Havering homes, from council cottages to garden suburbs
Most rented homes in Havering are houses built for families: brick terraces on the Harold Hill estate, 1930s semis in Elm Park, the one-off Edwardian houses of Gidea Park. Our end of tenancy clean for any of them is a fixed price set by the bedroom count, £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.
Havering has one of the smallest private rented sectors in London. At the 2021 census 15.8% of households rented privately, up from 10.6% in 2011, and only Bexley had a lower share in Greater London. The London figure was 30%. So a let here is often a whole house with a garden door, a loft hatch and sometimes a garage, and the check-out report runs to more rooms than a flat in Hackney or Camden would.
The Harold Hill estate, in the north of the borough, was built by the London County Council between 1948 and 1958: 7,631 permanent homes for about 25,000 people, mostly brick terraces with some flats, laid out round open parkland. They are plain, solid houses, and the work in them is in the kitchens and bathrooms that have been refitted several times. Our Harold Hill page covers the estate in more detail.
Gidea Park is the opposite case. Romford Garden Suburb went up between July 1910 and June 1911 as an exhibition: 159 houses and cottages by more than 100 architects, so almost no two are alike. A second exhibition in 1934 and 1935 added 35 flat-roofed modern houses. The area has been a conservation area since 1970, so an inventory in Gidea Park can list original doors, fireplaces and windows that need care.
Elm Park was a private venture. In May 1933 the builder Richard Costain announced 7,000 houses on 600 acres for sale, and the District line station opened in 1935. War stopped the scheme part-built, and by 1964 the council had added 1,146 council houses. The result is streets of near-identical semis and short terraces, which makes Elm Park one of the easier parts of the borough to price over the phone.
At the other end of the age range is Beam Park, on the Havering and Barking and Dagenham border along the River Beam. L&Q and Countryside started building in 2019 on consent for 3,000 homes, with 947 more approved in 2022, and the first residents moved in during December 2020. Its station has still not opened. The blocks are mostly flats, and our Rainham page covers that side of the borough.
A let here is often a whole house with a garden door, a loft hatch and sometimes a garage.
Fixed prices for a Havering end of tenancy clean
Rents in Havering are below the London average but still high enough to make the deposit matter. The ONS put the average private rent here at £1,565 a month in August 2026, and a one-bed at £1,217; the London average was £2,332. With five weeks’ rent held as a deposit, a one-bed deposit at that rent is about £1,400, all of it waiting on the check-out report.
| Property | Price | Typical Havering example |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | £156 | Converted flat above a Romford shop parade |
| One-bed flat | £207 | Beam Park or Romford town centre block |
| Two-bed flat or small house | £243 | Harold Hill terrace, two-bed new build |
| Three-bed house | £339 | Elm Park or Hornchurch semi |
| Four-bed house | £425 | Gidea Park or Emerson Park family house |
| Five bedrooms or more | Quoted from the room count | Larger Upminster and Emerson Park houses |
| Part job or unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour | One room in a shared house, an annexe |
The prices are for an empty home in ordinary end-of-tenancy condition. Kit, products and the 57-point checklist are in them. The online calculator at the top of the page gives the figure for your postcode and bedroom count, with any add-ons.
Inside the clean, room by room
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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Havering’s water comes from Essex & Suffolk Water, which also supplies Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge. It is hard, and in a house that has had three or four years of family showers the scale is on the screen, the shower head, the bath taps and the tiles behind them. Descaling is part of the clean. If you want to know how hard the water is on your street, the company has a postcode hardness checker.
- Kitchen: inside every cupboard and drawer, worktops, the hob and splashback, extractor hood and filter, the fridge and freezer, the washing machine drawer and door seal, the sink and taps.
- Bathroom and any downstairs toilet: scale off taps, screen, shower head and tiles, grout scrubbed, toilet, bath and basin, extractor cover.
- Bedrooms, halls and stairs: skirting, doors and frames, radiators, light switches, window sills and the inside of the glass, inside built-in wardrobes, floors vacuumed and mopped.
- House extras: the back door and its frame, conservatory glass from inside, the understairs cupboard.
The cleaners are vetted (each one is interviewed in person), insured and trained on the checklist. We have worked in London since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, and tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits after our cleans. Our Google rating is 4.7.
The oven is never in the fixed price. Added to the clean, a single or single wide oven is £31, and a double or a 90cm range cooker £62; the standalone service is on our oven cleaning in Havering page.
Carpets booked with the clean are £29 per bedroom, £36 for a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Two reception rooms knocked into one count as a through lounge. Carpets on their own are on the carpet cleaning Havering page.
Selective licensing in seven wards since March 2026
Havering Council started two new licensing schemes on 18 March 2026, both running until 17 March 2031. Selective licensing covers privately rented homes let to one household or to two unrelated sharers in seven wards: Beam Park, Harold Wood, Rainham and Wennington, Rush Green and Crowlands, Squirrels Heath, St Alban’s and St Edwards.
The licence costs the landlord £950 before discounts. Additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough for homes let to three or four unrelated people who share a kitchen or bathroom, and the national mandatory scheme still applies to HMOs with five or more people.
The licence is the landlord’s responsibility. It does not change what you owe at check-out, which is still the condition on your check-in inventory, less fair wear and tear. The council’s property licensing page lists the wards if you are unsure which side of a boundary you live on.
Notice periods, inventories and getting the deposit back
Since the Renters’ Rights Act tenancy changes came into force on 1 May 2026, private tenancies in England roll on with no fixed end date, and a tenant can leave by giving two months’ notice. That sets your check-out date for you. Book the clean for the last day or two before it, once the furniture has gone.
The Tenant Fees Act 2019 still stops a landlord from making a professional clean a condition of the tenancy. What the landlord can do is claim from the deposit if the home is dirtier than it was at check-in. If the clerk or the agent flags anything on our work, tell us within 48 hours and a cleaner comes back to redo those items at no charge.
A few things are worth doing yourself before we arrive. Defrost the fridge the night before. Leave the electricity and hot water on. Clear the loft if the inventory lists it as empty.
Visitor permits on the day, and booking
Parts of Romford sit in controlled parking zones. Havering’s visitor permits are virtual, bought through MiPermit, at £28 for ten visits or £70 for ten all-day permits. If you live in a zone and have permits, an all-day one for our van saves a trip to the meter. If we have to pay to park, the charge goes on the quote at what it costs us.
Call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, seven days a week, or use the calculator. Give us the postcode, the bedrooms, whether it is a house or a flat, the check-out date and any oven or carpet work. Dates at the end of the month book up first. We cover every part of the borough, from Collier Row to Rainham; the full area list sits on our end of tenancy cleaning London page.
Moving out because you are staying in the area? Regular cleaning is on our domestic cleaning Havering page, from £69 for a three-hour visit.
Havering end of tenancy questions
I rent in Squirrels Heath ward. Does the new licence change my check-out?
No. The licence is between your landlord and the council. Your check-out is still judged against the check-in inventory, and fair wear and tear is allowed for.
Our Gidea Park house has five bedrooms. How is that priced?
Homes above four bedrooms are quoted from the room count. Tell us the bedrooms, bathrooms and reception rooms, and whether there is a loft room or a conservatory, and we give a fixed figure before you book.
Is a new-build flat at Beam Park cheaper to clean?
It is the same fixed price by bedrooms: £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed. New kitchens still collect grease in the extractor and on the hob, and the shower glass scales up just as fast as in an older flat.
I gave two months’ notice. When should I book?
As soon as you know the last day. Book the clean for after the removal van has gone and before the check-out appointment, ideally the day before, and give us a week’s notice if the date falls at the end of a month.
My Harold Hill house has a through lounge. Which carpet price applies?
The through lounge price, £47, booked with the end of tenancy clean. Bedrooms are £29 each and the stairs £35 a flight.