and spindles, and the landing skirting.
Hard water adds time in every bathroom. Barnet came out as the London borough with the hardest water in a 2024 comparison reported by the Barnet Post, and scale on glass and chrome is the first thing a clerk sees in a bathroom. Descaling is part of every clean, at no extra cost.
Some jobs are outside a clean. The cleaners do not sweep a chimney, clear outbuildings or remove rubbish, and window glass is cleaned from the inside; for the outside, see our window cleaning service. A scorch on a worktop or a cracked tile is damage, and the clerk records it as damage however clean the room is.
The 57-point checklist is the same for a studio and a five-bedroom house.
For a house over four bedrooms we price it from the room list (bedrooms, bathrooms, reception rooms, utility, conservatory) and give you the total before you book. Add-ons cost less with the end of tenancy clean than booked alone:
Oven
£31 single or single wide, £62 double or 90cm range cooker. The oven is never in the base price.
Carpets
£29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway, £8 a landing.
Read your tenancy agreement for a carpet clause before adding carpets. For carpets or an oven without the full clean, see our carpet cleaning and oven cleaning pages. If the drive or street means paid parking for the van, we add what it costs us and it is shown on the quote.
Booking, gates and getting here
Booking takes three steps
Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
There is no station in Arkley. The nearest is High Barnet on the Northern line, and buses including the 107 run along the Barnet Road. The cleaners drive in with the kit, so what we need to know is the gate code, where the van can stop, and whether the drive is long enough to make a difference to carrying machines in.
When you book, give us the postcode, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, the check-out date, any oven or carpets to add, and access details. The house must be empty, with electricity and hot water on.
A big house needs a full team, so book a week ahead if you can, and earlier for the last days of a month. Get your price from the calculator at the top of the page, or call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, every day.
East of the village the houses change to terraces and flats around High Barnet station and the high street in Chipping Barnet, while Totteridge to the south-east is the nearest match for Arkley’s large detached houses. Every area we cover in the borough is on our end of tenancy cleaning Barnet page.
Arkley end of tenancy FAQs
My Arkley house has six bedrooms and three bathrooms. How is that priced?
From the room count. Send us the room list and we give you a total before you book, with any oven or carpet add-ons on top at the add-on rates.
Does my landlord need a selective licence for a house in Arkley?
No. Barnet has no selective licensing in force, and the ten wards in the 2026 consultation do not include Arkley. A shared house is different: it falls under the borough-wide additional HMO licensing or, with five or more sharers, the mandatory licence.
Do you clean the range cooker?
Yes, as an add-on: £62 for a 90cm range cooker booked with the end of tenancy clean. It is not part of the fixed price for the house.
The house has a long drive and electric gates. What do you need from me?
The gate code or a way in, where the van can park, and a contact for the day. You do not need to be there while the cleaners work.
Can my landlord make me use a professional cleaner?
No. Under the Tenant Fees Act 2019 a landlord cannot require a professional clean. You must hand the house back as clean as the check-in report shows, allowing for fair wear and tear, or the cost can be taken from the deposit.
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Month-end fills up fast. Book 7 to 10 days before your inspection.
