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Cash sale of a Fitzrovia flat or house

If you are considering a direct sale of your Fitzrovia property, LDN Properties is typically happy to make a cash offer on flats and houses across the NW1, SW1Y and W1F 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 Fitzrovia 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.

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 Fitzrovia property market

The property landscape in Fitzrovia is shaped by the eighteenth-century Fitzroy estate development around Fitzroy Square, by the surrounding Georgian and early-Victorian terraces along Charlotte Street, Great Titchfield Street, Goodge Street and Cleveland Street, and by a substantial stock of late-Victorian and Edwardian mansion blocks. Twentieth-century commercial buildings cluster around the Tottenham Court Road frontage and at the foot of the BT Tower. Many of the original Georgian terraces have been converted into flats over the past century, sitting alongside the surviving single-family town houses around Fitzroy Square itself.

Recent Land Registry transactions across the W1T and W1W postcodes typically show studio flats trading between £425,000 and £600,000, one-bedroom flats between £625,000 and £925,000 depending on floor and aspect, two-bedroom flats commonly between £975,000 and £1.7 million, and larger terraced houses generally trading above £3 million when they come to market on Fitzroy Square or Charlotte Street. Lease length and listed status influence pricing materially. Many of the post-war leases granted on Georgian conversions and mansion-block flats 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.

Transport links and local amenities

Fitzrovia is served by Goodge Street station on the Northern line at the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Tottenham Street, located in Travelcard Zone 1. Trains run to Warren Street in around one minute and to Tottenham Court Road in around one minute. Tottenham Court Road station to the south-east is served by the Central, Northern and Elizabeth lines, providing fast cross-London journeys to Paddington in around eight minutes and to Canary Wharf in around fourteen minutes. Warren Street and Great Portland Street to the north on the Victoria, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines lie within a short walk.

Local bus routes along Tottenham Court Road, Gower Street and Great Portland Street include the 14, 24, 29, 73, 88, 134, 390 and N5, giving extensive connections across central London. The BT Tower on Cleveland Street, the Pollock's Toy Museum on Scala Street, the Fitzroy Tavern on Charlotte Street and the Sanderson Hotel on Berners Street are the immediate landmarks. University College Hospital on Euston Road and the central buildings of UCL on Gower Street are a short walk to the east.

About Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia is a central London neighbourhood that straddles the boundary between the borough of Westminster and the borough of Camden, situated within the W1T and W1W postcodes between Oxford Street to the south, Euston Road to the north, Great Portland Street to the west and Tottenham Court Road to the east, bordering Marylebone to the west and Bloomsbury to the east. The name was popularised in the 1930s and derives from the Fitzroy Tavern on Charlotte Street and the Fitzroy estate that developed the area around Fitzroy Square in the late eighteenth century. Fitzroy Square itself was laid out by Robert and James Adam from 1790, with the eastern and southern sides completed in the 1820s and 1830s.

Most of the area sits within the Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, Bedford and Hanway Street Conservation Areas, all designated by Westminster City Council and Camden Council respectively. Many individual buildings carry Grade I, Grade II* or Grade II listed status under Historic England, including the Adam-designed terraces around Fitzroy Square and the BT Tower itself, which was listed Grade II in 2003. Listed status can require formal listed-building consent for internal works affecting historic fabric, and Article 4 directions apply in parts of the area, removing some permitted development rights. The area has a long association with writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Dylan Thomas, all of whom lived or drank locally.