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Where are the most property companies registered?

Across the areas we cover, 300,788 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	Bury	Greater Manchester	3,304 +25%
28	Stockport	Greater Manchester	3,257 +10.9%
29	Lambeth	London	3,202 +5.4%
30	Southwark	London	3,103 +0.6%
31	Bolton	Greater Manchester	3,080 -5.4%
32	Hertsmere	Hertfordshire	3,059 +0.4%
33	West Suffolk	Suffolk	2,959 +19.5%
34	Kensington and Chelsea	London	2,875 +8.8%
35	Bexley	London	2,783 -7.3%
36	Richmond upon Thames	London	2,606 -0.5%
37	Greenwich	London	2,584 -5.3%
38	Medway	Kent	2,418 -7%
39	Barking and Dagenham	London	2,352 +6.9%
40	Sutton	London	2,332 +12.7%
41	Oldham	Greater Manchester	2,045 +7.2%
42	Lewisham	London	1,952 +17.6%
43	Kingston upon Thames	London	1,922 -8.8%
44	Elmbridge	Surrey	1,874 -1.1%
45	Rochdale	Greater Manchester	1,871 -18.1%
46	Three Rivers	Hertfordshire	1,822 -11.2%
47	Portsmouth	Hampshire	1,726 +6.9%
48	Dartford	Kent	1,722 +0.4%
49	Watford	Hertfordshire	1,688 -2.7%
50	Wigan	Greater Manchester	1,669 -1.7%
51	Broxbourne	Hertfordshire	1,637 +15.2%
52	St Albans	Hertfordshire	1,626 +14.4%
53	Sevenoaks	Kent	1,525 +10.3%
54	Runnymede	Surrey	1,506 -5.4%
55	Southampton	Hampshire	1,498 +32.1%
56	Reigate and Banstead	Surrey	1,470 -12.4%
57	East Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	1,468 -20.7%
58	Tameside	Greater Manchester	1,464 +0.9%
59	Dacorum	Hertfordshire	1,390 +18.4%
60	New Forest	Hampshire	1,374 +7.6%
61	North Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	1,333 +16.3%
62	Tonbridge and Malling	Kent	1,305 -10.9%
63	East Suffolk	Suffolk	1,295 +19.7%
64	Maidstone	Kent	1,285 +24.8%
65	Winchester	Hampshire	1,285 +9.5%
66	Waverley	Surrey	1,240 +20.8%
67	Guildford	Surrey	1,236 +24.2%
68	Ipswich	Suffolk	1,217 +1.4%
69	Ashford	Kent	1,152 -17.4%
70	Gravesham	Kent	1,144 -4.2%
71	Welwyn Hatfield	Hertfordshire	1,126 -17.3%
72	Canterbury	Kent	1,114 -9.2%
73	East Hampshire	Hampshire	1,072 +7.7%
74	Tandridge	Surrey	1,071 +17.2%
75	Tunbridge Wells	Kent	1,059 -13.5%
76	Thanet	Kent	1,035 +3.4%
77	Basingstoke and Deane	Hampshire	1,015 -7.1%
78	Eastleigh	Hampshire	983 +2.7%
79	Spelthorne	Surrey	971 +10.7%
80	Fareham	Hampshire	921 +42.7%
81	Epsom and Ewell	Surrey	905 +14.4%
82	Swale	Kent	885 +32.1%
83	Surrey Heath	Surrey	848 +1%
84	Woking	Surrey	831 +11.4%
85	Test Valley	Hampshire	817 +6.4%
86	Mole Valley	Surrey	766 +31.4%
87	Stevenage	Hertfordshire	759 -14.7%
88	Havant	Hampshire	733 +6.5%
89	Mid Suffolk	Suffolk	650 +8.1%
90	Folkestone and Hythe	Kent	625 +46.7%
91	Hart	Hampshire	606 +28%
92	Rushmoor	Hampshire	583 +28.7%
93	Babergh	Suffolk	539 +31.7%
94	Dover	Kent	526 -31.5%
95	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.