Property management in Waltham Forest, London

2 bed rent

£1,930 a month

3 bed rent

£2,510 a month

Typical sale price

£571,550

Gross yield

6.7%

Read around E17. Rents are advertised rents; the sale price is the average of completed sales in the last twelve months.

Waltham Forest is an outer north-east London borough where rents sit below the London average, though Walthamstow in particular has seen growing interest as tenants and buyers have looked beyond neighbouring Hackney. The borough also includes Chingford and Leyton, each with its own character.

Victorian terraces dominate much of Walthamstow and Leyton, giving the borough a housing stock similar in character to parts of Hackney, while Chingford further north has more suburban semi-detached housing and larger gardens, bordering Epping Forest and offering a quieter, greener setting than the streets closer to central London.

Walthamstow Central and Leyton stations sit on the Victoria line, giving direct access into the West End and the City, while Chingford has its own mainline service into Liverpool Street, so tenants include young professionals and families in Walthamstow and Leyton, and a more suburban family population in Chingford who value the proximity to the forest and its open space.

For a landlord, the direct Victoria line link has made Walthamstow and Leyton increasingly attractive to tenants who work in central London but are looking for more space than they could get closer in, and this has broadened the pool of interest across the borough, supporting demand for both flats and terraced houses. Walthamstow Village, with its older cottages and independent shops, has become a particular draw for tenants seeking a more distinctive setting than the borough's more standard Victorian terraces.

Epping Forest, bordering Chingford, is one of the largest areas of ancient woodland in London and gives the borough a genuinely rural edge that is unusual so close to the city, while the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow adds a well known cultural landmark to the town centre.

• Rent collected and paid to you within 3 working days of your tenant paying
• Your rent held in a ring-fenced client account, separate from Caso's own money, until it is paid to you
• Tenant calls and messages answered 24 hours a day, every day
• Repairs assessed, priced and arranged for you, charged at the contractor's invoice with no markup
• A monthly statement for each property, with every invoice attached, in your portal
• Late rent chased from the first day it is overdue, with a dated record
• Tenancy agreement drawn up and signed online
• Renewals, changes of tenant and legal notices prepared and served
• Rent reviewed every year and the Section 13 rent increase notice served for you
• Deposit protected with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme within 30 days, and the deposit paperwork the law requires served on your tenant
• Deposit deductions agreed and the deposit returned at the end of the tenancy
• Gas safety, electrical safety and energy certificates renewed before they expire, at cost
• Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms checked and recorded
• Council landlord licence applied for where your area needs one, and its renewal date tracked
• Optional: rent guarantee at cost, with no markup. You are paid even when the tenant does not pay.

Selective or HMO licence (council licence). Waltham Forest Council runs a selective licensing scheme across most of the borough, so most privately rented homes here need a council licence. We check the register against your exact address before the first tenancy.