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Who manages your estate?

Every managed estate has a company behind it, registered at Companies House, and where that company is registered tells you a lot: 12,002 of the 168,580 active residents' and estate management companies in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are registered to the office of a managing agent. This is the register read for that, monthly, under the Open Government Licence. It says who sits behind an estate; it does not say what residents pay, because no official source does.

168,580active residents' and estate management companies on the register
12,002registered to a named managing agent's office
2,511at the largest single office, HML

The offices most residents' companies are registered to

A company registered to an agent's office is almost always one that agent administers, which is why this is the nearest thing to a league table of estate management that exists. The register records the address, not the contract, so the wording throughout is "registered to", never "managed by".

Office Companies registered to it Share of all Earliest to latest incorporation
HML 2,511 1.5% 1907 to 2026
FirstPort 1,313 0.8% 1961 to 2026
RMG (Residential Management Group) 863 0.5% 1968 to 2026
Warwick Estates 839 0.5% 1959 to 2026
Inspired Property Management 741 0.4% 1969 to 2026
LSH Residential (Lambert Smith Hampton) 738 0.4% 1966 to 2026
Encore Estate Management 650 0.4% 1963 to 2026
Trinity Estates 631 0.4% 1968 to 2026
Persimmon (developer) developer 456 0.3% 1995 to 2026
Kingston Property Services (Kingston Open Spaces) 364 0.2% 1972 to 2026
Prime Property Management 360 0.2% 1962 to 2025
Urang Property Management 330 0.2% 1961 to 2026
Trustgreen 316 0.2% 2013 to 2026
Gateway Property Management 315 0.2% 1968 to 2026
Haus Block Management 304 0.2% 1956 to 2026
Ground Solutions UK 273 0.2% 1991 to 2026
Rendall & Rittner 267 0.2% 1957 to 2026
CSM Property Management 260 0.2% 1982 to 2025
Crown Property Management 258 0.2% 1961 to 2025
Scanlans 200 0.1% 1962 to 2023
Remus Management 6 0.0% 2017 to 2019
Greenbelt 5 0.0% 2015 to 2016
Pinnacle Property Management 2 0.0% 2015 to 2019

Source: Companies House, basic company data snapshot, active companies with the SIC code "Residents property management" or a property-management code and a name that says residents, management company, estate management, freeholders or homeowners. Attribution of an office to an agent was checked against the agent's own published contact details. Registered-office services and formation agents, whose clusters say nothing about management, are counted in the total but never attributed. An agent that believes an attribution is wrong can write to support@ukpropertyinsight.co.uk and the correction is published on the accuracy log.