UK landlord company tracker.
Limited companies are now the standard way to hold buy-to-let property. We counted every active landlord company on the Companies House register in each council area of the UK, to show where they are concentrated, where new ones are still being set up, and where the slowdown is sharpest. Search for your area below. We will update this page every quarter.
Last updated 10 November 2026. Next update February 2027.
The headline figures.
461,037
Active landlord companies across the UK.
56,838
New companies set up between November 2025 and October 2026, down 5.4 per cent on the 60,105 of the year before.
+3.7%
Northern Ireland, the only part of the UK where formations rose. The North East fell furthest, down 9.3 per cent.
285
Landlord companies per 1,000 privately rented households in Three Rivers, the highest outside the City of London.
After Northern Ireland, every region fell. The North East dropped furthest at 9.3 per cent, then the West Midlands (7.5 per cent), the South East (7.3 per cent) and the North West (7.2 per cent). That matches the national slowdown Hamptons reported in September 2026.
Where the companies are. Three Rivers (285 per 1,000 privately rented households), Epping Forest (228) and Hertsmere (222) lead, and Trafford (208) is the highest anywhere outside London's commuter belt. At the other end sit Gosport (29), Hastings (30), Blackpool (30), and Torridge and Torbay (36 each): coastal areas dominate the bottom of the table.
Where formations are still rising. A small area can swing by a third on a handful of companies, so these are the 181 council areas that saw at least 100 new landlord companies in the previous year. On that basis Dacorum is up 20 per cent, Rhondda Cynon Taf 19 per cent, Guildford and Portsmouth 18 per cent, Cherwell 17 per cent, and Southampton and Edinburgh 16 per cent.
And where they are falling fastest. On the same threshold, Bath and North East Somerset and Windsor and Maidenhead are both down 41 per cent, followed by South Oxfordshire (37 per cent) and Eastleigh (32 per cent).
Most and fewest landlord companies per 1,000 privately rented households.
The fifteen highest
The fifteen lowest
The City of London and the Isles of Scilly are left out of both charts. The City's figure reflects registered offices rather than homes, and the Isles of Scilly are too small for the rate to mean anything.
Change in new landlord companies, by region and nation.
November 2025 to October 2026, against the twelve months before. Bars run right for a rise and left for a fall.
Find your area.
Sorted by landlord companies per 1,000 privately rented households, highest first. Click any heading to sort by it.
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Looking at the North West in particular? Our North West landlord company tracker goes borough by borough.
What it means.
A limited company is now the default structure for many landlords buying new property, mostly because of how mortgage interest is taxed for individual landlords.
It is not always the right choice: moving an existing portfolio into a company can trigger stamp duty and capital gains tax, so take tax advice first. We are brokers, not tax advisers. Our page on SPV mortgages covers what lenders look for once the company exists.
Method.
Companies with SIC code 68100 (buying and selling of own real estate) or 68209 (letting and operating of own or leased real estate), counted by registered office postcode and matched to council area, from the Companies House Basic Company Data snapshot of 1 November 2026.
"Active" includes companies with a proposal to strike off. New companies are those incorporated in each 12-month period. Postcodes with 50 or more such companies registered at them, typically accountants and formation agents, are excluded everywhere.
A registered office is not always where a company owns property. The City of London figure in particular reflects registered offices rather than homes, which is why it is left out of the charts.
Privately rented households are from Census 2021 (England and Wales, ONS table TS054). Scotland and Northern Ireland are shown without a rate. Other published counts, such as Property Tax Partners' regional figures, differ because they use more SIC codes and no adjustment for clustered registered offices.
Sources: Companies House Basic Company Data; ONS Census 2021 table TS054 via Nomis; ONS Postcode Directory via postcodes.io. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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