Guaranteed rent in Chessington
Guaranteed rent in Chessington means VividSpaces leases your property for three to five years and pays a fixed rent on the same date every month, occupied or not.
No fees, no void months · KT9, KT6, KT5 covered · Three to five year agreements
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Guaranteed rent for landlords in Chessington
Chessington is the southern tip of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, a KT9 district where suburban streets give way to green belt and, along the A243, Chessington World of Adventures. Most homes are inter-war and post-war houses with gardens, built along the branch line from Waterloo.
VividSpaces leases Chessington homes on a three to five year company let and pays the agreed rent on one date each month, occupied or not. The figure is set before you sign, at or above market rent. From then on the family, the repairs and the inspections are ours to deal with.
What Chessington landlords get
- Your KT9 house paid for monthly, whether a family is in or not
- Semis, terraces and bungalows with gardens considered
- Every repair, check and occupant query handled by us
- No management fee deducted from your monthly payment
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, September 2026
What does a rental property in Chessington earn?
The Office for National Statistics puts the average private rent in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames at £1,821 a month, against £2,338 across London as a whole.
| Home size | Average rent a month |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £1,386 |
| Two bedrooms | £1,765 |
| Three bedrooms | £2,167 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £2,852 |
Source: ONS, Housing prices in Kingston upon Thames, September 2026.
These are borough averages, not an offer. The figure we pay for your Chessington home is set after we have seen it, at or above what it would fetch on the open market, and it is fixed in writing for the term of the lease.
You keep the whole amount. There is no management fee, no letting fee, and no empty month taken out of it.
Do you need a licence to let a property in Chessington?
Most Chessington landlords will not need one. Chessington is in Kingston, which ties licensing to houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), not to homes let to a single family.
What applies, and to whom
- Kingston requires a licence where five or more people from two or more households share facilities.
- Kingston's landlord page does not list fees or any wider scheme. For those details, check with Kingston's licensing team.
- A house let to one family is not an HMO. We let each Chessington home to one small family, with VividSpaces on the lease, and confirm the position with you before you sign.
Source: Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, property licensing. Schemes change, so confirm the current position with Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames before you let.
What a year of rent looks like for a Chessington landlord
Take a home that would let for £1,900* a month on the open market. Let the usual way, a normal year brings a management fee every month, a tenancy that ends, two empty months, a re-let fee, a repair bill and a late payment. Under a VividSpaces lease the same home pays £1,900* on the same date, twelve times.
| Let the usual wayfees, two empty months, a re-let fee, a repair, one late payment | £16,210 |
|---|---|
| Under a VividSpaces leasetwelve identical payments, on the agreed date | £22,800 |
| Difference over the year | £6,590 |
Since we started, 100% of rents have been paid on time. You can check who you are dealing with before you speak to us: VividSpaces Ltd is on the ICO register (ZB892725), a member of the Property Redress Scheme (PRS051867) and registered at Companies House (16100586).
* Illustration only, not a quote and not an offer. Assumes open-market rent £1,900/month, 10% management fee, two void months, £550 re-let fee, £340 repair bill, one late payment. The rent for your Chessington property is agreed in writing after we have seen it, before you sign anything.
If the property is empty, how are you still paying me?
Because the rent does not depend on who is living there. VividSpaces is the tenant on your lease, which is a company let, so the obligation to pay you is ours for the whole term, whether the home is occupied or between families.
Local authorities
Refer families who need a settled, long-term home and vet them before referral.
VividSpaces
Holds a three to five year lease with our company named on it, and places the family.
You
Paid a fixed rent on the same date every month for the whole term, agreed in writing before you sign.
The Chessington rental market
Hook and Chessington were largely built out in the 1930s, as the railway arrived, so most of the rental market is family houses with gardens rather than flats. The green belt starts at the southern edge of KT9, and both stations have a direct line to Waterloo.
Homes we take on here
Semis, short terraces and bungalows with gardens across Hook and Chessington, flats near the two stations and along Hook Road, and family houses towards Moor Lane and Malden Rushett.
Chessington North and Chessington South stations sit at the end of the branch through Tolworth and Malden Manor, with South Western Railway trains to London Waterloo in around 35 minutes. The A3 runs along the northern edge of Hook, and the A243 heads south to the M25 at Leatherhead.
Neighbourhoods we cover: Hook, Chessington North, Chessington South, Moor Lane, Malden Rushett.
Postcodes we cover
- KT9
- Chessington, Hook, Malden Rushett
- KT6
- Tolworth, Surbiton Tolworth page →
- KT5
- Berrylands, Surbiton Berrylands page →
Areas near Chessington we also cover
Each has its own page, on the same terms and the same fixed monthly figure.
From first call to first payment
Four steps. Not sure whether your Chessington property qualifies? Ask us, it takes a minute.
Day one
We view the Chessington property
We look at the home, confirm what it would let for, and put in writing what we will pay and for how long. No charge and no obligation.
On signing
VividSpaces goes on the lease
A company let of three to five years with our name on it. From the date in the agreement the rent obligation is ours, occupied or not.
Before move-in
We prepare the home and place a family
Any light works first, then a family referred and vetted by local authorities and checked again by us.
Every month
The same figure on the same date
Repairs, inspections, cleaning and every phone call run through our office for the whole term.
Chessington landlord questions
If yours is not here, ask us directly. We would rather answer it before you sign than after.
Yes. We take homes across KT9, including Hook, Chessington North and South, and out towards Malden Rushett. Tolworth and Surbiton have their own pages.
We agree the figure after viewing, at or above open-market rent, fixed in the lease. The ONS put the Kingston borough average at £1,821 a month in September 2026, and £1,765 for two bedrooms.
Yes. Two and three bedroom bungalows can suit the families we house well, and we look at each on its merits.
Yes. VividSpaces is named on a three to five year lease with a 36 month minimum, so the rent is our obligation for the whole term.
A small family needing a long-term home, referred through local authority partnerships and vetted twice. We keep to any conditions you set.
Not for one family. Kingston licenses homes shared by five or more people from two or more households. For anything beyond that, check with Kingston's licensing team; we go through your address with you before you sign.
Request a rental proposal for your Chessington property
Tell us the address. We look at the property and come back with a fixed monthly figure and the term we can offer on it, in writing, at no cost.
Before you call
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