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Pre-sale cleaning in Soho W1
Getting a W1 property ready for the camera, the valuation and the first viewing. Fixed prices from £135, timed to your listing date, with parking, permits and ULEZ inside the quote.
- £1m public liability
- Basic DBS-checked teams
- Since 2019
- Covering every street in W1
- Entrance, kitchen, bathrooms, light, floors and odour — in buyer order
- 72-hour promise — anything missed, we come back free
The service, locally
Selling in Soho? present it properly first
Soho pre-sale cleaning, W1. Two tiers — a photo-ready presentation clean before the shoot and a full pre-sale reset before the market sees it — across W1 and the neighbouring Westminster streets around Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line), with 20% owner-occupation locally.
Most Soho properties we prepare are narrow georgian houses split into flats, walk-ups above bars, with 98% of homes here being flats, and small new schemes for Soho (W1) addresses. Buyers arriving from Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) judge the hallway before they reach the kitchen in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with this being Westminster City Council territory, so that is where the clean starts.
- Primary postcode
- W1Primary postcode
- Photo-ready clean from
- £135Photo-ready clean from
- Soho homes that are flats
- 97.5%Soho homes that are flats
- Nearest station
- Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line)Nearest station
- Local landmark
- Carnaby Street and Golden SquareLocal landmark
Why sellers book it
What a pre-sale clean in Soho actually buys you
Photographs sell the viewing
Presentation is priced into offers
Timed around the agent, not the diary
One team, one fixed price
Each of these is explained in full on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
In buyer order
The rooms a buyer judges and the order we clean them
Front door and hallway
The first ten seconds of a viewing.
Kitchen
Worktops, splashbacks, cupboard fronts, handles, extractor and the oven interior.
Bathrooms and en-suites
Limescale off screens, taps and tiles, grout brightened, silicone treated for mould and chrome polished.
Windows and light
Glass, frames, cills, tracks and trickle vents inside, plus external glass as an add-on.
Floors and traffic lanes
Correct product for the finish, edges by hand, and extraction on carpets to lift traffic lanes and the dark edging along skirtings..
Smell
Bins, drains, waste traps, soft furnishings and pet areas treated at source.
Fixed prices
Pre-sale cleaning prices in Soho W1
| Property | Photo-ready | Full pre-sale reset | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio / 1-bed flat | £135 | £215 | 1–2 cleaners |
| 2-bed flat or house | £175 | £285 | 2 cleaners |
| 3-bed house | £235 | £365 | 2 cleaners |
| 4-bed house | £295 | £455 | 2–3 cleaners |
| 5-bed / large house | £365 | £585 | 3 cleaners |
Prices include VAT, all products and equipment, parking, permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where it applies. Nothing is added on the day.
What each tier includes, room by room, is set out on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
Add-ons
What else sellers add in Soho priced up front
External window and frame clean
£75 per propertyCarpet and upholstery extraction
£55 per roomKerb appeal wash-down
£95 per propertyDeclutter and staging tidy
£90 per half dayRemoval of unwanted items
£90 per van loadOdour and pet treatment
£65 per propertyViewing-day touch-up visit
£85 per visit
Not the same job
Pre-sale clean or deep clean which one you need
A deep clean is judged by the people living in the home; a pre-sale clean is judged by buyers, photographers and valuers. The full side-by-side comparison sits on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
Not selling yet? One-off deep cleaning in London is the right service, and end of tenancy cleaning covers a let coming to an end.
How it works
Booking a Soho pre-sale clean around the listing date
- Tell us the listing date, not just the bedroomsPhotography day, first open house and completion are three different jobs.
- Get a fixed price in about a minuteChoose the property size and the tier — photo-ready presentation or the full pre-sale reset — and the price on screen is the price on the day, with parking, permits and ULEZ already inside it..
- The presentation clean, in buyer orderA DBS-checked team works the rooms in the order buyers judge them: entrance, kitchen, bathrooms, light, floors and odour, top down, with the styling tidy last..
- Photography-day check and touch-upWe can hold a short visit for the morning of the shoot or the open house so glass, worktops and floors are put back to photograph condition after a week of living in the property..
- Walk-round, snag sheet and the 72-hour promiseWe walk the property with you before we leave.
Coverage
Around Soho and the streets next door
Soho (W1) sits in Westminster — our crews cover the whole W1 district and the streets bordering it.
Related services
Other cleaning we run in Soho W1
One-off deep cleaning
Staying put a while longer in Soho? The same detail, without the photography deadline.
End of tenancy cleaning
Selling with a tenant in situ across W1? The inventory-standard check-out clean.
Carpet cleaning
Hot-water extraction lifts the traffic lanes that make Soho listing photographs look tired.
Appliance and oven cleaning
Buyers open the oven. Dip-tank cleaning for Soho kitchens before the viewings start.
After builders cleaning
Refurbished to sell in W1? Fine construction dust cleared before the photographer arrives.
Jet washing
Kerb appeal first: driveways, paths and frontages around Soho pressure washed for the exterior shot.
Regular domestic cleaning
Keep an Soho home viewing-ready week after week with the same cleaner.
Hoarder clean-up
Where a Soho property has to be cleared before it can be marketed, we start there — discreetly.
Office cleaning
Marketing a W1 commercial unit? Presentation cleaning and ongoing contracts for workplaces.
About the place
Soho at a glance W1
Soho sits in Westminster, served by Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) on Westminster bookings. Post-production studios, restaurants and above-shop flats packed into a Georgian grid on the Soho rounds. Grew from the abbey and royal court; the Grosvenor and Portman estates laid out the stucco squares still standing today on W1 jobs, with this being a short walk from Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line).
3% privately rented (ONS Census 2021). Those proportions tell you who your buyer is likely to be and how the property should be presented for them on W1 jobs, with Carnaby Street and Golden Square a few streets away.
Access for our van: Pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default on W1 jobs, with this being Westminster City Council territory. Parking, permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where it applies are already inside the price you are quoted around Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line), with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood.
Where Soho sits in our coverage
Soho is one of the neighbourhoods on our pre-sale cleaning in Westminster page, which sits under pre-sale cleaning across London. Nearest pages to this one, in travel order: pre-sale cleaning in Fitzrovia W1 (under ½ mile), pre-sale cleaning in Mayfair W1 (under ½ mile), pre-sale cleaning in Covent Garden WC2 (0.9 miles), pre-sale cleaning in Holborn WC1 (1.0 miles) and pre-sale cleaning in St James's SW1 (1.3 miles). If your address sits on the boundary, book the closest page — the price and the crew are the same. For every trade we run at this postcode, see all services in Soho.
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Area at a glance
Soho W1 by the numbers
Who lives here and what they live in decides how a clean is priced and how long it takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Fitzrovia West & Soho neighbourhood itself — not Westminster-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,879
Residents
Fitzrovia West & Soho neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,257
Households
Median age 33.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
53%
Privately rented
51.8%
- Median age
- 33.9
- Owner-occupied
- 20%
- Social rented
- 27.8%
- Postcode districts
- W1
- Nearest station
- Tottenham Court Road
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Fitzrovia West & Soho (E02000972) — the published geography that covers Soho, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the W1 district: 51.5158, -0.1424 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Questions
Pre-sale cleaning in Soho answered
From £135 for a photo-ready presentation clean in a studio or 1-bed up to £585 for a full pre-sale reset in a large house in Soho, with Westminster parking rules in play. A 2-bed in W1 is £175 to £285 and a 3-bed house £235 to £365 around Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) — and a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood, with 53% one-person households here, with VAT, products, parking, permits and ULEZ already inside the figure.
A W1 flat is three to six hours, a 3-bed house six to eight and a large house a full day across W1, with this being Westminster City Council territory. Much of Soho is recent stock, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood — and this being Westminster City Council territory, with 2% of Soho homes being houses on this side of Westminster, so the sale is competing against the developer's own show flat down the road on W1 jobs.
Yes — every street in W1, plus the neighbouring Westminster areas on the streets near Carnaby Street and Golden Square. Boundary postcodes are covered; enter your full postcode in the quote form and it confirms coverage instantly for Soho (W1) addresses, with 53% one-person households here.
Yes, and most Soho bookings are exactly that. We work early mornings and weekends, present wardrobes and worktops as space rather than storage on this side of Westminster — and Westminster parking rules in play, with 4,257 households on this patch, and box personal items neatly for the shoot rather than hiding them badly.
Pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default across W1, with 28% social-rented stock nearby. That is priced in — parking, permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where it applies never appear as an extra on the day around Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line), with 20% owner-occupation locally.
A declutter and staging tidy is £90 per half day and removal of unwanted items is from £110 a quarter van load under our upper-tier waste carrier registration across W1, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood — and 4,257 households on this patch, with a waste transfer note issued.
Tell us within 72 hours and we come back and put it right free of charge on the streets near Carnaby Street and Golden Square, with 98% of homes here being flats. For open houses we can also hold a short touch-up visit (£85) for the morning itself for Soho (W1) addresses, with Westminster parking rules in play.
Get your Soho, W1 property photograph-ready
Tell us your listing date and property size and we will hold the team, the price and the touch-up visit around it.
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