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Kennington, London

A direct cash sale of your Kennington property

Here at LDN Properties we make direct cash offers on Kennington flats and houses across the local postcode area, and we are typically happy to consider properties regardless of the remaining lease length, the condition of the property, share of freehold position or current cladding status. Selling directly through us removes the chain and the open-market viewings, with no agency fees and usually only one in-person visit needed before we put 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 Kennington property, please call 020 7183 3022 or request a no-obligation offer online.

Why homeowners contact LDN Properties for a direct sale

There are a handful of situations where a direct cash sale tends to make more sense than the open market. LDN Properties has been buying houses and flats directly across London since 2003.

Probate sales are one of the situations we deal with most regularly. Where a flat or house has been in family ownership for many years and the inheritors are based outside London, the practical demands of preparing the property for the open market — clearance, repairs, viewings, chain coordination — can be slow and expensive to manage at distance. A direct cash sale removes those demands and provides a fixed completion date for the executors and beneficiaries.

Other reasons bring sellers to us in similar numbers. Divorce, relocation for work, financial difficulty, downsizing and ill-health all involve circumstances where a known completion date carries more weight than chasing the top of the open market. Landlords exiting buy-to-let, particularly where there is a sitting tenant in place, is another common reason.

Properties that need refurbishment and flats with shorter leases also come up regularly. In both cases the open market tends to discount the price heavily, and a direct sale can be the cleaner option; our short-lease guide covers the lease situation in more detail.

The Kennington property market

The Kennington property landscape is shaped by its long history of estate development, with the Duchy of Cornwall having held substantial land in the area since the fourteenth century and continuing to manage a sizable freehold estate. Streets such as Kennington Road, Cleaver Square, Courtenay Street, Cardigan Street and Kennington Park Road carry surviving Georgian terraces of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, alongside more substantial mid- and late-Victorian terraces and mansion blocks. The post-war period brought significant estate housing including parts of the Brandon Estate and other LCC and GLC blocks, and more recent decades have seen large purpose-built apartment schemes around Vauxhall and Oval. The Kennington Conservation Area covers a substantial part of central Kennington.

Land Registry transactions across the SE11, SE17 and SW8 postcodes typically show one-bedroom flats clearing between £425,000 and £575,000 depending on aspect, floor and lease length, two-bedroom flats commonly trading between £575,000 and £825,000, and three- and four-bedroom terraced houses generally falling between £1.1 million and £1.8 million when in reasonable order. Larger Georgian houses on Cleaver Square or on the Duchy estate can trade above £2 million. Lease length is a common variable on converted flats and on Duchy of Cornwall leasehold property, with leases granted in the 1980s and 1990s now often sitting between 65 and 90 years remaining.

Transport links and local amenities

Kennington is served by Kennington tube station on the Northern line, in Travelcard Zone 1 and 2, where the line splits between the Battersea Power Station branch via Nine Elms and the Bank branch via Borough. Trains run northbound to Waterloo in approximately four minutes and to Bank in around eight minutes. Oval station to the south on the Northern line and Lambeth North station to the north on the Bakerloo line are within walking distance, and Vauxhall station combines Victoria line, National Rail and bus services nearby. Bus routes through the area include the 3, 12, 53, 59, 133, 148, 159, 333, 360, 415 and 453.

Kennington Park, a Grade II registered historic park of approximately thirty-six acres, lies on the southern edge of the area. The Oval cricket ground (Kia Oval) sits a short distance to the south-west. The Imperial War Museum on Lambeth Road, housed in the former Bethlem Royal Hospital building, is a major local landmark, and the Cinema Museum on Dugard Way is also notable.

About Kennington

Kennington is a south London district within the borough of Lambeth, situated primarily within the SE11 postcode with parts extending into SE1, SE17, SW8 and SW9, between Lambeth to the north, Vauxhall to the west, Oval to the south and the Elephant and Castle and Walworth areas of Southwark to the east. The name is recorded from at least the eleventh century, and the area has been part of the Duchy of Cornwall’s estate since the Duchy’s creation by Edward III in 1337. Substantial residential development began in the late eighteenth century with the laying out of streets such as Kennington Road, Cleaver Square (begun in 1789) and Kennington Park Road, with intensive Victorian expansion following the arrival of the railway and the Northern line in the early twentieth century.

The Kennington Conservation Area covers a substantial part of central Kennington and is one of several conservation areas in the borough. The Duchy of Cornwall retains a significant freehold estate across the area, with many properties held on long leases granted by the Duchy. Individual buildings including St Mark’s Church on Kennington Park Road (Grade II*), the Beefeater Distillery on Montford Place (Grade II) and large parts of the Cleaver Square terraces carry listed status. The conservation designation places restrictions on external alterations, and listed-building consent is required for works affecting historic fabric.