Who rents in New Malden
New Malden grew around its station, which opened on 1 December 1846 on the main line out of Waterloo: two and three-bedroom terraces filled the streets north of it from the late 1800s, and farmland south of the Kingston bypass became semis and detached houses after the road opened in 1927.
Whichever kind of house or flat you are moving out of, our end of tenancy clean costs a fixed amount by bedroom count, from £156 for a studio and £339 for a three-bed semi.
Last updated November 2026.
The tenants are a wide mix. Commuters take South Western Railway trains from the Zone 4 station to Waterloo. The bigger semis and detached houses built in the 1930s and 1940s towards Coombe Hill are family homes.
And the Royal Borough of Kingston has the largest South Korean expatriate community in Europe, centred on the shops and restaurants of New Malden High Street. If you are flying out before the check-out, you can book and send photos on WhatsApp and leave the keys with your agent.
Kingston rents set the size of the deposit. The ONS average for Kingston in September 2026 was £1,821 a month: £1,386 for a one-bed, £1,765 for a two-bed and £2,167 for three bedrooms. A deposit can be up to five weeks’ rent, which on an average two-bed is roughly £2,040. That is the sum the check-out report is judged against.
Most of New Malden sits in Kingston upon Thames, but part of the town falls in the London Borough of Merton. Check your council tax bill if you are not sure, because the licensing notes below cover Kingston only.
The rules on leaving changed this year. Since 1 May 2026 most tenancies roll on month by month with no end date, and you give two months’ notice to go. Fix the clean for the last few days of that notice, with the keys still yours.
HMO licensing in Kingston
Kingston Council needs a licence only for a house shared by five or more people forming two or more households, according to its HMO licence page. That is the national minimum. The borough ran an additional scheme for smaller shared houses from 1 March 2018, and it ended on 28 February 2023 without a replacement. There is no selective licensing for ordinary single-household lets.
In practice that means most New Malden lets, a family semi or a self-contained flat, carry no licence at all. A house of three or four sharers needed one under the old scheme and does not now.
If you rent a room in a large shared house, your share of the kitchen and bathroom at the end is set by your agreement, so read it before you book; we price a room clean by the hour.
The clean, room by room
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
The team works from our 57-point checklist, top of the room to the floor. Every cleaner is interviewed in person before they join, insured, and trained on the list.
Kitchen. Cupboards and drawers inside and out, including the tops of wall units, then worktops, tiles, hob, extractor and filter, the sink and taps. The fridge and freezer are cleaned through once you have defrosted them, and the washing machine drawer and door seal are done. Appliances are pulled out where it is safe, so the floor behind them is washed.
Bathroom. Thames Water, which supplies this part of south-west London, says on its hard water page that all the water in its region is hard because it passes through chalk and limestone. Scale builds on taps, showerheads and glass, and clerks look for it. We descale all of it, scrub the grout, clean the toilet down to the base and wipe the extractor grille.
Bedrooms and living rooms. Skirting boards, doors, frames and handles, radiators, light switches, sockets and fittings, inside windows and sills, and the inside of wardrobes. In the older terraces north of the station, the tops of doors and frames gather dust over a long let, and a clerk’s camera often catches it. Carpets are vacuumed and hard floors washed last.
We bring the equipment and products. The property’s own electricity and hot water have to be on, because we do not bring a supply of either.
Fixed prices for New Malden homes
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One bedroom | £207 |
| Two bedrooms | £243 |
| Three bedrooms | £339 |
| Four bedrooms | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| Part of a home, one room, odd layouts | £30 per cleaner per hour |
These prices cover the whole checklist. The online price calculator at the top of the page adds anything extra you choose, plus a parking charge only on streets where we have to pay to park, at the cost to us.
Oven cleaning is an extra. On the same visit it costs £31 for a single oven or a single wide one and £62 for a double or a 90cm range.
Racks, trays and other parts that come out are soaked on their own while the cleaner works on the cavity, glass and seals by hand in your kitchen; the glass between the door panels is cleaned where the door design allows. Without an end of tenancy clean the oven is £77 single, £110 double, £114 single wide and £143 for a 90cm range cooker.
A long tenancy in a carpeted semi usually needs more than a vacuum. Added to the clean, carpet cleaning is £29 per bedroom, £36 for the living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 for a flight of stairs, £20 for the hall and £8 for a landing.
Arranging the day
Parking is tightening near the station. Kingston brought in a new permit parking area on Lincoln Road, Stafford Road and Warwick Road from 1 June 2026, running Monday to Saturday from 8:30am to 6:30pm. If you have a driveway, tell us when you book and the team will use it. Otherwise the council’s Malden Centre car park on Cocks Crescent is open 24 hours a day, every day.
Water is the other thing to check. On 28 September 2026 a burst Thames Water main at West Molesey cut supplies across Kingston, Merton and beyond, and Holy Cross School in New Malden had to close for the day. The clean cannot go ahead without running water, so if your supply is off that morning, ring us and we will move the booking.
Lines are open on 0333 555 2076 from 8am to 7pm, seven days a week, and WhatsApp messages and photos to the same number are answered in the same hours. We have cleaned rented homes since 2014 across London and the areas around it, more than 300 letting agents work with us, and we hold a 4.7 rating on Google.
Once we have finished, your agent or clerk has 48 hours to raise anything they are not happy with, and we go back and re-clean it free of charge. We cover the neighbouring areas too: Old Malden, the older village to the south, Coombe, where the bigger houses sit on the hill to the north, and Raynes Park, one stop up the line towards Wimbledon.
End of tenancy FAQs for New Malden
How much does it cost to clean a three-bed semi in New Malden at the end of a tenancy?
£339 for the house. A single oven adds £31, and carpets are £29 for each bedroom plus £36 for the living room. The calculator shows the exact total for your rooms.
Does my New Malden shared house still need a licence?
Only if five or more people from two or more households live there. Kingston’s additional licensing for smaller shared houses ended on 28 February 2023, so three or four sharers need no licence now.
Where do the cleaners park on roads near the station?
On a driveway if you have one, in a paid bay or in the Malden Centre car park on Cocks Crescent. Where we have to pay, the cost is shown in the calculator before you book.
What happens if the water is off on the day of the clean?
We need running water and power, so we will rebook for the first free slot after the supply is back. Call us as soon as you know.
How do I pay for the clean?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.