Short answer for Hackney Central tenants
Around Mare Street most lets are flats: rooms over shops, floors of split Victorian houses, and council-built blocks from the 1930s onwards. For end of tenancy cleaning in Hackney Central we charge a fixed price by size, from £156 for a studio up to £425 for a four-bed house, with the oven and carpets added only if your inventory needs them.
Last updated October 2026.
The quickest way to a figure is the price calculator at the top of this page: enter the postcode and the number of bedrooms. If you would rather talk it through, ring 0333 555 2076, any day from 8am to 7pm.
Home types around Mare Street compared
Private renting has grown in Hackney. The 2021 census found 32.2% of the borough’s households renting privately, up from 29.0% in 2011, while 40.5% rented from the council or a housing association.
Rents are among London’s highest: the ONS average for Hackney was £2,658 a month in August 2026, and £2,001 for a one-bed, against £2,332 for London as a whole. The table matches the homes we are booked for most often around Hackney Central with the price and the part of each that eats the time.
| Home | Price | What takes the longest |
|---|---|---|
| Studio above a shop on Mare Street or the Narroway | £156 | Kitchen grease, the street door and stairs, sash windows facing the traffic |
| One-bed floor of a house off Graham Road | £207 | Tall windows, shutters, cornices and deep skirting |
| Two-bed in a 1930s walk-up block on the Pembury Estate | £243 | Small kitchen and bathroom scrubbed hard, balcony door and frames |
| Two-bed new-build flat, such as Pembury Circus | £243 | Glass shower screens, gloss cupboard fronts, extractor filters |
| Three-bed Victorian house | £339 | Two or three floors of stairs, the back addition kitchen, garden door |
| Four-bed house | £425 | Extra bathrooms and loft rooms |
| Your room in a shared house, or a partial clean | £30 per cleaner per hour | Your own room plus a fair share of the kitchen and bathroom |
Two conservation areas meet near the station. The Mare Street conservation area, protected since 2000, follows one of the oldest routes through Hackney and is mostly Edwardian, with homes above many of its shops.
West of it, the Graham Road and Mapledene conservation area (1997) is the largest in the borough, mostly houses from the early and middle 1800s. Where one of these has been split into flats, the shared hall is usually on nobody’s inventory, while your own stairs, landing and front door are on yours.
The Pembury Estate, at the corner of Dalston Lane and Amhurst Road on the Hackney Downs side, has two halves. Old Pembury is 24 walk-up blocks built by the London County Council in the 1930s; Peabody has run the estate since 2000, and Pembury Circus added 268 new homes.
North of the church, Clapton Square was laid out in 1816 and its Georgian houses have mostly been divided into flats; that part of the area is on our Lower Clapton page.
Homes with five or more bedrooms are quoted from the room count. If the street needs paid parking for the van, we add it at cost, and it is shown on the quote.
Selective licensing in Hackney Central from May 2026
Hackney Council’s new licensing schemes came into force on 1 May 2026 and run to 30 April 2031. Selective licensing now covers 17 of the borough’s 21 wards, Hackney Central included, so almost every private let here needs a licence: a flat rented to one household, a single tenant or two people sharing.
Alongside it, an additional HMO licence is needed anywhere in the borough when three or four people from two or more households share. Larger shares already needed a mandatory HMO licence. Hackney ran an earlier pair of schemes from 2018 that lapsed in 2023, so for some landlords this is the second round.
The licence is the landlord’s paperwork. For you, the useful part is that a licensed landlord has conditions to keep, and the check-in inventory is still the measure at check-out. The council’s property licensing page lists the wards. Neighbouring London Fields and Homerton are inside the selective scheme too.
Selective licensing now covers 17 of the borough’s 21 wards, Hackney Central included.
Zone D parking and the two stations
Hackney Central sits in parking Zone D, controlled Monday to Saturday from 8.30am to 11pm. That is longer than most of the borough: neighbouring zones such as Q (Well Street) stop at 6.30pm on weekdays.
A van in a resident bay needs a visitor voucher all day and into the evening. If you have Hackney visitor vouchers, keep enough for one cleaning day; they last five to eight hours depending on the zone, or there is a 48-hour version.
Hackney Central station, on the Mildmay line of the Overground in fare zone 2, reopened on 12 May 1980 after the line east of Dalston had been closed to passengers in 1944. Since July 2015 a walkway has linked it to Hackney Downs, on the Weaver line into Liverpool Street.
If you work in the City, the clean can happen on a weekday while you are at the office; let the cleaners in before you leave, or arrange for your agent to.
What the cleaners do, room by room
The work follows our 57-point checklist. We started in 2014, and the cleaners are vetted with a face-to-face interview, insured and trained on the list before they go out.
In the kitchen they empty and wipe every cupboard and drawer, degrease the hob, the splashback and the extractor (filter included), clean the fridge and freezer you defrosted the night before, and do the washing machine’s drawer and seal. Appliances that slide out come out, and the floor behind them is washed.
Hackney’s water comes from Thames Water, which says all the water in its region is hard because it passes through chalk and limestone. Scale builds on chrome taps, shower heads and glass screens in a few months, and an inventory clerk records it as dirt. The cleaners descale those, scrub the grout and clean the toilet, bath, basin and fan grille, and that is in the fixed price.
In the bedrooms and living room they wipe skirting, doors, frames, switches, radiators and window frames and sills, clean the glass on the inside, and empty and wipe wardrobes. Floors are left until last. Sash windows in the older houses get the runners and the sill cleared of grit, and in conversions where the window shutters still work, the shutter boxes are wiped out.
More than 300 letting agents work with us and our Google rating is 4.7. If your agent or clerk lists anything about the clean within 48 hours, the cleaners return and do it again at no cost.
Oven, carpets and other add-ons
The oven is always an add-on. Booked with the clean, a single or single wide oven is £31, and a double or a 90cm range cooker £62. Our oven cleaning page explains how the oven is cleaned and the racks soaked.
Plenty of Hackney flats have wood or laminate floors, so you may need no carpet cleaning at all. Where you do, with the end of tenancy clean it is £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. A flat on the first floor of a Graham Road house usually has one flight from the street door. See carpet cleaning for the method.
If you are staying and want a regular cleaner, weekly visits are £23 an hour, three hours at a time (from £69); details are on our domestic cleaning page. The rest of the borough is on the end of tenancy cleaning Hackney page.
Questions from Hackney Central renters
My landlord has only just applied for a selective licence. Does that affect my deposit?
No. Licensing is between the landlord and the council. Your deposit is judged against the check-in inventory, allowing for fair wear and tear.
Zone D runs until 11pm. Will parking cost me extra?
Only if we have to pay to park; that cost is added at what we pay. A visitor voucher from you avoids it.
Four of us share a house off Mare Street and are moving out on different days. What should we book?
Whoever leaves first can book their room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom by the hour, at £30 per cleaner. The last person out books the whole house at the fixed price for its bedroom count.
Do you clean the 1930s blocks on the Pembury Estate?
Yes. They are priced like any flat, so a two-bed is £243. Tell us which floor the flat is on when you book.
Can you clean on the morning of my check-out?
Often, if the check-out is in the afternoon. Book as early as you can, because dates at the end of the month fill first.