Muswell Hill’s rented homes: mansion flats, parades and Edwardian houses
Muswell Hill rentals are mostly Edwardian flats and mansion blocks, and an end of tenancy clean for one is priced by size, from £156 for a studio; the largest family houses on our list are £425. We have cleaned in N10 since 2014, to a 57-point checklist, and anything a clerk flags within 48 hours gets a free return visit.
Last updated October 2026.
Almost everything you can rent in Muswell Hill went up in a short burst between 1896 and 1914. James Edmondson bought The Limes and Fortis House in 1896 and built first the three-storey parades along Fortis Green Road, Muswell Hill Road and Colney Hatch Lane, with shops at street level and flats above.
Prince’s Avenue and Queens Avenue were his first residential streets, then Hillfield Park, then Wellfield Avenue, Elms Avenue and Dukes Avenue south of Muswell Road. William Jefferies Collins took the land to the south and east, with Grand Avenue as the spine of an estate built between 1901 and 1909.
That gives three kinds of let, and each one cleans differently.
- Flats above the Broadway parades. Usually up a shared stair from a street door between the shops, with sash windows facing the main road. Traffic dust settles on the sills and inside the sash runners, and the clerk checks both.
- Mansion flats. The Collins family built apartment blocks along the main road frontages: Birchwood Mansions on Fortis Green Road (1907, now Grade II listed), then Fortis Court in the 1920s and Twyford Court in 1933. Thomas Finnane’s Summerland Mansions (1904) stands where the Broadway meets Muswell Hill, and Palace Mansions curves round the corner into Muswell Road. Big rooms, high ceilings, picture rails, and a communal entrance the managing agent keeps an eye on.
- Edwardian houses and the flats cut out of them. When Haringey made central Muswell Hill a conservation area on 1 March 1974, the only real pressure for change it recorded was owners turning houses into flats. Many were converted, so a first-floor flat on Dukes Avenue can have the same cornices, deep skirting and stained-glass door panels as the whole house next door.
Whole family houses do come up to let too, on the avenues around Fortismere School on Tetherdown and on the Rookfield estate, which has its own conservation area and an Article 4 direction controlling alterations. A four- or five-bedroom Edwardian house with a loft room is a long day for a team. Renting is common here: at the 2021 census 35.6% of Haringey households rented privately, against 30% across London.
One note on the borough line. Most of Muswell Hill is in Haringey, but its northern fringe, out towards Coppetts Wood, falls in Barnet. We cover that side too, along with the rest of the end of tenancy cleaning in Barnet.
Fixed prices for an N10 end of tenancy clean
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio or bedsit | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or maisonette | £243 |
| Three-bedroom flat or house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Part jobs, five-bed houses and odd layouts | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The price covers the empty home from the top landing down: every room, every cupboard, both sides of the internal doors. An Edwardian house bigger than four bedrooms is quoted from the room count, and a job where only the kitchen and bathroom need doing is £30 per cleaner per hour.
Where the van needs a paid bay or a visitor voucher, we add what it costs us and show it on the quote. The price calculator at the top of this page gives a figure in under a minute, or you can ring 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, any day of the week.
Licensing on both sides of the Haringey and Barnet line
Haringey’s selective licensing scheme, which runs from 17 November 2022 to November 2027, covers 14 wards in the east of the borough such as Tottenham Hale, Noel Park and Bounds Green. Muswell Hill and Fortis Green are not among them, so a flat let to one household here needs no licence.
Shared houses are different. Haringey’s additional HMO licensing has covered every ward since 17 June 2024 and runs until 16 June 2029. If three or more people from more than one household share a kitchen or bathroom, the landlord needs a licence; at five or more the mandatory national licence applies as well.
The council’s HMO licence checker explains the rules. On the Barnet side, borough-wide additional HMO licensing has applied since 27 October 2022, and this summer Barnet consulted on selective licensing in ten wards, Friern Barnet among them. That scheme is not in force.
For the clean, a licensed shared house usually means a formal inventory and a communal kitchen everyone will be judged on. When sharers leave on different days, one person can book their own room plus a share of the kitchen and bathroom by the hour, and the last one out books the rest.
The 57-point clean in a period flat
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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Thames Water supplies N10, and its water comes through chalk and limestone, so it is hard. Scale builds on taps, shower screens and the inside of kettles faster than most tenants notice, and a clerk writes it up as dirt. Descaling is part of the clean at no extra charge.
Period flats add their own list. Sash windows have deep runners and a meeting rail that collect black grime, and the small panes in the top sashes, common across Edmondson’s and Collins’s houses, each need doing by hand.
Picture rails, the tops of tall doors and cornices hold a line of dust a clerk can see from the doorway, so the team brings steps. Original tiled paths and hallway floors get scrubbed along the grout. Old boards and parquet are cleaned with a damp mop and not soaked.
The rest of the checklist is the same in every home: inside and outside the kitchen cupboards, worktops, splashbacks and the extractor hood and filter; the fridge and freezer (switch them off and leave the doors open the night before); the washing machine drawer and door seal; behind any appliance that slides out; bathrooms descaled and grout scrubbed; skirting, switches, radiators, internal glass and inside the wardrobes; floors vacuumed and mopped. The home needs to be empty, with the electricity and hot water on.
A scratch in a worktop or a crack in a basin is damage. The clerk records it separately, and cleaning will not take it off the report.
Oven and carpet add-ons
The oven is never part of the fixed price. Added to the clean it costs £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Our oven cleaning page covers a standalone oven clean.
Check your tenancy for a carpet clause. Booked alongside the end of tenancy clean, carpet cleaning costs £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. The carpet cleaning page has prices for carpets on their own.
A clerk can see the dust on a picture rail from the doorway.
Deposits and the check-out report
Your landlord must put your deposit into one of the three government-backed schemes (the Deposit Protection Service, mydeposits or the Tenancy Deposit Scheme) within 30 days of receiving it, and tell you which one. At the end, the clerk compares the home with the check-in inventory. Anything dirtier than it was at the start, allowing for fair wear and tear, can become a deduction, and you can dispute it free through the scheme.
The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a landlord from making you pay for a professional clean or use a named company. What they can ask is that the flat goes back as clean as it was at check-in.
A receipt for a professional clean against a 57-point checklist is good evidence if a deduction is disputed, and our free re-clean within 48 hours deals with anything the agent or clerk flags before it reaches that stage. More than 300 letting agents work with us, and the deposits we have helped tenants win back come to £1.2m.
Parking on Muswell Hill’s controlled streets
Muswell Hill has had no station since the branch line through it closed in 1954; the trackbed is now the Parkland Walk. The nearest Tube stations are Highgate and East Finchley on the Northern line and Bounds Green on the Piccadilly line, and Alexandra Palace station is at the bottom of the hill. Our cleaners arrive by van with the equipment, so parking decides how the morning starts.
Haringey’s Muswell Hill zone (MH) is unusual: it runs seven days a week, 11am to 1pm, so a Sunday check-out still needs a permit or a paid bay over lunchtime. Muswell Hill West runs Monday to Friday 10am to 2pm, and the Fortis Green zone 11am to 1pm on weekdays.
If you have visitor vouchers left, one for the van saves money and a walk with the kit. Tell us the floor and whether there is a lift; some of the older mansion blocks have none.
The same team covers the streets downhill in Crouch End, where most lets are converted Victorian houses, and over the hill in Highgate. If your check-out lands at the end of a month or in the school summer holiday, book a week or two ahead.
End of tenancy cleaning Muswell Hill FAQs
My flat is above a shop on the Broadway. Is it priced the same?
Yes. It is priced by bedrooms. Tell us if the stair is shared with the shop and whether the street door has a code, so the team can get in without you.
Does my Muswell Hill landlord need a licence?
Only for a shared house. Muswell Hill is outside Haringey’s selective licensing wards, but any house shared by three or more people from more than one household needs an additional HMO licence until at least June 2029.
Can you clean a five-bedroom Edwardian house in a day?
Usually, with a bigger team. Houses above four bedrooms are quoted from the room count, so we will ask about bathrooms, the loft room and any carpets before quoting.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.
Do you clean on Sundays in N10?
Yes, seven days a week. Bear in mind the Muswell Hill parking zone also runs on Sundays between 11am and 1pm, so a visitor voucher still helps.