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Where are the most property companies registered?

Across the areas we cover, 333,462 property companies — special-purpose vehicles whose main activity is buying, letting or managing real estate (SIC 68100/68209/68320) — have a registered office. Hackney leads with 18,079. These are counts of where a company is registered, not where it trades — formation agents and accountants register many companies at one address, and we exclude bulk-registration postcodes from street and sector figures.

Every area ranked

#	Area	Region	Property companies
1	Hackney	London	18,079 +30.5%
2	Westminster	London	17,593 +2.8%
3	Camden	London	16,585 +47.7%
4	Barnet	London	15,730 +6.1%
5	Hammersmith and Fulham	London	10,637 -31.6%
6	Islington	London	10,186 +22.6%
7	Harrow	London	9,512 -1.5%
8	Manchester	Greater Manchester	8,825 +6.5%
9	Redbridge	London	8,156 +2.1%
10	Enfield	London	6,413 +1.5%
11	Haringey	London	6,040 +17.2%
12	Hillingdon	London	5,869 +9.3%
13	Tower Hamlets	London	5,683 +29%
14	Ealing	London	5,473 +5.2%
15	Croydon	London	5,349 +5.4%
16	Brent	London	5,284 -11.4%
17	City of London	London	4,917 -4.5%
18	Newham	London	4,329 +12.5%
19	Hounslow	London	4,167 +18.8%
20	Salford	Greater Manchester	4,012 +9.2%
21	Bromley	London	3,951 +6.3%
22	Trafford	Greater Manchester	3,598 -0.2%
23	Merton	London	3,511 +18.6%
24	Havering	London	3,497 -6.3%
25	Waltham Forest	London	3,497 +7.5%
26	Wandsworth	London	3,449 -0.6%
27	Brighton and Hove	East Sussex	3,321 -7.6%
28	Bury	Greater Manchester	3,304 +25%
29	Stockport	Greater Manchester	3,257 +10.9%
30	Lambeth	London	3,202 +5.4%
31	Southwark	London	3,103 +0.6%
32	Bolton	Greater Manchester	3,080 -5.4%
33	Hertsmere	Hertfordshire	3,059 +0.4%
34	West Suffolk	Suffolk	2,959 +19.5%
35	Kensington and Chelsea	London	2,875 +8.8%
36	Bexley	London	2,783 -7.3%
37	Epping Forest	Essex	2,783 +5.7%
38	Richmond upon Thames	London	2,606 -0.5%
39	Greenwich	London	2,584 -5.3%
40	Medway	Kent	2,418 -7%
41	Barking and Dagenham	London	2,352 +6.9%
42	Sutton	London	2,332 +12.7%
43	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	2,327 -3.6%
44	Oldham	Greater Manchester	2,045 +7.2%
45	Lewisham	London	1,952 +17.6%
46	Kingston upon Thames	London	1,922 -8.8%
47	Elmbridge	Surrey	1,874 -1.1%
48	Rochdale	Greater Manchester	1,871 -18.1%
49	Three Rivers	Hertfordshire	1,822 -11.2%
50	Basildon	Essex	1,790 +17.7%
51	Chelmsford	Essex	1,785 -9%
52	Portsmouth	Hampshire	1,726 +6.9%
53	Dartford	Kent	1,722 +0.4%
54	Watford	Hertfordshire	1,688 -2.7%
55	Wigan	Greater Manchester	1,669 -1.7%
56	Broxbourne	Hertfordshire	1,637 +15.2%
57	St Albans	Hertfordshire	1,626 +14.4%
58	Thurrock	Essex	1,526 +3.3%
59	Sevenoaks	Kent	1,525 +10.3%
60	Runnymede	Surrey	1,506 -5.4%
61	Colchester	Essex	1,506 -9.4%
62	Southampton	Hampshire	1,498 +32.1%
63	Reigate and Banstead	Surrey	1,470 -12.4%
64	East Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	1,468 -20.7%
65	Tameside	Greater Manchester	1,464 +0.9%
66	Wealden	East Sussex	1,429 +2.9%
67	Dacorum	Hertfordshire	1,390 +18.4%
68	New Forest	Hampshire	1,374 +7.6%
69	North Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	1,333 +16.3%
70	Tonbridge and Malling	Kent	1,305 -10.9%
71	East Suffolk	Suffolk	1,295 +19.7%
72	Maidstone	Kent	1,285 +24.8%
73	Winchester	Hampshire	1,285 +9.5%
74	Waverley	Surrey	1,240 +20.8%
75	Guildford	Surrey	1,236 +24.2%
76	Ipswich	Suffolk	1,217 +1.4%
77	Mid Sussex	West Sussex	1,203 +21.8%
78	Ashford	Kent	1,152 -17.4%
79	Gravesham	Kent	1,144 -4.2%
80	Welwyn Hatfield	Hertfordshire	1,126 -17.3%
81	Canterbury	Kent	1,114 -9.2%
82	Brentwood	Essex	1,112 +14.4%
83	Rother	East Sussex	1,075 +46%
84	East Hampshire	Hampshire	1,072 +7.7%
85	Tandridge	Surrey	1,071 +17.2%
86	Horsham	West Sussex	1,070 -7.7%
87	Braintree	Essex	1,066 +10%
88	Tunbridge Wells	Kent	1,059 -13.5%
89	Chichester	West Sussex	1,043 -16.9%
90	Thanet	Kent	1,035 +3.4%
91	Worthing	West Sussex	1,017 +13.3%
92	Basingstoke and Deane	Hampshire	1,015 -7.1%
93	Eastleigh	Hampshire	983 +2.7%
94	Spelthorne	Surrey	971 +10.7%
95	Harlow	Essex	967 -4.8%
96	Eastbourne	East Sussex	959 +6.9%
97	Fareham	Hampshire	921 +42.7%
98	Epsom and Ewell	Surrey	905 +14.4%
99	Swale	Kent	885 +32.1%
100	Uttlesford	Essex	876 +6.7%
101	Castle Point	Essex	872 +6.6%
102	Surrey Heath	Surrey	848 +1%
103	Woking	Surrey	831 +11.4%
104	Test Valley	Hampshire	817 +6.4%
105	Arun	West Sussex	789 -14.3%
106	Mole Valley	Surrey	766 +31.4%
107	Stevenage	Hertfordshire	759 -14.7%
108	Havant	Hampshire	733 +6.5%
109	Tendring	Essex	718 -13.5%
110	Rochford	Essex	668 +7%
111	Maldon	Essex	662 -5.3%
112	Mid Suffolk	Suffolk	650 +8.1%
113	Folkestone and Hythe	Kent	625 +46.7%
114	Hart	Hampshire	606 +28%
115	Crawley	West Sussex	598 +58.7%
116	Rushmoor	Hampshire	583 +28.7%
117	Lewes	East Sussex	542 -1.8%
118	Babergh	Suffolk	539 +31.7%
119	Dover	Kent	526 -31.5%
120	Hastings	East Sussex	498 +62.9%
121	Adur	West Sussex	472 -17.6%
122	Gosport	Hampshire	351 +15.2%

Companies House Free Company Data (monthly bulk, OGL). Registered-office postcode → area via ONSPD. "Property company" = a live-register company whose SIC includes 68100 (buy/sell), 68209 (let/operate) or 68320 (manage) own or leased real estate. Attribution.