Balham end of tenancy prices
Balham’s rented flats range from the 677 art deco apartments of Du Cane Court on Balham High Road to Victorian and Edwardian houses split into two or three flats, and a fixed-price end of tenancy clean for any of them costs £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed and £243 for a two-bed. Family houses go up to £425 for four bedrooms. The oven and carpets are extras, booked only if your check-in inventory lists them.
Last updated October 2026.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bed flat | £207 |
| Two-bed flat or maisonette | £243 |
| Three-bed flat or house | £339 |
| Four-bed house | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | Quoted from the room count |
| Part jobs and unusual layouts | £30 per cleaner per hour |
To get a quote for your address, enter the postcode and number of bedrooms in the calculator at the top of the page. The phone line, 0333 555 2076, is open 8am to 7pm every day.
Balham’s homes, from Du Cane Court to Hyde Farm
Most of Balham is in Wandsworth, with a strip to the east in Lambeth, and it sits between four commons: Clapham to the north, Wandsworth to the west, Tooting Bec to the east and Tooting Graveney to the south. Balham High Road follows the line of Stane Street, the Roman road to Chichester, and most of the rented flats are within a few minutes of it.
Du Cane Court is the building people ask about first. It opened in 1937 and was thought to be the largest privately owned block of flats in Europe at the time. Flats there range from studios up. Whatever the size, empty and wipe every built-in cupboard, because the clerk opens each one.
Near Bedford Hill is the Heaver estate. The Victorian builder Alfred Heaver put it up in the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House, and it is mainly substantial houses. Where one has been split into flats, the upper flat usually has its own staircase, tall sash windows and deep skirting, so it takes longer than a flat of the same size in a block.
Over the Lambeth boundary, east of Cavendish Road, is Hyde Farm. Emmanuel College, Cambridge owned the land, and the estate was built between 1896 and 1916. Most of its low-rise houses were divided into two as cottage flats, one flat on each floor with its own front door, which suited the Edwardian market.
Lambeth made part of the estate, between Haverhill Road and Radbourne Road, a conservation area in 1996. Each cottage flat usually has its own way in, so the clean covers your front door and hall as well as the rooms.
Rents explain why the deposit matters. The ONS put the average private rent in Wandsworth at £2,632 a month in August 2026; a two-bed averaged £2,463 and a terraced house £3,138, against £2,332 across London. Five weeks’ rent on an average Wandsworth two-bed is close to £2,850.
Du Cane Court was thought to be the largest privately owned block of flats in Europe when it opened in 1937.
Licensing in South Balham ward since July 2025
On 1 July 2025 Wandsworth Council started a selective licensing scheme in four wards, one of which is South Balham; the others are Furzedown, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway. In those wards, a landlord letting a home privately needs a licence from the council.
From the same date, an additional licence applies anywhere in the borough to homes shared by three or more people from different households. A landlord who lets without a licence can face prosecution or a penalty of up to £30,000, and tenants can claim back up to 12 months’ rent.
The north of Balham falls in other wards, and Hyde Farm comes under Lambeth instead, so the rules depend on the exact address. Wandsworth’s property licence check will tell you. Either way, licensing is the landlord’s job. The standard you are judged on when you leave is still the check-in inventory, allowing for fair wear and tear.
The 57-point clean in a hard-water area
Balham’s water comes from Thames Water, which says all the water in its region is hard. The company takes 65% of its water from rivers and 35% from underground, and it passes through chalk and limestone on the way.
The result shows in a flat that has been lived in for a year or two: white crust round the taps, a cloudy shower screen, scale on the tiles and inside the kettle. A clerk treats all of it as dirt. Descaling is part of the fixed price on every Balham clean.
- Kitchen: every cupboard and drawer inside and out, worktops, splashback, hob, extractor hood and filter, the sink and taps descaled, fridge and freezer, the washing machine drawer and seal, and behind anything that pulls out.
- Bathroom: limescale off the screen, taps, shower head and tiles, the grout scrubbed, toilet, bath, basin, mirror and the fan cover.
- Every room: skirting, picture rails, doors and frames, radiators, switches and sockets, sills and the inside of the windows, fitted wardrobes, floors vacuumed and washed.
Each cleaner has been interviewed in person, is insured and is trained on this checklist. We started in 2014 and work in London, Liverpool, Manchester and the areas around them. More than 300 letting agents use us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits after our cleans, and our Google rating is 4.7.
Add-on prices for ovens and carpets
Ovens are always extra. With the end of tenancy clean, a single or single wide oven is £31, and a double or a 90cm range cooker £62. For an oven on its own, see oven cleaning in Balham.
Carpets booked with the clean cost £29 per bedroom, £36 for a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 for a flight of stairs, £20 for a hallway and £8 for a landing. In a converted house the stairs from the street door may belong to the upper flat, so count them if they are yours. Carpets without a clean are on our carpet cleaning Balham page.
If you are staying, a deep clean is £26 per cleaner per hour (a team of two for at least three hours, from £186), and regular visits are on the domestic cleaning in Balham page.
Parking in zone H3 when you book
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Wandsworth’s Clapham South parking zone includes sub-zone H3, which covers Balham. Controls run from 9.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday on some streets and Monday to Friday on others, and a visitor can stay four hours at most.
On Bedford Hill some bays are pay and display only. A three-bed clean can run past four hours, so keep a visitor permit for the afternoon if you have one. Where we pay to park, the cost goes on your quote as it is.
Balham station has the Northern line, ten trains an hour towards Bank and Edgware off-peak, and Southern trains to Victoria, eight an hour. Clapham is a few minutes north on the Northern line and Tooting is two stops south, and we clean in both.
When you book, send the postcode, the floor, the bedrooms, the date the keys go back and any oven or carpets. The flat should be empty, with the electricity and hot water still on, and the freezer defrosted the night before. If the agent or clerk raises anything we missed within 48 hours, the cleaners return and redo it free. The rest of the borough is on our end of tenancy cleaning Wandsworth page.
Questions about moving out of a Balham flat
I am leaving a studio in Du Cane Court. What does it cost?
£156 for the studio. Add £31 if the inventory records a clean single oven.
My flat is in South Balham ward. Does selective licensing change my check-out?
No. The licence is your landlord’s. The clerk still compares the flat with the check-in inventory.
Can you park outside on Bedford Hill?
Bays on Bedford Hill are pay and display. If a visitor permit is available we use it; if we have to pay, the charge goes on the quote at cost.
I rent a cottage flat on the Hyde Farm estate. Is that a flat or a house price?
We price it by bedrooms, like any flat, so a two-bed cottage flat is £243.
Can the landlord insist I pay for a professional clean?
Not as a condition of the tenancy; the Tenant Fees Act 2019 bans that. You do need to hand the flat back as clean as it was at check-in, allowing for fair wear and tear.