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Where are the most property companies registered?

Across the areas we cover, 357,043 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 18,400. 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	18,400 +22.3%
2	Westminster	London	17,465 +1%
3	Camden	London	16,549 +22.1%
4	Barnet	London	15,894 +3%
5	Hammersmith and Fulham	London	10,474 -31%
6	Islington	London	10,243 +14.1%
7	Harrow	London	9,630 -7.2%
8	Manchester	Greater Manchester	8,978 +6.7%
9	Redbridge	London	8,371 -2.9%
10	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	6,733 -5.8%
11	Enfield	London	6,471 -5%
12	Haringey	London	6,301 +23.2%
13	Hillingdon	London	5,923 -2.6%
14	Tower Hamlets	London	5,772 +25.7%
15	Ealing	London	5,583 -5.5%
16	Croydon	London	5,388 -7.8%
17	Brent	London	5,348 -7.4%
18	City of London	London	4,975 -10.6%
19	Newham	London	4,415 +7.2%
20	Hounslow	London	4,232 +7.4%
21	Salford	Greater Manchester	4,088 +6.8%
22	Bromley	London	3,992 -7.9%
23	Trafford	Greater Manchester	3,723 -11.5%
24	Waltham Forest	London	3,682 +20.7%
25	Merton	London	3,520 +0.2%
26	Havering	London	3,506 -11.8%
27	Wandsworth	London	3,438 +8.5%
28	Bury	Greater Manchester	3,404 +2%
29	Milton Keynes	Buckinghamshire	3,346 -3.4%
30	Brighton and Hove	East Sussex	3,332 -9.8%
31	Stockport	Greater Manchester	3,322 +3.9%
32	Lambeth	London	3,266 -5.6%
33	Southwark	London	3,150 +14.1%
34	West Suffolk	Suffolk	3,137 +11.3%
35	Bolton	Greater Manchester	3,112 -22.1%
36	Hertsmere	Hertfordshire	3,035 -3%
37	Epping Forest	Essex	2,844 +3.1%
38	Kensington and Chelsea	London	2,836 -6.7%
39	Bexley	London	2,804 -7.6%
40	Greenwich	London	2,617 -18.2%
41	Richmond upon Thames	London	2,600 +2.4%
42	Medway	Kent	2,493 -19.2%
43	Sutton	London	2,388 +20.3%
44	Barking and Dagenham	London	2,385 -5.6%
45	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	2,337 -2.3%
46	Slough	Berkshire	2,186 -12.6%
47	Oldham	Greater Manchester	2,086 -13.4%
48	Kingston upon Thames	London	1,971 +2.8%
49	Lewisham	London	1,963 +10%
50	Windsor and Maidenhead	Berkshire	1,924 -38.5%
51	Rochdale	Greater Manchester	1,921 -18.4%
52	Chelmsford	Essex	1,862 -25.8%
53	Elmbridge	Surrey	1,860 -7.5%
54	Wokingham	Berkshire	1,844 -19.7%
55	Three Rivers	Hertfordshire	1,833 -3.2%
56	Dartford	Kent	1,756 +2.7%
57	Basildon	Essex	1,729 +15.2%
58	Broxbourne	Hertfordshire	1,711 +10%
59	Wigan	Greater Manchester	1,693 -16.3%
60	Portsmouth	Hampshire	1,688 +10.1%
61	Watford	Hertfordshire	1,664 -6.5%
62	St Albans	Hertfordshire	1,629 -3.3%
63	Reading	Berkshire	1,606 -20%
64	Thurrock	Essex	1,558 -12.8%
65	Sevenoaks	Kent	1,539 +7.7%
66	Colchester	Essex	1,531 +1.2%
67	Runnymede	Surrey	1,508 -18.5%
68	Tameside	Greater Manchester	1,503 +8.5%
69	Southampton	Hampshire	1,502 +17.8%
70	East Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	1,465 -19.9%
71	Reigate and Banstead	Surrey	1,443 -26.5%
72	Wealden	East Sussex	1,438 -7.1%
73	Dacorum	Hertfordshire	1,418 +8.4%
74	North Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	1,392 +20.2%
75	New Forest	Hampshire	1,375 -11.8%
76	Tonbridge and Malling	Kent	1,327 -12.6%
77	Maidstone	Kent	1,312 -2%
78	East Suffolk	Suffolk	1,297 +3.9%
79	Winchester	Hampshire	1,296 -22.4%
80	Guildford	Surrey	1,290 +20.9%
81	Ipswich	Suffolk	1,242 -2.1%
82	Waverley	Surrey	1,240 +8.5%
83	West Berkshire	Berkshire	1,211 +11.4%
84	Mid Sussex	West Sussex	1,205 +4.6%
85	Brentwood	Essex	1,172 +2.6%
86	Gravesham	Kent	1,157 -12.6%
87	Ashford	Kent	1,152 -20.7%
88	Canterbury	Kent	1,145 -4.1%
89	Rother	East Sussex	1,114 +3.8%
90	Welwyn Hatfield	Hertfordshire	1,113 +7.9%
91	Horsham	West Sussex	1,094 -27%
92	Braintree	Essex	1,085 -3.6%
93	Tandridge	Surrey	1,081 -1.9%
94	Tunbridge Wells	Kent	1,080 -15.1%
95	Thanet	Kent	1,069 +4.1%
96	East Hampshire	Hampshire	1,064 -7.7%
97	Chichester	West Sussex	1,054 -15.5%
98	Worthing	West Sussex	1,026 -19.4%
99	Basingstoke and Deane	Hampshire	1,025 -16.3%
100	Harlow	Essex	1,014 -10.8%
101	Spelthorne	Surrey	994 +17.9%
102	Eastbourne	East Sussex	984 -0.9%
103	Eastleigh	Hampshire	983 -22.2%
104	Fareham	Hampshire	952 -3.2%
105	Epsom and Ewell	Surrey	939 +26.7%
106	Uttlesford	Essex	907 -1.1%
107	Castle Point	Essex	899 +21.4%
108	Swale	Kent	896 +23.7%
109	Surrey Heath	Surrey	855 -12.7%
110	Test Valley	Hampshire	836 +16.4%
111	Woking	Surrey	836 +0%
112	Arun	West Sussex	830 +20.8%
113	Mole Valley	Surrey	795 -15.9%
114	Stevenage	Hertfordshire	770 -2.4%
115	Havant	Hampshire	742 +3.4%
116	Tendring	Essex	722 -28%
117	Rochford	Essex	684 +13.8%
118	Bracknell Forest	Berkshire	666 -8.2%
119	Maldon	Essex	665 -19.2%
120	Mid Suffolk	Suffolk	661 -3.2%
121	Folkestone and Hythe	Kent	629 +67.9%
122	Crawley	West Sussex	622 +24.7%
123	Hart	Hampshire	607 +1.7%
124	Rushmoor	Hampshire	602 -5.9%
125	Lewes	East Sussex	563 +5.5%
126	Babergh	Suffolk	552 -7.8%
127	Dover	Kent	542 -43.6%
128	Hastings	East Sussex	505 +8.3%
129	Adur	West Sussex	474 -18.2%
130	Gosport	Hampshire	366 +14.6%

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.