The FortiesKentish Town, Camden

Islip Street, NW5 2UG · nearest station Kentish Town (251 m) · data as of 19 Jun 2026

28: active short-letsreviewed in the last 12 months
68%: are entire homes19 homes, 9 private rooms
£308: median nightly pricefrom 25 listed prices
74: nights booked a yearmedian, estimated
£9,000: yearly revenue per listingmedian, estimated
46%: run by large operatorshosts with 10+ London listings

Bedroom mix

1 bed 43%
2 bed 43%
3 bed 11%
4+ bed 4%

Average 1.8 bedrooms — roughly 1.8 linen sets per changeover.

Guest reviews per month (proxy for stays)

Jun 2025 – May 2026. Busiest: October 2025; quietest: February 2026.

What it means for linen

~13 changeovers a week within 250 m

Every checkout is a bed to strip and a set to replace. Around The Forties that adds up to an estimated 687 changeovers a year — about 23 sets of bed linen a week.

687: changeovers a year, est.
~23: linen sets a week, est.

Nearby buildings on the NW5 round

Building	Street	Distance	Short-lets within 250 m
Appleford	Islip Street	100 m	26
Greenwood	Oseney Crescent	110 m	26
Aborfield	—	110 m	26
Rowstock	Oseney Crescent	150 m	30
Florence Court	Torriano Avenue	230 m	29

LPLAUNDRY

The Forties · 19 Jun 2026

How LPLaundry keeps short-let linen moving

One flat is not too small to matterNo minimum order and no contract. We already pass The Forties on the NW5 round, so a single property is collected the same way fifty are.
46% of lets here are run by operatorsRun more than one flat near The Forties? They go on one account — one invoice, one collection round across Camden, one person to call.
1.8 bedrooms is a lot of linenA two- or three-bed turns over twelve pillowcases and four towels a changeover, not four and two. We bag it by set so nobody counts a pile on the doorstep.
Kentish Town is 251 m away — short stays, back to backCheckout at 10, check-in at 3, most days of the week. The clean set is in the flat before the guest has left.

Airbnb laundry near The Forties

Linen hire and changeover laundry, collected and delivered 7 days on the NW5 round. No minimum order.

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Sources and method. Short-let figures: ,[object Object],, London snapshot 19 Jun 2026, licensed ,[object Object],. Active means at least one review in the previous 12 months. Building name, address and nearest station: © ,[object Object],, licensed ,[object Object],. All figures describe listings within 250 m of the building. They say nothing about any flat in The Forties itself. Medians are shown only when at least 10 listings report the value. Prices above £2000 a night are excluded as outliers. The 90-night limit on short lets in Greater London is the ,[object Object],, not our interpretation of it. Rebuilt each time Inside Airbnb publishes a new London snapshot, about every three months. Short-let research, figures and method: Hassam Rafkey, Short-Let Research & Data Consultant and independent consultant to LPLaundry (15 years in Airbnb and short-let research). LPLaundry is a trading name of HHFA Group Services Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 16234834. Registered office: 1B Chantry Place, Harrow HA3 6NY. Spotted a figure that looks wrong? ,[object Object], and we will check it against the source and correct it.

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