Renting in Coulsdon in 2026
Coulsdon sits at the bottom of Croydon, where the borough runs into the Surrey downs, and most of its rented homes are suburban houses and the flats of Cane Hill on the slope above the town. We clean them at the end of a tenancy for a fixed price by bedrooms, from £156 for a studio to £339 for a three-bed semi, with your exact figure in the calculator at the top of the page.
Last updated October 2026.
Rents in Croydon are low by London standards. The ONS put the borough’s average private rent at £1,582 a month in August 2026, up 3.2% on a year earlier, with one-beds at £1,265, two-beds at £1,573 and three-beds at £1,858. Flats and maisonettes averaged £1,437. The London average in the same month was £2,332, so a house with a garden here costs less to rent than a flat in much of inner London.
The 2021 census counted two wards here. Coulsdon Town had 15,419 people in 5,724 homes, and Old Coulsdon had 10,109 people in 3,951 homes. Coulsdon Town takes in the town centre and the streets around it; Old Coulsdon is the ward on the higher ground to the south-east.
Croydon’s new licensing schemes
Croydon Council started two new landlord licensing schemes on 25 September 2026, after pushing the start back from 1 September. Selective licensing, which covers homes let to a single household, applies in 14 of the borough’s 28 wards, from Addiscombe and Broad Green to Waddon and Woodside. Neither Coulsdon Town nor Old Coulsdon is on that list, so an ordinary family let in Coulsdon does not need a selective licence.
The second scheme is borough-wide and does reach Coulsdon. Additional HMO licensing now applies to any privately rented home occupied by three or four people from two or more households, so a three-bed semi let to three friends needs a licence from the council. Bigger shared houses were already covered by the national mandatory licence. Details, fees and the ward map are on the council’s additional HMO licensing page.
For a tenant moving out, licensing is the landlord’s business. It does not change the test at check-out, which is the same everywhere: is the home as clean as the check-in inventory says it was, allowing for fair wear and tear? Chipstead, to the west, is over the border in Surrey and outside Croydon’s schemes altogether.
Cane Hill, Smitham and the older streets
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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Cane Hill is the big change in Coulsdon’s housing. The old psychiatric hospital on the hill west of Brighton Road closed in stages, and Barratt and David Wilson Homes built 677 homes on the 210-acre site after planning was settled in 2016, finishing in November 2021. The mix is five apartment blocks of one- and two-bed flats, then detached, semi-detached and terraced houses of two to five bedrooms.
A Cane Hill home is new enough that the check-out is about finishes and appliances. Integrated ovens and extractor hoods, gloss kitchen doors that show fingerprints, glass shower screens, and the window tracks of large double-glazed units. A five-bedroom house there is quoted from the room count.
Down in the valley the stock is older. Most of the housing in Smitham, the old name for the low ground around Coulsdon Town station, and in Old Coulsdon went up between 1890 and 1970, much of it as the estates of the old farms were sold off.
That is why so much of Coulsdon is Edwardian and interwar semis; many of them have bay windows, and in plenty the dining room has been knocked through into the lounge. North of the town the Clockhouse Estate covers a hill plateau, and the Coulsdon Woods estate, built by Wates from 1967, runs down the hillside between Byron Avenue and the railway.
What the clean covers in CR5 homes
Coulsdon’s water comes from SES Water, which also supplies Caterham and much of east Surrey. SES says much of its water is drawn from boreholes in chalk and limestone, so it is naturally hard; the company softens it a little at the treatment works, and the hardness at the tap depends on where you live. In practice tenants here still find scale on taps, shower screens and inside kettles, and a clerk marks it. Descaling is in the price.
- Kitchen: inside and outside every cupboard and drawer, worktops, tiles, hob, extractor and filter, the sink and taps, fridge and freezer, and the floor under any appliance that slides out.
- Bathrooms and cloakrooms: scale off the screen, shower head, taps and tiles, grout scrubbed, toilet, bath, basin, mirror and extractor cover.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: skirting boards, doors and frames, switches and sockets, radiators, inside wardrobes, sills, and the glass and frames of windows from the inside.
- Floors: hard floors washed, carpets vacuumed, and the stairs and landing of a house done top to bottom.
Every item comes from our 57-point checklist. Our cleaners are interviewed in person before they start, then insured and trained on that checklist. We have been in business since 2014 across London, Liverpool and Manchester; over 300 letting agents use us, tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits, and our Google rating is 4.7.
Coulsdon prices and add-ons
| Home | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bed flat, such as a Cane Hill apartment | £207 |
| Two-bed flat or small house | £243 |
| Three-bed semi in Smitham or Old Coulsdon | £339 |
| Four-bed house | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| Part job or unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The oven is an add-on. Booked with the clean it costs £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. For ovens on their own, see our oven cleaning page.
Carpets cost less when they go with the end of tenancy clean: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 per flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Standalone prices are on our carpet cleaning page.
If parking near the house costs us money, the amount we pay is added and shown on the quote.
Getting there and booking a date
Coulsdon has two stations. Coulsdon South, opened in 1889, is on the Brighton Main Line in fare zone 6. Coulsdon Town, on the Tattenham Corner branch, was called Smitham until May 2011. Since December 2006 the A23 has bypassed the high street along the relief road, Farthing Way, which TfL said would take 80 per cent of the traffic out of the town centre.
To book, have the postcode, the bedroom count, the date the keys go back, and any oven or carpets ready, then use the calculator or ring 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, any day. The home should be empty, with power and hot water still on.
End-of-month dates fill first, so a week’s notice helps. When an agent or clerk picks something up within 48 hours of the clean, we send a cleaner back at no cost. We also cover Purley and the rest of the borough; the full list is on our Croydon end of tenancy cleaning page.
Coulsdon end of tenancy FAQs
I am leaving a two-bed apartment at Cane Hill. What will it cost?
£243, fixed. If the kitchen has a built-in double oven you want cleaned, add £62.
Does my Coulsdon landlord need one of Croydon’s new licences?
Only if the home is shared. Coulsdon’s wards are outside the selective scheme, but the additional HMO licence applies borough-wide from 25 September 2026 to homes let to three or four people from two or more households.
Our 1930s semi has a through lounge and carpeted stairs. What do the carpets add?
Booked with the clean, a through lounge is £47 and each flight of stairs £35, with bedrooms at £29 each.
Do I need to be at the house while you clean?
No. You can leave the keys with the agent or a neighbour and come back for the check-out. Tell us the arrangement when you book.
Do you clean in Old Coulsdon and on the Clockhouse Estate too?
Yes, at the same fixed prices as the rest of Coulsdon.