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Cash sale of a Aldwych flat or house

If you are considering a direct sale of your Aldwych property, LDN Properties is typically happy to make a cash offer on flats and houses across the EC1M, EC4V and EC4Y 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 Aldwych property, please call 020 7183 3022 or request a no-obligation offer online.

Situations behind a direct sale

A direct cash sale through LDN Properties is often a practical alternative to the open market. We have been buying property directly across London since 2003 and there are a handful of situations that come up regularly.

Relocation for work is one of the situations that brings homeowners to us most regularly, particularly for owners moving abroad or starting a new role with a fixed date. Marketing a London flat or house remotely through an estate agent is rarely straightforward — chain delays and last-minute renegotiation can leave sellers tied to the property long after the move — and a direct sale removes that uncertainty. We are typically happy to agree a fixed completion date, which lets owners line up the sale with the start of the next role.

Divorce and financial difficulty sit in the same bracket: situations where the certainty of a known completion date carries more weight than holding out for an open-market premium. A sale that has fallen through creates a similar pressure, particularly where an onward purchase has already been committed to.

Other reasons we hear from homeowners include probate, downsizing in retirement, ill-health, properties that need repairs, and leasehold flats with shorter leases. The common thread is usually a need to complete on a known timeline.

The Aldwych property market

The property landscape across the Aldwych crescent and the surrounding streets between Kingsway and the Strand is dominated by early twentieth-century commercial buildings, with residential flats sitting above ground-floor retail along Catherine Street, Drury Lane and Wellington Street, and a small number of larger conversion blocks around Surrey Street and Arundel Street. The Aldwych itself was laid out as a crescent between 1900 and 1905 as part of the Kingsway scheme, sweeping away the older Wych Street, so much of the residential stock dates from Edwardian and inter-war redevelopment rather than the Georgian period.

Recent Land Registry transactions across the WC2B and WC2E postcodes typically show studio flats trading between £400,000 and £575,000, one-bedroom flats between £600,000 and £875,000 depending on floor and aspect, and two-bedroom flats commonly between £950,000 and £1.5 million. Lease length and service charge level have a material effect on pricing, and many of the inter-war and post-war mansion-block leases are now sitting between 60 and 95 years remaining, with anything below 80 years bringing the property into marriage value territory. Our guide to selling a short lease flat sets out the options in detail. Section 20 major works notices and EWS1 cladding requirements can also surface on the larger blocks during the conveyancing process.

Transport links and local amenities

Aldwych is served by Temple station on the Circle and District lines to the south, and by Covent Garden station on the Piccadilly line a short walk to the north-west. Holborn station on the Piccadilly and Central lines lies around six minutes on foot to the north, and Charing Cross combining National Rail with the Bakerloo and Northern line tube platforms is around twelve minutes to the west. The disused Aldwych tube station on the Strand, closed to passengers in 1994, remains a well-known local landmark.

Local bus routes through the Strand and Kingsway include the 1, 4, 11, 15, 26, 59, 68, 76, 91, 168, 171, 172, 188, 243 and 521, giving extensive connections across central London. The Royal Courts of Justice and Australia House sit on the Strand frontage, the Novello Theatre and Aldwych Theatre face one another on the crescent, and the Strand Campus of King's College London occupies the southern edge of the area. Somerset House lies a short walk to the east on the Strand.

About Aldwych

Aldwych is a central London neighbourhood in the borough of Westminster, situated within the WC2B and WC2E postcodes around the crescent of the same name, between Covent Garden to the north-west, Holborn to the north and the City of London boundary to the east. The name derives from the Old English Aldwic, meaning old settlement, and refers to the Anglo-Saxon trading town of Lundenwic that occupied this stretch of the riverbank between the seventh and ninth centuries. The modern crescent was laid out between 1900 and 1905 as part of the Kingsway improvement, which cleared the older streets of Wych Street and Holywell Street to create the present curved thoroughfare.

Parts of the area sit within the Strand Conservation Area and a number of the early twentieth-century buildings along the crescent carry Grade II or Grade II* listed status under Historic England, including Bush House, India House and Australia House. The Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand frontage are Grade I listed. Listed status can require formal listed-building consent for internal works affecting historic fabric. The Strand Campus of King's College London, the Aldwych Theatre and the Novello Theatre are long-established local institutions, and the area sits immediately adjacent to the legal quarter of the Inns of Court.

Properties we buy in Aldwych

As professional property buyers in and around Aldwych we have purchased all kinds of property ranging from houses through to flats and garages, here are some examples of what we often come across: