Whitechapel end of tenancy prices
Whitechapel’s rented flats run from Edwardian tenements off Fieldgate Street to 25-storey towers at the Silk District, with the Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary’s medical school in between. Our end of tenancy clean is fixed by bedrooms: £156 for a studio, £207 for one bedroom, £243 for two, £339 for three and £425 for four. The oven and carpets are extras you add only if you need them.
Last updated October 2026.
| 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 |
| Your room in a shared flat, or part of a home | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Rents give the deposit its weight. The ONS average for a one-bed in Tower Hamlets was £1,992 a month in August 2026, and £2,418 for a two-bed. With deposits capped at five weeks’ rent when the yearly rent is under £50,000, a one-bed at that average carries a deposit of about £2,300.
Tenements, council blocks and new towers
Fieldgate Mansions is the most recognisable old housing in Whitechapel. Israel Davis built it between 1903 and 1907 on London Hospital land, across Romford Street, Myrdle Street and Fieldgate Street: 34 red-brick blocks, each of eight one-bedroom flats, with open concrete staircases under arched gables.
The Samuel Lewis Housing Trust converted and modernised them between 1983 and 1991 for the close-knit Bengali community living there. A tenancy there is a compact clean, but the kitchens and bathrooms are small, and every surface the clerk touches is close to another.
Council building came in waves. The London County Council put up Herbert House and Jacobson House on Old Castle Street in 1935 and 1936, five storeys of neo-Georgian red brick with access balconies at the back, and the Greater London Council added blocks such as Denning Point in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ex-council flats like these are let privately now, and they are usually solid, square rooms with older fittings.
The newest layer is the Silk District, built by Mount Anvil with L&Q on a 3.5-acre site, with buildings of 4 to 25 storeys. Its Jacquard and Georgette blocks were finished in 2021, with a 24-hour concierge, a gym and a roof terrace. Those flats have big windows, integrated kitchens and glass shower screens, which is where the cleaning time goes.
Whitechapel Road holds the institutions that shape renting here. The new Royal London Hospital opened in 2012 beside its old building, and since 2023 the old hospital has been the Tower Hamlets Town Hall. On Queen Mary’s Whitechapel campus, Floyer House has 150 rooms with shared bathrooms, kept for medical and dental students.
Whitechapel licensing after September 2026
Whitechapel was one of three wards in Tower Hamlets’ selective licensing scheme, with Weavers and Spitalfields & Banglatown. It ran first from 1 October 2016 and was renewed from 1 October 2021, and it ended on 30 September 2026. From 1 October 2026 no new selective licences are needed in the borough.
Licences already issued stay valid until they expire, and the council says it will keep inspecting them. It has commissioned a study of the private rented sector and is considering what a new scheme could look like.
Shared homes are a different matter. Additional HMO licensing has covered the whole borough, Whitechapel ward included, since 1 April 2024: any flat or house where three or more people from two or more households share a kitchen or bathroom needs a licence. The details are on the council’s selective licensing page.
Licensing is the landlord’s duty. Your deposit still turns on the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed, and a landlord cannot make a professional clean a condition of the tenancy.
From 1 October 2026 no new selective licences are needed in the borough.
The clean, room by room
Every Whitechapel clean follows our 57-point checklist:
- Kitchen: inside and outside all cupboards and drawers, worktops, tiles, hob, extractor and filter, fridge and freezer, the floor under appliances that slide out.
- Bathroom: bath or tray, screen, taps, shower head, tiles and grout, toilet, basin and mirror. Thames Water supplies the area and says all its water is hard, so every one of those is descaled.
- Bedrooms and living room: wardrobes inside, skirting, doors and frames, switches, sockets, radiators, sills and window tracks.
- Stairs and hall: banisters, steps and the inside of the front door.
- Floors: vacuumed and washed throughout.
In a shared flat, the shared kitchen and bathroom are where clerks find most to note, so that is where the cleaners start.
Oven and carpet add-ons
The oven is not part of the fixed price. 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 it is cleaned.
Carpets with the clean cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Read the tenancy agreement for a carpet clause first; our carpet cleaning page covers the service on its own.
Booking around the market and the hospital
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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Whitechapel Road market trades Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm, between Vallance Road and Cambridge Heath Road, next to the station. Whitechapel Road is part of TfL’s road network and carries Cycleway 2, so our cleaners park in side streets; any parking we pay for is added at what it costs us. The station has the District, Hammersmith & City, Elizabeth and Windrush lines; the Elizabeth line has stopped here since it opened on 24 May 2022.
If you work hospital shifts, you do not need to be in the flat while we clean. Leave the keys with your agent or a neighbour, and the flat empty, with power and hot water on. Use the calculator at the top of the page, or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, seven days a week.
Our cleaners are vetted with an in-person interview, insured and trained on the checklist. We have worked since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits after our cleans, and our Google rating is 4.7. If the agent or clerk flags something within 48 hours, we return and clean it again free. Nearby we also work in Spitalfields, Aldgate, Mile End and Wapping, and across Tower Hamlets.
Questions from Whitechapel tenants
My Whitechapel flat had a selective licence. Does it still count now the scheme has ended?
Yes. A licence issued under the scheme stays valid until its expiry date, and the landlord must keep to its conditions until then.
We are four sharers in a flat near the hospital. Does our landlord need a licence?
Yes. Since April 2024 Tower Hamlets’ additional licensing covers homes shared by three or more people from two or more households.
How much for a one-bed in Fieldgate Mansions?
£207, fixed, plus £31 if you want a single oven cleaned.
I am the first of three sharers to move out. What should I book?
Your room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom, by the hour at £30 per cleaner. The last person out can book the whole flat at the fixed price.
Can you clean a Silk District flat with a concierge on the door?
Yes. Tell us the building and floor when you book, and let the concierge know our cleaners are coming.