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Selling your Borough home to LDN Properties

When you are looking to sell your Borough property directly, LDN Properties is typically happy to make a cash offer on flats and houses across the SE1, SE11 and SE15 postcode area, regardless of lease length, condition, share of freehold or cladding status. There are no agency fees and no chain in our process, and we usually need only one in-person visit before putting forward our final offer.

We have been buying property directly across London since 2003 and are members of The Property Ombudsman (membership D12463), which provides independent oversight of our quick property buying service. You can read more about how our buying process works, the typical timings for a direct sale and the costs involved when selling directly compared with using an estate agent or auction. To discuss your Borough property, please call 020 7183 3022 or request a no-obligation offer online.

When selling directly is the cleaner option

LDN Properties has been buying houses and flats directly across London since 2003. Several situations tend to come up regularly when homeowners look at a direct cash sale as an alternative to the open market.

Properties that need significant work are one of the more common reasons homeowners look at a direct sale. Estate agents typically advise spending on repairs and presentation before listing — a route that can run to tens of thousands of pounds and several months — and many sellers would prefer to sell the property as it stands. We are typically happy to consider properties in their current condition, including those with structural issues, damp, dated services or significant cosmetic work outstanding.

Problem properties sit in a similar bracket: non-standard construction, cladding under review, lapsed planning, boundary disputes or other issues that tend to put off open-market buyers and their mortgage lenders. We are typically happy to consider these alongside straightforward stock.

Personal circumstances make up the balance of the reasons we hear — probate, divorce, relocation, financial difficulty, downsizing and ill-health. Flats with shorter leases also come up regularly, particularly where a formal extension would be expensive; our short-lease guide covers that situation in more detail.

The Borough property market

The property landscape in Borough is mixed, reflecting waves of development from the medieval period onward around the southern end of London Bridge. Surviving Georgian and early Victorian terraces along Trinity Street, Falmouth Road and the streets around the Trinity Conservation Area sit alongside late-Victorian mansion blocks, post-war council estates including parts of the Tabard Garden Estate, and modern apartment schemes around Borough High Street, Newcomen Street and the redeveloped Bankside-Borough corridor. The area around Guy’s Hospital has seen substantial recent redevelopment, with the Shard, Quill and other tall residential schemes adding modern flat stock close to London Bridge.

This mix of building types brings several considerations that are worth understanding when selling. Leases on Georgian and early Victorian converted flats can be sitting between 60 and 95 years remaining, and anything below 80 years brings the property into marriage value territory. Section 20 major works notices are common on the larger blocks around Tabard Street and Long Lane, and EWS1 cladding requirements apply to several of the newer high-rise schemes near London Bridge. Parts of central Borough fall within the Borough High Street and Trinity Conservation Areas, which limit external alterations. Our guide to selling a short lease flat sets out the options in detail.

Recent Land Registry transactions across the SE1 postcode in Borough typically show studio flats clearing between £375,000 and £500,000, one-bedroom flats between £475,000 and £675,000 depending on aspect and floor, two-bedroom flats commonly between £700,000 and £1.1 million, and larger Georgian houses in the Trinity Square area generally trading between £1.5 million and £2.5 million when they come to market.

Transport links and local amenities

Borough is served by Borough tube station on the Northern line, located in Travelcard Zone 1. Trains run to Bank in approximately three minutes via the Bank branch and to London Bridge in around one minute. London Bridge mainline station a short walk to the north sits on both the Northern and Jubilee lines, and offers extensive National Rail connections towards Kent, Sussex and south-east London. Elephant and Castle on the Bakerloo and Northern lines lies a short distance to the south.

Local bus routes through the area include the 21, 35, 40, 43, 133, 141, 343, 388, 521 and the night N21, N35, N133, N343 and N381, providing further connections across central and south London. Borough Market on Stoney Street is a major local landmark and has operated as a food market on its current site for several centuries, while Southwark Cathedral, Guy’s Hospital and the southern end of London Bridge form the principal institutional and historic anchors of the area.

About Borough

Borough is a central London neighbourhood in the borough of Southwark, situated within the SE1 postcode at the southern end of London Bridge, between Bermondsey to the east, Newington and Elephant and Castle to the south, and the Bankside riverside quarter to the west. The name originates from the medieval status of Southwark as the only borough outside the boundaries of the City of London, and the area has been settled continuously since the Roman period as the southern approach to London Bridge.

Borough High Street has functioned as a coaching and market thoroughfare for many centuries, and the surviving George Inn on Borough High Street, owned by the National Trust, is the last galleried coaching inn in London. Parts of central Borough fall within the Borough High Street Conservation Area and the Trinity Conservation Area designated by Southwark Council, both of which place restrictions on external alterations, window replacements and roof additions. Many individual buildings carry Grade I or Grade II listed status under Historic England, including Southwark Cathedral and the Hop Exchange on Southwark Street. The market quarter around Borough Market, the medieval cathedral precinct and the proximity to London Bridge and the Shard give the area its distinctive contemporary character.

Properties we buy in and around Borough

As professional home buyers in and around Borough we have purchased all kinds of property ranging from houses through to flats and commercial, here are examples of what we often see:

• Derelict property
• Houses
• Flats and apartments
• Purpose built flat
• Semi detached
• Ex local authority flats
• End terrace properties
• Commercial property
• Townhouse
• Detached house
• Bungalows