The EC3 stock around The Monument to the Great Fire is recent new-build. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,914 households in Monument and Eastcheap.
48% of households rent privately and 37% own, which is why movers near you demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Monument and Eastcheap substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — which is what a 98% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Monument and Eastcheap actually produces. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — with 15% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a EC3 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Monument and Eastcheap: riverside City streets between London Bridge and the Tower, dense with narrow lanes. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Monument and Eastcheap sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Lower Thames Street is a red route; the lanes behind take a small van only. Nearest station is Monument (Circle, District), and two movers as standard, three where a Victorian stair turn, a heavy item or a tight completion-day schedule makes the extra pair of hands worth the hourly cost.