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Property Refurbishment
Landlord, investor and commercial refurbishment to a deadline.
Property Refurbishment in London
For clients where every week the property is empty is a week it is costing money.
Refurbishment for a landlord, an investor or a business owner is a different job from a family renovation, even when the physical work looks similar. The controlling factor is not taste — it is the date the property has to be let, sold or trading, and the point at which further spend stops improving the return.
We work with landlords, portfolio investors, managing agents and commercial occupiers across London on void turnarounds, HMO conversions and compliance upgrades, pre-sale refurbishment and shop, office and restaurant fit-out. Fixed scope, fixed programme, and honest advice about which items will actually change the rent or the sale price and which will not.
Process
How your property refurbishment project runs
Five stages, each with a defined output, so you always know where the job is and what happens next.
Consultation
We sit down with you and your planning representatives to turn a rough idea into a defined brief — what is possible, what it is likely to cost, and what the realistic programme looks like.
Survey
A full measured survey of the property. We check structure, services, drainage, party wall implications and access before a single figure goes on paper.
Design
We collaborate with your architect, structural engineer and consultants through drawings, building regulations and planning so the design is buildable as well as beautiful.
Build
Qualified, directly-employed craftspeople on site to an agreed programme, with a single point of contact, weekly progress updates and a clean, protected site throughout.
Completion
Snagging walked with you room by room, certificates and guarantees handed over, building control sign-off, and a site left cleaner than we found it.
Options
Who we do this for
Residential investment and commercial occupiers.
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01Void turnaround
FastBetween tenancies, on a fixed timetable: decoration, flooring, kitchen and bathroom refresh, compliance testing and a clean handover.
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02HMO conversion and licensing works
ComplianceFire door sets, interlinked detection to the required grade, protected escape routes, room sizes and amenity standards for licensing.
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03Buy-to-let upgrade
InvestorsBringing a tired property up to a lettable standard, including the insulation and heating measures that affect the EPC rating.
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04Pre-sale refurbishment
VendorsTargeted work before marketing, concentrated on the items that affect a valuation and a survey rather than on everything at once.
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05Commercial fit-out
BusinessOffices, studios, salons, restaurants and retail units — partitions, services, finishes and the coordination with your landlord's licence to alter.
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06Portfolio maintenance
OngoingPlanned and reactive works across multiple properties for landlords and managing agents, with consistent specification and one point of contact.
What you get
How we approach it
Programme-led
A dated programme with the handover date fixed at the start, and trades sequenced to hit it rather than to suit their own diaries.
Compliance bundled
EICR, gas safety, fire detection, fire doors and emergency lighting delivered and certified together, ready for a licensing inspection.
Specified for wear
Finishes chosen for tenanted use — durable flooring, washable coatings, robust ironmongery — so the property does not need the same work again in two years.
Spend where it returns
We will tell you when a kitchen needs replacing and when it needs doors, worktops and a deep clean at a fifth of the cost.
Before you start
Regulatory items landlords should plan for
The items below are where projects most often stall. We raise them at survey stage, not halfway through.
Electrical safety
A satisfactory EICR is required at least every five years for rented property in England, with remedial work completed within 28 days of the report.
Energy efficiency
Minimum EPC standards continue to tighten. Insulation, heating controls and glazing are the measures that move the rating, and they are cheapest to install during a refurbishment.
Fire safety in HMOs
Detection grade and category, fire door specification, protected routes and emergency lighting all follow from the licensing authority's standard for your borough — which varies between London councils.
Licence to alter
Leasehold flats and commercial units almost always need the freeholder's formal consent before structural or service alterations. Start it early; it is slow.
Where we work
Property Refurbishment across London
We deliver this service across all 33 London boroughs. Pick your area for local planning context, typical property types and recent work nearby.
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Property Refurbishment — your questions answered
The questions we are asked most often about this service. If yours is not here, call us — we would rather answer it now than after you have committed.
A decoration and compliance refresh on a two-bedroom flat can be done inside two weeks. A full refurbishment including kitchen and bathroom is typically four to six. We commit to a date before we start.
Regularly. We can deal with the agent directly, work to their specification and reporting requirements, and invoice against agreed stages.
Yes, and it is one of the more useful things we do. We will walk the property with you and separate the work that will change the rent or the sale price from the work that only makes it nicer.
We carry out the physical works to the standard your borough requires and provide the certification. The licence application itself stays with you or your agent, but we make sure the property passes inspection.
Free quotation
Thinking about property refurbishment?
Let us take a look.
Tell us what you are planning and we will arrange a free site survey and a written, itemised quotation — with no obligation and no sales visit.