Renting in Billericay in 2026
Billericay’s rented homes run from weatherboarded cottages inside the old conservation area to post-war semis and the new houses going up off Kennel Lane, and plenty of the people renting them commute to Liverpool Street. For any of these we do a fixed-price end of tenancy clean, £176 for a studio up to £445 for four bedrooms.
Last updated October 2026.
The town is bigger than people expect: the 2021 census counted 28,562 people in the parish and 34,075 in the built-up area, which takes in Queen’s Park, Sunnymede, Great Burstead and South Green. It comes under Basildon Borough Council for housing and planning, with its own town council at the Chantry Centre.
The railway explains a lot of the rental market. Billericay station opened on 1 January 1889 on the branch between Shenfield and Southend, and Greater Anglia now runs three trains an hour to London Liverpool Street off-peak. Passenger numbers have climbed from about half a million in 2020/21 to 2.35 million in 2024/25, so the commuters are back.
Rents are rising faster here than in London. The ONS put the Basildon borough average at £1,424 a month in August 2026, up 5.4% on a year earlier, with flats at £1,131, semi-detached houses at £1,494 and detached houses at £1,963. A deposit can be up to five weeks’ rent, so a tenant leaving an average semi has around £1,700 held in a scheme until the check-out report is settled.
Cottages, semis and the Kennel Lane houses
The Billericay Conservation Area was first designated in September 1969 around the High Street, the west side of Chapel Street and the end of Sun Street. In 1983 it was extended north to the railway cutting at Crown Road, west along Western Road, and south to take in all of Chapel Street, Sun Street and the west side of Laindon Road. Basildon Council’s appraisal counts around 40 listed buildings inside it.
The same appraisal describes what those buildings are like. The oldest are timber-framed, some jettied, with gables to the road. Norsey Road has terraces of brick and weatherboard cottages, many of them listed. Sun Street has early 19th-century terraces finished in pebbledash or cockle-shell harling.
Windows are mostly timber sashes with small panes, six over six or eight over eight. A rented cottage or flat in this part of town means many small panes to wipe, low ceilings, and old floorboards where dust settles in the joints.
Outside the centre most homes are 20th-century houses, bungalows and small blocks of flats, spread across Queen’s Park, Sunnymede, Great Burstead and South Green. The newest layer is The Hill Group’s scheme off Kennel Lane, about a mile from the High Street: 179 homes on a 20-acre site round a central park, a mix of one and two-bed flats and two to four-bed houses for sale, affordable rent and shared ownership, each with an air source heat pump. The first homes were due to go on sale in late 2025.
Basildon’s HMO rules and the Article 4 plans
Basildon Council licenses houses in multiple occupation under the national mandatory scheme: a licence is needed when five or more people from two or more households live there, whatever the number of storeys. The council’s HMO licence page has the details and fees.
Planning rules are tightening. In November 2025 the council’s Cabinet approved two Article 4 Directions on HMOs. One applies straight away in the St Martin’s and Nethermayne wards of Basildon town.
The other covers every ward in the borough, Billericay included, and will remove the right to turn a family house into a small HMO without planning permission 12 months to two years after it is made. The council set up an HMO taskforce in August 2025 to gather evidence for both.
For a tenant this changes very little on the day you leave. Licensing and planning are the landlord’s business, and your clean is judged against the check-in inventory whatever the house is classed as. If you are in a shared house, check whether the landlord expects one clean of the whole house or a share from each tenant.
The cleaning list for a Billericay home
Billericay is in Essex and Suffolk Water’s Billericay and Brentwood supply zone. The company’s latest report, covering 2025, gives an average hardness of 249 mg/l as calcium carbonate and describes the water in the area as hard. Scale builds on shower screens, taps and kettles within weeks, so descaling is on the list for every room with a tap.
- Kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops, tiles, hob and extractor, fridge and freezer, sink and taps descaled, and the floor under any appliance that pulls out.
- Bathroom: screen, tiles, taps and shower head descaled, grout, bath, basin and toilet including the rim, mirrors and the fan cover.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: skirting, door frames, radiators, switches and sockets, wardrobes inside, sills and the inside of every window, with sash runners and small panes done by hand.
- Floors vacuumed and mopped throughout, stairs included.
The checklist behind this has 57 points. Our cleaners are vetted in a face-to-face interview, insured and trained on it. We have done this work since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits with our help, and we are rated 4.7 on Google.
Rents are rising faster here than in London: up 5.4% in a year across Basildon borough.
End of tenancy prices
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £176 |
| One bedroom | £227 |
| Two bedrooms | £263 |
| Three bedrooms | £359 |
| Four bedrooms | £445 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| Part of a home, or one room in a shared house | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Ovens are extra: £31 single, £62 double, £31 for a single wide oven and £62 for a 90cm range cooker. Carpets cleaned on the same visit are £29 for each bedroom, £36 for a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 per flight of stairs, £20 for a hallway and £8 for a landing. You can also book them separately through our carpet cleaning and oven cleaning pages.
Booking around your notice date
From 1 May 2026 most tenancies in England became assured periodic tenancies. To end one you give two months’ notice in writing, on the day the rent is due or the day before, unless you and the landlord agree a shorter period. That means you know your last day well in advance, and the best slot for the clean is the day before the check-out or the morning of it.
Use the calculator at the top of the page for your price, or ring 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, seven days a week. If we have to pay for parking, the cost is added to your quote at what we pay.
When the agent or clerk raises something within 48 hours, we send a cleaner back to sort it at no charge. Our Brentwood page covers the other half of the same water zone, Wickford is the next stop down the line towards Southend, and the Essex page lists the rest of the county.
Billericay end of tenancy FAQs
I rent a cottage on Norsey Road. Do the small-paned sash windows cost extra?
No. The price is set by bedrooms, and the windows are cleaned on the inside, frames and runners included.
We are the first tenants in a new house off Kennel Lane. Is a new-build clean any different?
The list is the same. New houses have less wear, so the clerk notices dust from fitting-out, scale on new taps and marks on pale floors more easily.
How much for a three-bed semi in South Green with a double oven?
£359 for the clean and £62 for the double oven.
Does the Article 4 Direction affect my deposit?
No. It is a planning rule for landlords who want to create new HMOs. Your deposit depends on the check-out report.
Can you clean on a Saturday?
Yes. We work seven days a week, 8am to 7pm. Book as soon as your last day is fixed.