Guaranteed rent and full property management for landlords across SE6 · SE13 · SE23. A fixed monthly figure on terms from two to five years, or a managed tenancy run to a corporate standard, with a free annual gas safety certificate on every managed property. Your figures come back within 24 hours.
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Lewisham is where a great deal of London's renting actually happens: an enormous stock of Victorian terraces and conversions, connected by the DLR, mainline services into London Bridge and Cannon Street, and the Overground at Forest Hill. Catford, Lewisham centre and Forest Hill each pull slightly different tenants, from young families to City commuters, and together they make one of the most dependable demand bases south of the river.
The borough has also carried one of London's heavier temporary accommodation burdens for years, and regeneration around Lewisham Gateway has added new rental stock without denting the underlying shortage. For landlords the picture is straightforward: this is a borough that needs your property, privately and publicly, and will keep needing it.
Lewisham's appeal to owners is straightforward: some of the most sensible entry money left this close to the centre, rents underpinned by genuine breadth of demand, and a borough whose direction, from the Gateway works outward, still points upward. Yields here reward owners who take the market seriously rather than assuming value boroughs run themselves.
The Lewisham workhorse is the three bedroom Victorian terrace, and SE6, SE13 and SE23 are full of them. They let to families and sharers with equal ease and they are the core of what our council partnerships require. Conversion flats across the borough serve couples and single professionals, with Forest Hill's stock commanding a premium for its Overground link and village feel.
We manage the full spread, and the operating truth is consistent: houses barely pause between tenancies when marketed properly, while flats reward precise pricing against plentiful comparables. Larger houses near the hospital and the stations can work as licensed shares, which we assess honestly case by case.
The Victorian terrace is the borough's engine, and its condition tiers are the market's real segments: the renovated house competes for professionals and families at strong figures, the honest but dated one earns solidly with practical households, and placements want both. Conversion flats around the stations complete the book, with Forest Hill's stock earning its Overground premium.
Lewisham rents to the broad middle of working London: young families taking their first houses, professionals riding the DLR and mainline into town, sharers around the stations, and long settled households across Catford and Hither Green. Goldsmiths and the hospitals add their own steady stream.
Placement demand for family housing runs heavy in this borough, which is precisely what makes our fixed offers on SE6 and SE13 houses so dependable. Whatever the season, something substantial wants a decent Lewisham terrace.
A rent figure is only as good as the evidence behind it, so we do not pluck one from a portal average. We start with what comparable properties across SE6 · SE13 · SE23 have actually let for in recent months, not what they were advertised at, because the gap between the two is where landlords lose money. We then weigh the specifics that portals cannot see: the condition of the kitchen and bathrooms, the presentation, the EPC rating, the outside space, the exact walk to the station and which tenant profile the property naturally suits.
That produces two numbers rather than one. The first is the open market figure a managed tenancy should achieve in Lewisham with proper marketing and referencing behind it. The second, where the property qualifies, is the fixed figure we can commit to on a two to five year term. Seeing both side by side is the point: you choose with real numbers on the table, and if the property would earn more with modest works, we say so and quantify it rather than listing it as it stands.
Ask a Lewisham landlord what their worst year looked like and the answer is rarely about repairs; it is almost always about weeks of emptiness between tenancies. The arithmetic is unforgiving: at £2,000 a month, every empty week is roughly £460 gone, and the bills continue regardless. Our approach across SE6 · SE13 · SE23 is to attack the gap from both ends. Renewal conversations start months before expiry, so a leaving tenant is a planned event rather than a surprise. Marketing, referencing and check-in are sequenced so the next tenancy starts as close as possible to the day the last one ends. And for landlords who would rather not think about occupancy at all, the fixed route pays the same figure every month, tenant or no tenant. The full arithmetic is in our piece on what an empty week really costs.
Most Lewisham owners weigh a managed tenancy against a fixed figure, and the case for each is clear cut here. Managed lets capture a market that has tightened year after year. Guaranteed rent turns a terrace into a two to five year fixed income with no voids, no arrears and no management, backed by public sector demand this borough demonstrably has.
Because Lewisham demand is so broad, our fixed offers sit close to achievable market rents, making the certainty inexpensive. Portfolio owners often split their holdings between the two models, and we run both sides of that split under one roof, which no conventional agency can do.
Lewisham's housing need keeps the public sector side of this market permanently active, and our council facing relationships across South East London stand directly behind the guaranteed rent commitments we make here. When we fix a figure on an SE6, SE13 or SE23 house, contracted demand exists for it before we sign.
You receive the same payment every month for the full term, occupied or not. We carry the management, the compliance and the condition obligations, and the property returns to you as contracted. It is the simplest arrangement in property, and in boroughs like this one it is also among the most sensible.
Managed Lewisham properties receive the complete service: marketing, accompanied viewings, full referencing and right to rent checks, compliant tenancy paperwork, deposit protection, rent collection with structured arrears follow up, maintenance through trusted local trades, quarterly written inspections and renewals negotiated against live borough evidence.
Every property under our management scheme includes a free annual gas safety certificate, arranged and completed before the old one expires, with electrical certification, EPC deadlines and any licensing requirements tracked alongside it. The compliance file on your property stays complete without a single reminder needed from you.
Step one, inside a day: your figures, both routes, no obligation. Step two, inside a week: the property visited, compliance audited, certificates and licensing squared for the exact address. Step three: your decision, managed or fixed, made with real numbers rather than promises.
Step four runs to the end of the month: marketing and viewings on the managed route with referencing as applications land, or the company let signed and dated on the fixed route. However the month ends, the outcome in Lewisham is the same: a property earning properly, papered exactly, with one firm accountable for all of it.
Onboarding runs to a checklist, not a mood. Day one we confirm the address, the mortgage consent position and the licensing requirement. Inside the first week the property is inspected, the certificates are verified or booked, and either marketing or the fixed contract is in motion. If a tenant is in place, they get a proper introduction, our contact details and a working repairs line from the first day.
You will be asked for surprisingly little: identification, proof of ownership, the existing tenancy file if there is one, and bank details for the rent. Everything else, from certificates to licence applications, is work we take on rather than homework we hand back to you.
Lewisham operates licensing requirements in parts of the borough and the Renters' Rights Act 2026 now governs every tenancy in it. The penalty ceiling of £40,000 per failure makes informal paperwork a risk no landlord should carry. On our managed book, nobody does.
Lewisham is exactly the kind of borough our model was built for: deep private demand for the flats, contracted public need for the houses, and a compliance environment that rewards professional systems. We would like to show you what your SE postcode should be earning. The appraisal is free and comes back within 24 hours.
Nearby, we also cover Southwark, Croydon, Lambeth, and the full list of our London and Surrey areas is on the areas we cover page.
We assess your Lewisham property against local demand, council criteria and our existing tenant pipeline.
Within 24 hours you receive a managed rent estimate and, where the property qualifies, a fixed guaranteed figure on a two to five year term.
Managed tenancy or fixed income. We set it up, handle the paperwork and place the tenants.
Collection, maintenance, inspections and compliance all handled, with your free annual gas safety certificate included.
A free, no obligation appraisal within 24 hours: your managed rent estimate and, where the property qualifies, a fixed guaranteed figure on a two to five year term.
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