Best Landlord Certificate Providers in London (2026): 15 Companies, Real Prices Compared

Quick answer In London, published EICR prices for a studio or one-bed flat run from £65 to £129.99. Gas safety certificates (CP12) run from £29 to £75. Domestic EPCs run from £34 to £129.99. That's a 2x spread on the same job. And five of the nineteen London providers we checked publish no price at all for any of the three, so you can't compare them without ringing round. Several more publish one or two and leave the rest blank. Below is every published price we could find, side by side, with the date we checked it.

Here's the problem with searching for a landlord certificate company in London. Every single one says it's the best. Every one says fixed prices, fast turnaround, fully qualified engineers. Nobody puts their number next to anyone else's.

So we did it.

We checked nineteen London providers plus six national options in August 2026 and recorded every price they actually publish on their own website. Fifteen publish at least one price, and those fifteen are in the table below. No estimates. No "typical market rates". Where a company doesn't show a number, we've written "not published" rather than guessing on their behalf.

Two other things you should know before you read the table. Almost every price in this market is a "from" price, including ours, so treat them as starting points rather than final invoices. And a few providers advertise a headline figure that their own booking page then contradicts. We've flagged those where we found them.

We run one of the companies in this table. You'll see below where we're the cheapest and where we're clearly not, because a comparison that only flatters us is useless to you and you'd spot it in ten seconds anyway.

Who this is for

• Private landlords in London letting one to five properties who want to stop getting quoted different numbers by different firms.
• Letting agents and block managers pricing up a portfolio and needing a defensible cost benchmark.
• Accidental landlords letting a flat for the first time who don't yet know what a reasonable price looks like.
• Landlords outside London can still use the ranges, but be aware London pricing carries parking, congestion and ULEZ costs that a Manchester or Leeds price won't.

What do landlord certificates actually cost in London in 2026?

Start here. These are the published entry-level prices across every London provider we checked, and the mid-point most landlords will realistically pay for a one to three bedroom property.

Entry prices are usually for a studio or one-bed with a single appliance. Bedrooms, extra gas appliances and consumer unit complexity all push the price up. Prices as published on each provider's own site on 7 August 2026.

Every London provider compared: EICR, gas and EPC prices

This is the table nobody else publishes. Fifteen London-focused providers, ordered cheapest EICR first. "Not published" means exactly that. We looked, and the company doesn't show a number on its site.

All figures read directly from each provider's own published pricing on 7 August 2026. Nearly all are "from" prices, ours included. Entry prices normally assume a studio or one-bed and, for gas, a single appliance. Landlords Checks publishes no prices on its homepage; the figures above come from its interior service pages.

Three headline prices that don't survive contact with the booking form

"Gas safety from £20" (Landlord Certificate London). The homepage advertises £20. Take the booking form to the same point and a meter plus one appliance prices at £50. We've used £50 in the table because that's what you'd actually pay.

"EICR from £65" (Gas Certificate). The same page that carries the £65 headline states EICR pricing of £119 for a 1-3 bed and £139 for a 4-5 bed further down. We've used the detail pricing.

£29 gas safety certificates (MultiCerts). This one appears to be a genuine published price, but it sits below the UK floor. Checkatrade's own cost guide puts the UK average CP12 at £60 to £90, with roughly £80 typical and London above average. Treat £29 as an entry offer for one appliance on a weekday and ask what two appliances costs before you book.

Which London provider is cheapest for each certificate?

Short version, because this is what most people came for.

• Cheapest EICR: MultiCerts and Landlords Checks both publish £65 for a studio. We're £2.99 behind at £67.99, alongside Landlord Certificate London at the same price. Practically speaking that's a rounding error, and all four sit at the bottom of the London market.
• Cheapest gas safety certificate: MultiCerts at £29 on paper, though that's below the UK floor and should be treated as an entry offer. Landlord Certificates Ltd at £40 and Pro Checks at £47.99 are the cheapest prices that look like realistic transaction prices. We're next at £49.99.
• Cheapest EPC: MyConstructor at £34 for a Greater London studio, then i-EPC, which advertises "from £59" on its homepage and lists £69 for a studio on its own prices page. Both undercut every dedicated certificate company including us.
• Cheapest fire risk assessment: we're the cheapest published FRA we found in London at £74.99. Next up is EICR Cert at £79, then Property Compliance London at £99, then Compliance Certificates London at £159.
• Cheapest legionella risk assessment: Compliance Certificates London at £79. Ours is £299.99, which is well above the London market. More on that below, because there's a bigger point about legionella that will save you more than the price difference.

Bundles: where the real saving is, and who actually publishes a price

If you need two or more certificates, a bundle is almost always cheaper than booking separately. Not just on the certificate price. On access, too. Every separate visit means another round of arranging a time with your tenant, and access is the single most common reason compliance slips in the first place.

Here's the frustrating bit. Almost nobody publishes bundle prices. Most sites say "discounts available on multiple certificates" and leave it there.

Compliance Certificates London is the only company in this market with a full priced package matrix on its site. Credit where it's due. If you want to compare bundles today, they're the only London specialist you can actually compare against.

The companies that won't tell you the price until you ring

Five of the nineteen London providers we checked publish no EICR, gas or EPC price anywhere on their site. Several more publish one or two and leave the rest blank, which is why four cells in the big table above read "not published".

That isn't automatically a red flag. Genuinely complex jobs (large HMOs, commercial units, listed buildings) do need a survey before anyone can quote honestly. But for a two-bed flat in Lewisham? There's no technical reason the number can't be on the page.

If you're calling a quote-only provider, ask these four things before you agree to anything:

• What's the total price for this exact property, including VAT?
• Is there a call-out fee, congestion charge, ULEZ charge or parking charge on top?
• Does the price change if the property is older, or has more circuits or appliances than expected?
• If the inspection fails, what do you charge for the remedial work, and am I obliged to use you for it?

That last one matters more than the first. A cheap inspection followed by an expensive, non-optional remedial quote is the most common way landlords end up paying far more than they expected.

What about British Gas, HomeServe and the marketplaces?

You've got three other routes besides a London specialist. Each suits a different kind of landlord.

Subscription cover (HomeServe, Hometree, British Gas)

HomeServe publishes £126 a year for a landlord gas plan that includes the annual inspection and CP12. Hometree includes the gas safety check and certificate in its core landlord cover plans, which start at £17.45 a month. It isn't free, it's bundled into a paid insurance policy. British Gas publishes no price at all and quotes by phone.

The maths is simple. A standalone CP12 at £49.99 costs you around £150 over three years. HomeServe's plan costs £378 over the same period. The £228 difference is buying you boiler breakdown cover, not a better certificate. Whether that's worth it depends entirely on the age of your boiler.

Worth knowing before you sign: HomeServe's landlord plan is Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 appointments only, and covers a maximum of two boilers.

Marketplaces (Checkatrade, MyBuilder, Bark, MyConstructor)

These aren't providers. They're introducers. You post the job, trades bid, you pick one.

MyConstructor is the most polished of them for certificates, with instant Greater London pricing (EICR £69 studio, EPC £34 studio), online booking in under a minute and a very large public review base. On raw price for a single certificate it's hard to beat.

Where marketplaces get awkward is multi-certificate jobs and what happens after a fail. You'll typically need separate trades for gas, electrical and EPC, which means three appointments and three access arrangements. And if a job goes wrong, you're chasing an individual trade rather than a company with an operations team.

So which route should you pick?

Is a £65 EICR safe to use, or are you buying a problem?

Fair question. And the honest answer has two halves.

Half one: yes, a properly conducted EICR at £65 to £70 is entirely legitimate in London. The reason isn't corner-cutting, it's route density. A company doing eight jobs a day inside the same three boroughs has a completely different cost base from a one-van electrician driving across the city for two.

Half two: a low inspection fee does create an incentive problem, and you should know about it. Industry commentators have pointed out that a thorough inspection of a flat takes around three hours, while some firms are doing ten or more jobs a day. If the inspection itself barely breaks even, the money has to come from somewhere. Usually that's the remedial work.

So the question isn't "is £65 too cheap". It's "what happens after the inspection".

Five questions that tell you more than the price does

1. How long will the engineer be on site? A one-bed flat should take 1.5 to 3 hours. Twenty minutes is not an EICR.

2. What percentage of circuits will be tested, and where is that declared? Every EICR has a limitations section. Read it.

3. Am I obliged to use you for any remedial work? The right answer is no.

4. Will you give me a written breakdown of any C1 and C2 items with the reason for each code? "Old wiring" is not a reason.

5. Can I have the inspector's competent-person scheme number? You can then check it yourself on the NICEIC or NAPIT member finder.

How to check any London provider before you book

Five minutes of checking beats a week of arguing later. Here's the sequence.

• Check the engineer, not just the company. For gas, search the engineer's name or licence number on the Gas Safe Register. For electrical work, use the NICEIC or NAPIT member finder. A company saying it's "NICEIC approved" isn't the same as the individual attending being registered.
• Ask for a registration number, not a logo. Any firm can put a badge on a website. Registration numbers are checkable.
• Check whether the price is the price. Ask specifically about call-out fees, parking, congestion charge, ULEZ and older-property surcharges. These are where a fixed price stops being fixed.
• Ask when you get the certificate. "Within 24 hours of inspection" and "within 24 hours of payment" are not the same promise.
• Look for a real address and a company number. Several London certificate sites publish neither. That doesn't make them dishonest, but it does make them hard to chase.

Where we're not the cheapest, and what we'd tell you to do about it

We said we'd be straight about this, so here it is.

The legionella point that matters more than the price

The Health and Safety Executive is unambiguous about this. Its guidance for landlords states that health and safety law does not require landlords to obtain or produce a legionella test certificate. The legal duty is to assess and control the risk, and HSE says most landlords can carry out that assessment themselves without being trained or accredited.

So if a managing agent or contractor has sent you a letter demanding an annual "legionella certificate" and quoting a fine, check it against the HSE's own page before you pay anyone, including us.

Where a paid assessment genuinely earns its money is stored water systems, tanks, larger HMOs, commercial premises and properties with vulnerable occupants. For a standard two-bed flat with a combi boiler, it usually doesn't.

That paragraph costs us bookings. We'd rather you trusted the rest of the page.

Sources

Every price above was read directly from the provider's own website on 7 August 2026. Regulations are linked to the primary source.

• Provider pricing: multicerts.com, landlordschecks.co.uk, gascertificate.co.uk, mylandlordcertificate.co.uk, landlordcertificatelondon.co.uk, landlord-certificates.co.uk, prochecks.co.uk, eicrcert.co.uk, landlordsafetyhub.co.uk, propertycompliancelondon.co.uk, compliancecertificates.co.uk, landlordcertification.co.uk, landlordpropertycertificates.co.uk, firstlandlordcertificateslondon.co.uk, eicrlandlordcert.co.uk
• National and marketplace pricing: homeserve.co.uk, hometree.co.uk, britishgas.co.uk, myconstructor.co.uk, i-epc.co.uk, checkatrade.com cost guide
• Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020, reg 11. £40,000 penalty cap, raised from £30,000 by SI 2025/1043 with effect from 1 November 2025 for private landlords
• HSE: Legionella and landlords' responsibilities
• Gas Safe Register engineer check