Richmond, London • England
Richmond, in south-west London, England, carries the SW postcode area and sits where the capital softens into Surrey — the Thames on one side, Richmond Park on the other, and the A316 running east into town. It is leafier than most crew bases and priced to match, but KrewBase finds workable whole properties here for contractor crews: serviced houses and flats, bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested, parking checked, and one tidy monthly invoice for the company.
Richmond's stock is handsome — white-stucco terraces near the river, period semis towards Kew, Sheen and the Twickenham side, and purpose-built flats around the centre. It is not cheap, so we work harder here than most places: sensible properties on the more practical streets, rather than postcard houses nobody could justify on a job rate. Where a contract calls for flats instead, the centre and the riverfront have plenty of well-kept options, and we lean towards the ones with real storage and sensible layouts rather than show homes.
What does not change is the filter. Parking checked against the actual vehicles, two bathrooms for five or more, a kitchen and living room that make sense for a crew, and Wi-Fi that has been speed-tested before check-in. If a property only works on paper, it does not make the shortlist. That extra digging is what you are paying us for — the borough rewards patience, and punishes anyone who books the first thing they see online.
An affluent borough means steady refurbishment work — period houses, basements, high-end fit-outs — alongside schools, healthcare sites and the never-ending maintenance of parks, riverside and public realm along the Thames. Crews also use Richmond as a base for jobs fanning out into Surrey and the M3 corridor. There is also steady work keeping period housing stock weather-tight and modern, which keeps carpenters, roofers and M&E crews in the area for months at a time.
We keep it generic because the specifics change week to week, but the accommodation need does not: a crew on a contract here wants a proper house, a sensible commute and one invoice, not a hotel rack rate eating the job margin. A crew on a contract here wants a proper house, a sensible commute and one invoice — and that is exactly what we set up.
The A316 is the main artery, running from Richmond straight into central London and out west to the M3 at Sunbury. The A205 South Circular is a short hop for jobs around south London, and the A307 and A308 cover Kingston, Hampton and the river towns quickly. By rail, Richmond station runs direct to Waterloo, and the District line covers the inner route, so a crew can leave the van at home for central jobs.
Send us the site postcode and we shortlist by real drive time at shift hours — Richmond's roads punish guesswork, and the difference between a good placement and a bad one is often a single junction. Wherever the site sits, we check the commute in both directions so the crew is not crossing the borough twice a day for no reason.
You take the whole property — crew only. Bills for gas, electric, water and council tax are in our name, Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, the weekly clean and linen change comes as standard, and maintenance goes to us with one phone call. The crew's only job is the job — everything about the house, from the boiler to the broadband, sits with us.
It runs on one monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees. Send the site, headcount and dates, and the shortlist is back within two hours — even in a borough where the right property takes a little more digging. And because Richmond contracts often run long, we check the property will still be right in month four, not just on day one.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
Inside two hours of receiving the site postcode, headcount and dates. Richmond is a tighter market than most London bases, so every option is checked — parking, bathrooms, broadband — before it reaches you, and if the better value sits in Kew or towards Twickenham we say so plainly rather than padding the list.
Richmond itself plus Kew, Mortlake, East Sheen and towards Twickenham and Teddington. For jobs towards Kingston or Hampton we flag which side of Richmond keeps the commute shortest, and for crews we lean towards the streets with drives and easier parking.
Usually, yes — Richmond has more driveways than central London, though some streets are permit-only. We check parking against your actual vehicles before anything is offered, and if a property's parking is shaky we either fix it or drop the property.
Everything domestic is covered: gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband all sit in KrewBase's name within the rate. The connection is speed-tested before check-in, and the weekly clean keeps the place functioning across a long Richmond contract — no utility bills ever reach the crew or your accounts team.
For anything beyond a week or two, nearly always. Per head, a whole property works out cheaper than hotel rooms, the crew can cook and live properly, and the company gets one monthly invoice instead of a stack of folios. Hotels are for one-night stops; a contract wants a house.
Three things: the site postcode, the crew size, and the dates — plus any vehicle details so parking can be checked. With that we come back inside two hours with properties that genuinely fit, on card payment invoicing with no booking fees.
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Working in Richmond? You are about 9 miles from London, so we often shortlist from both. Have a look at our contractor accommodation London page too — whole houses, bills in, one invoice, whatever the size of the crew.
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Need beds in Richmond? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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