Renting in Burnham-on-Crouch now
Only about one Burnham-on-Crouch household in seven rents privately, and the homes they rent are mostly houses, many of them detached. We clean them at the end of a tenancy for a fixed price by bedrooms, from £176 for a studio to £359 for a three-bed and £445 for a four-bed.
Last updated October 2026.
The town is small for a place with a station and four sailing clubs. The 2021 census counted 8,852 people in the parish and 3,966 households across its two wards. Almost three in four households owned their home, and 1,670 of them, more than four in ten, owned it outright. Private tenants numbered 548 households, and social tenants 495.
Rents here are lower than the regional average. The ONS put the average private rent in Maldon District at £1,139 a month in August 2026 (£1,033 for a two-bed, £1,245 for a three-bed), against £1,289 across the East of England. Even so, a five-week deposit on a three-bed is more than a thousand pounds, and cleaning is the line a check-out report picks on first.
Where the rented homes are
Burnham splits into a North and a South ward, and they rent very differently. In the South ward, which runs down to the River Crouch, 409 of 1,995 households rented privately in 2021, about one in five.
In the North ward it was 139 of 1,971, about one in fourteen. The South ward also holds most of the town’s flats (266 of 323) and most of its terraces (495 of 773). The North ward is detached-house country: 1,104 of its 1,972 homes stand on their own plot.
In practice that gives us two kinds of Burnham job. In the South ward a let is more likely to be a terraced house or a flat. In the North ward it is usually a detached or semi-detached family house, and a big one can take a team most of a day. Tell us which you have when you book; the bedroom count sets the price either way.
The town is also the main settlement on the Dengie peninsula, which has about 20,000 people, so we clean in Southminster, Althorne and the other villages for the same prices. Maldon, up the B1010, is the district’s main town and home of the council.
Licensing and deposit rules in Maldon District
National mandatory HMO licensing applies in Burnham as everywhere in England: a home shared by five or more people from two or more households needs a licence from Maldon District Council. A house let to one family, or a flat let to a couple, does not.
Your deposit must be protected in one of the three government schemes (TDS, DPS or mydeposits). At the end, the agent or landlord compares the home with the check-in inventory and can claim for cleaning that falls below it, allowing for fair wear and tear.
Since the Tenant Fees Act 2019, nobody can make a paid professional clean a condition of your tenancy; what they can hold you to is the standard written in that inventory. Read it before you book, and tell us if it says the oven or carpets were professionally cleaned when you moved in.
Nobody can make a paid professional clean a condition of your tenancy; what they can hold you to is the standard written in the inventory.
What the cleaners do in a Burnham house
Essex & Suffolk Water supplies the town. The company says water is harder where it comes from chalk, limestone or groundwater, and that it blends sources, so hardness can change through the year; its online report gives the figure for your postcode. Whatever the reading, we descale the taps, shower screen, shower head and toilet bowl on every clean, because those are the places a clerk photographs.
- Kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops, the hob and splashback, the extractor hood and filter, sink and taps, the fridge and freezer, the dishwasher filter and the washing machine drawer and seal.
- Bathrooms and en suites: bath, shower, basin and toilet including the base and seat hinges, tiles and grout, mirrors and the fan cover.
- All rooms: skirting boards, doors and frames, radiators, switches and sockets, window sills and inside glass, inside wardrobes, and floors vacuumed and washed.
- Garage, porch or utility room, if the inventory lists them: swept and wiped down.
The cleaners work to our 57-point checklist and are vetted with an in-person interview, insured and trained. Since 2014 we have cleaned across London, Liverpool and Manchester and the areas around them, more than 300 letting agents work with us, and tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits. Our rating on Google is 4.7.
Burnham-on-Crouch end of tenancy prices
| Home | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £176 |
| One-bed | £227 |
| Two-bed | £263 |
| Three-bed | £359 |
| Four-bed | £445 |
| Part jobs and unusual layouts | £30 per cleaner per hour |
A house with more than four bedrooms is quoted from the room count. If a job needs paid parking, we add what it costs us.
Add the oven if you need it; it is never in the fixed price. A single or single wide oven is £31, and a double or a 90cm range cooker £62.
Carpets cleaned with the end of tenancy clean cost £29 for each bedroom, £36 for a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 for a flight of stairs, £20 for a hall and £8 for a landing, so a detached house with carpeted stairs and landing is worth counting room by room. The oven cleaning and carpet cleaning pages have more on each.
If you are staying and only want a thorough clean, a deep clean is £26 per cleaner per hour with two cleaners for at least three hours (from £186). Regular cleaning is £23 an hour weekly or £24 fortnightly, three hours a visit.
Booking a clean on the Crouch
Booking takes three steps
- Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
- A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
- We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.
0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Use the calculator at the top of this page for a price, or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, seven days a week. Give us the postcode, bedrooms, check-out date and any oven or carpet extras. The home needs to be empty, with electricity and hot water on.
Burnham station is on the Crouch Valley line, a branch from Wickford to Southminster that was electrified in the 1980s, with direct trains to London Liverpool Street at peak times. The same line serves South Woodham Ferrers and meets the main line at Wickford; if your agent’s office is in either, tell us the hand-back time and we will finish the clean before it.
One date to plan for: Burnham Week, the regatta held every year in late August, which dates back to 1893. A check-out that week is still fine; just book early. And if the agent or clerk flags anything within 48 hours of the clean, we come back and redo it free. Other Essex towns we cover are on our Essex end of tenancy cleaning page.
Questions about moving out of a Burnham let
Do you cover Southminster and the Dengie villages?
Yes, at the same prices as Burnham itself. The bedroom count sets the price, wherever the house is on the peninsula.
My Burnham house has four bedrooms and a study. How is it priced?
A four-bed is £445. If the study is used as a fifth bedroom, we quote from the room count.
Does a three-bed let to a family in Burnham need a licence?
No. Mandatory licensing covers homes shared by five or more people from two or more households. A family let is outside it.
The inventory says the carpets were professionally cleaned. What should I add?
Add the rooms the inventory lists: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room and £35 a flight of stairs, booked on the same visit as the clean.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.