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Temple, London

Selling your Temple flat or house directly

We are LDN Properties, a direct cash buyer for Temple homeowners with property across the EC4Y, SW1A and SW1Y postcode area. We are typically happy to consider properties regardless of lease length, condition, share of freehold 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 Temple property, please call 020 7183 3022 or request a no-obligation offer online.

Temple is unusual within central London for its very small residential stock; the area is dominated by the chambers and ancient buildings of the Inner Temple and Middle Temple Inns of Court, with most residential accommodation taking the form of barristers’ chambers and a small number of conversion flats around the Temple precinct, the Royal Courts of Justice fringe along Carey Street, and the upper floors of the surrounding Strand and Fleet Street commercial buildings. We are typically able to make a competitive offer whether the property is a chambers flat held under a private licence, a long-leasehold conversion above commercial use, or a share-of-freehold apartment in one of the smaller mansion blocks.

Reasons homeowners consider a direct cash sale

We have been buying property directly across London since 2003. A few common situations tend to lead homeowners towards a direct cash sale rather than the open market.

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 Temple property market

The property landscape in Temple is shaped almost entirely by its history as the seat of two of the four English Inns of Court, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, which have occupied the precinct since the late thirteenth century after acquiring the site from the Knights Templar following the order’s suppression in 1312. The defining building stock comprises the chambers buildings around King’s Bench Walk, Pump Court, Hare Court, Fountain Court, Brick Court and Middle Temple Lane, together with the Grade I listed Temple Church consecrated in 1185, Middle Temple Hall built in the 1570s, and the post-war rebuilding that followed the substantial bomb damage of the Second World War. A small number of conversion flats sit around the Strand fringe and on Carey Street.

Recent Land Registry transactions across the EC4Y, WC2R and WC2A postcodes are limited by the small residential market, but typically show studio and one-bedroom conversion flats trading between £500,000 and £825,000, two-bedroom flats commonly between £825,000 and £1.4 million, and the rare lateral apartments in the prime mansion blocks generally trading well above £2 million when they come to market. Most chambers buildings within the Temple precinct are held by the two Inns under historic freehold or long-leasehold arrangements that effectively preclude open-market residential sale. Our guide to selling a short lease flat covers the marriage-value issue in detail.

Transport links and local amenities

Temple is served by Temple tube station on the Victoria Embankment, located in Travelcard Zone 1 on the Circle and District lines, with trains running to Westminster in around three minutes and to Bank in approximately five minutes. Blackfriars station to the east offers the Circle and District lines together with Thameslink main-line services to Brighton, Bedford and Gatwick Airport, and Chancery Lane station on the Central line lies a short walk to the north. Charing Cross to the west provides additional Bakerloo and Northern line services together with South Eastern main-line trains.

Local bus routes through the area include the 4, 11, 15, 23, 26, 76 and 172, providing connections towards St Paul’s, Liverpool Street and Trafalgar Square. Major local landmarks include the Grade I listed Temple Church, the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand immediately to the north, the Inner Temple and Middle Temple gardens running down to the river, Middle Temple Hall where Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was first performed in 1602, and the riverside walks along the Victoria Embankment.

About Temple

Temple is a small central London neighbourhood in the London Borough of Westminster, situated within the EC4Y postcode at the eastern edge of the borough and bounded by Fleet Street to the north, the City of London boundary to the east, the River Thames to the south, and Arundel Street and the Strand fringe to the west. The area takes its name from the Knights Templar, the medieval military order that acquired the site in the 1160s and consecrated the round Temple Church in 1185 on the model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Following the suppression of the Knights Templar by Pope Clement V in 1312, the precinct passed to the Knights Hospitaller and was later let to two professional associations of lawyers who became the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, two of the four English Inns of Court that retain the exclusive right to call barristers to the Bar of England and Wales. The Temple precinct functions as a liberty independent of the surrounding boroughs, with its own elected officers and a position outside the formal local-government structure of the City of London or the City of Westminster. Most of the area falls within the Whitefriars and Temple Conservation Area, and many buildings carry Grade I or Grade II listed status. Holborn and Aldwych sit immediately to the north, and Charing Cross further to the west.