Professional cleaning in Hackney

Hackney’s licensing has two layers, both running from May 2026 until the end of April 2031. Selective licensing applies to lets to a single household or a pair of sharers in 17 wards. Among the wards covered on this page, Hackney Central, Dalston, Homerton, Stoke Newington, Clissold, Springfield, Lea Bridge, Stamford Hill West and Cazenove are in; Hoxton West and Hoxton East and Shoreditch are out. The other eight are Brownswood, De Beauvoir, Hackney Downs, Hackney Wick, King’s Park, London Fields, Shacklewell and Victoria. Sharing triggers HMO licensing anywhere in Hackney: an additional licence when three or four occupants come from at least two households, a mandatory one from five occupants up.

A licensed let still changes hands like any other. When it does, an end of tenancy clean brings the home back to the inventory, starting at £156 for a studio and at £425 for four bedrooms. Bedroom carpets can be cleaned on that booking at £29 each and the living room carpet at £36. To hold the date we take half the price as a deposit, by card or bank transfer.

Private tenants are the largest group in Dalston ward: 43.0% of households in 2021, against 32.2% across Hackney. Many homes are carved out of older buildings, with 21.5% in houses converted or shared and 7.2% in other buildings turned into homes. Valuation Office counts put 42.9% of Dalston’s homes before 1919 and 33.9% in 2000 or later, so a booking can be a flat in a Victorian building or one in a block finished this century.

Kingsland High Street follows the line of the Roman Ermine Street, and its mostly Victorian and Edwardian frontage, long purpose-built terraces included, became the Dalston conservation area on 20 July 2016. In the St Mark’s conservation area, the villas of the 1860s around St Mark’s church fall under an Article 4 direction from November 2008, so altering windows, front doors, railings or plasterwork, or painting the outside, needs planning permission. With rented flats turning over, professional cleaning between tenants often starts at the oven. An oven clean on its own starts at £77, or £31 added to a move-out. Dalston is zone C, controlled every day but Sunday from 8.30am to 6.30pm.

The Hackney ward that takes in Shoreditch is a ward of flats. Nearly all households in Hoxton East and Shoreditch (95.9%) had a flat in 2021; purpose-built blocks accounted for 83.5% and converted buildings such as old warehouses for 6.7%. Valuation Office counts date almost half the homes (48.8%) to 2000 or later. The streets of South Shoreditch were shaped by the furniture and printing trades of the mid to late 1800s, and the conservation area there dates from 1991, with extensions in 2019 and 2021. Hoxton Street, a conservation area from 1983, keeps a market street of three and four storey buildings with some 18th century houses.

A former workshop flat may have bare boards or a sealed concrete floor. Hard floors are cleaned from £6 per square metre, or cleaned and polished from £8, and a deep clean of the whole flat starts at £186 for two cleaners. Parking depends on which half of Shoreditch you are in: North Shoreditch, zone B, keeps control until midnight from Monday to Saturday, and South Shoreditch, also zone B, finishes at 6.30pm on weekdays and 1.30pm on Saturdays. The ward is outside selective licensing, so for a single-household let, professional cleaning between tenants is booked around the move date alone.

Homerton has the largest post-war housing share of the Hackney areas on this page: Valuation Office counts date 39.2% of homes to 1945 to 1972. At the 2021 census, purpose-built blocks held 72.0% of households and social landlords housed 49.7%, council tenants alone 28.0%. On Homerton High Street, the council’s Bridge House and Marian Court regeneration has delivered 115 council homes, in Chervil House, Brooklime House, Burdock Court, Wintergreen Court and Featherfew Court, and a final phase of 163 homes is planned.

Fresh building means fresh dust. If a new flat is handed over with plaster dust in the cupboards, an after builders clean starts at £212. Parking starts early here: zone N switches on at 7.30am on weekdays and runs to 6.30pm, so a cleaner arriving at 8am pays from the first minute. The Clapton Square conservation area centres on St John’s Church of 1792 to 1797 and the listed terraces around Clapton Square, and the Well Street conservation area (19 July 2021) has Victorian terraces now under an Article 4 direction. Homerton is a selective licensing ward, so a landlord here needs a licence even for a single-household let, alongside professional cleaning between tenants.

Homes in Stamford Hill run larger than the Hackney norm. In 2021, 20.7% of households in the Stamford Hill West and Cazenove wards had four or more bedrooms, against 12.0% across the borough. A four-bedroom home starts at £425 for an end of tenancy clean, and a big household’s sofas and dining chairs can take more wear: with upholstery cleaning, which starts at £67 a visit, a two-seat sofa is listed at £57 and each dining chair at £13.

The Northwold and Cazenove conservation area, designated on 15 September 2010, was almost all built between 1865 and 1895 on Tyssen-Amhurst land, as a late Victorian estate of terraces in buff London stock brick with painted details. Parking controls are light. The Stamford Hill zones, W, T and Y, share the same two-hour weekday window, 10am to noon, so professional cleaning that starts after midday, or at a weekend, needs no paid bay. Water from Thames Water’s Stamford Hill supply zone, serving N16 5PP, tested at 243 to 271 mg/l in 2025: slightly softer than Hackney West, and still in the hard band.