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Where are the most property companies registered?

Across the areas we cover, 705,586 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 36,234. 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	36,234 +39.2%
2	Westminster	London	35,175 +8.3%
3	Camden	London	33,086 +55.3%
4	Barnet	London	31,467 +10.4%
5	Hammersmith and Fulham	London	21,158 -28.9%
6	Islington	London	20,307 +29.3%
7	Harrow	London	19,031 +3.3%
8	Manchester	Greater Manchester	17,578 +13.6%
9	Redbridge	London	16,355 +7.5%
10	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	13,378 +5.2%
11	Enfield	London	12,842 +7.5%
12	Haringey	London	12,033 +25.6%
13	Hillingdon	London	11,703 +14.5%
14	Tower Hamlets	London	11,357 +36.6%
15	Ealing	London	10,937 +10.1%
16	Croydon	London	10,686 +10.2%
17	Brent	London	10,569 -5.4%
18	City of London	London	9,866 -0.1%
19	Newham	London	8,647 +19.5%
20	Hounslow	London	8,347 +23.8%
21	Salford	Greater Manchester	8,056 +16.5%
22	Bromley	London	7,912 +12.9%
23	Trafford	Greater Manchester	7,288 +2.4%
24	Waltham Forest	London	7,031 +16%
25	Merton	London	7,005 +24%
26	Havering	London	6,964 -2.2%
27	Wandsworth	London	6,899 +5.2%
28	Brighton and Hove	East Sussex	6,630 -1.4%
29	Bury	Greater Manchester	6,622 +29.4%
30	Milton Keynes	Buckinghamshire	6,599 +8.1%
31	Stockport	Greater Manchester	6,503 +16%
32	Lambeth	London	6,406 +12.1%
33	Southwark	London	6,190 +7.9%
34	Bolton	Greater Manchester	6,159 -1.2%
35	Hertsmere	Hertfordshire	6,102 +3.9%
36	West Suffolk	Suffolk	5,929 +27.6%
37	Kensington and Chelsea	London	5,742 +13.8%
38	Epping Forest	Essex	5,560 +10.7%
39	Bexley	London	5,559 -2.8%
40	Richmond upon Thames	London	5,203 +5.3%
41	Greenwich	London	5,172 -1.6%
42	Medway	Kent	4,844 -3%
43	Barking and Dagenham	London	4,701 +13.6%
44	Sutton	London	4,678 +18.1%
45	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	4,637 -1.4%
46	Slough	Berkshire	4,253 +24%
47	Oldham	Greater Manchester	4,098 +13.6%
48	Lewisham	London	3,900 +25.2%
49	Kingston upon Thames	London	3,847 -1.5%
50	Windsor and Maidenhead	Berkshire	3,795 -16.9%
51	Elmbridge	Surrey	3,749 +1.7%
52	Rochdale	Greater Manchester	3,744 -13.8%
53	Wokingham	Berkshire	3,699 -10.5%
54	Three Rivers	Hertfordshire	3,644 -5.4%
55	Chelmsford	Essex	3,587 -6.2%
56	Basildon	Essex	3,585 +23.8%
57	Dartford	Kent	3,440 +5.7%
58	Portsmouth	Hampshire	3,434 +13.1%
59	Watford	Hertfordshire	3,353 +2.8%
60	Wigan	Greater Manchester	3,332 +2.5%
61	Broxbourne	Hertfordshire	3,284 +23.5%
62	St Albans	Hertfordshire	3,246 +17.9%
63	Reading	Berkshire	3,240 +3%
64	Thurrock	Essex	3,063 +11.6%
65	Sevenoaks	Kent	3,058 +16%
66	Colchester	Essex	3,013 -3.4%
67	Runnymede	Surrey	3,009 -1.4%
68	Southampton	Hampshire	2,993 +37.5%
69	Reigate and Banstead	Surrey	2,946 -6.3%
70	Tameside	Greater Manchester	2,940 +6.8%
71	East Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	2,934 -15.6%
72	Wealden	East Sussex	2,858 +5%
73	Dacorum	Hertfordshire	2,779 +20.1%
74	New Forest	Hampshire	2,733 +11.6%
75	North Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	2,680 +23.2%
76	Tonbridge and Malling	Kent	2,610 -5.9%
77	East Suffolk	Suffolk	2,582 +23.2%
78	Maidstone	Kent	2,574 +29.8%
79	Winchester	Hampshire	2,570 +17%
80	Guildford	Surrey	2,478 +32%
81	Waverley	Surrey	2,478 +27.6%
82	Ipswich	Suffolk	2,437 +7%
83	West Berkshire	Berkshire	2,435 +15.8%
84	Mid Sussex	West Sussex	2,413 +28.5%
85	Ashford	Kent	2,301 -13%
86	Gravesham	Kent	2,281 -1.2%
87	Canterbury	Kent	2,231 -4.9%
88	Welwyn Hatfield	Hertfordshire	2,231 -12.3%
89	Brentwood	Essex	2,229 +22.8%
90	Rother	East Sussex	2,157 +49.1%
91	East Hampshire	Hampshire	2,149 +16.3%
92	Tandridge	Surrey	2,145 +24.9%
93	Horsham	West Sussex	2,138 -6.4%
94	Braintree	Essex	2,133 +12.3%
95	Tunbridge Wells	Kent	2,116 -8.6%
96	Chichester	West Sussex	2,083 -13.1%
97	Thanet	Kent	2,079 +8.4%
98	Worthing	West Sussex	2,042 +18.9%
99	Basingstoke and Deane	Hampshire	2,028 -2.5%
100	Eastleigh	Hampshire	1,965 +7.6%
101	Harlow	Essex	1,950 +0.9%
102	Spelthorne	Surrey	1,948 +17.5%
103	Eastbourne	East Sussex	1,920 +11.9%
104	Fareham	Hampshire	1,857 +44%
105	Epsom and Ewell	Surrey	1,813 +21.9%
106	Swale	Kent	1,782 +45.5%
107	Castle Point	Essex	1,763 +15.2%
108	Uttlesford	Essex	1,754 +10.2%
109	Surrey Heath	Surrey	1,697 +6.6%
110	Woking	Surrey	1,661 +17.4%
111	Test Valley	Hampshire	1,638 +8.3%
112	Arun	West Sussex	1,580 -9.4%
113	Mole Valley	Surrey	1,535 +43.4%
114	Stevenage	Hertfordshire	1,518 -7.5%
115	Havant	Hampshire	1,474 +16.9%
116	Tendring	Essex	1,438 -9%
117	Rochford	Essex	1,335 +10.7%
118	Maldon	Essex	1,322 -3.4%
119	Bracknell Forest	Berkshire	1,321 +1.1%
120	Mid Suffolk	Suffolk	1,302 +11.3%
121	Folkestone and Hythe	Kent	1,249 +60%
122	Hart	Hampshire	1,214 +33.3%
123	Crawley	West Sussex	1,199 +64.4%
124	Rushmoor	Hampshire	1,170 +33.9%
125	Lewes	East Sussex	1,087 +5.6%
126	Babergh	Suffolk	1,075 +40%
127	Dover	Kent	1,059 -28.1%
128	Hastings	East Sussex	996 +76.1%
129	Adur	West Sussex	948 -19.2%
130	Gosport	Hampshire	713 +20.2%

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.