In Shoreditch (E1) the split is 98% flats to 2% houses over 3,361 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
The renter-heavy mix here (20% owned, 37% privately rented) means a E1 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, which is why London Borough of Hackney kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in E1. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Shoreditch gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 20% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Shoreditch is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — warehouse offices, rooftop bars and Boxpark on the City fringe — which is why a E1 quote is not a Hackney average.
Night-economy congestion, narrow one-way streets and loft buildings with shared goods lifts. Nearest station is Shoreditch High Street (Overground), and two operatives with a Luton van as standard, scaling to a second vehicle for a full three-bed or a property with no lift.