UK Property Company Formation Tracker

Since 2016, major tax reforms have reshaped how UK landlords structure their property portfolios. Many investors have turned to limited companies to protect profitability, driving growing interest in property investment through corporate structures.

Our Companies House Tracker monitors property letting and trading company formations weekly, monthly and annually using SIC 68100 or 68209. These activities can include buy-to-let investment, property flipping and buy-refurbish-rent-refinance strategies, but the codes do not verify any company's strategy or property ownership.

Last week

1,327

2 Nov–8 Nov 2026

+2.2% versus the previous week

Last month

6,020

October 2026

-1.7% versus the previous month

This year so far

65,817

Through 2026-11-10

Company formation overview

Metric	2026 YTD	2025 −1 year	2024 −2 years	2023 −3 years
Average companies set up per week	1,478.0 -14.4% versus equivalent coverage in the previous year	1,671.5 +24.6% versus the previous full year	1,341.3 +39.4% versus the previous full year	962.1
Average companies set up per month	6,392.6 -14.3% versus equivalent coverage in the previous year	7,180.9 +23.0% versus the previous full year	5,836.8 +40.0% versus the previous full year	4,170.6
Companies set up per year	65,817 -14.5% versus equivalent coverage in the previous year	86,171 +23.0% versus the previous full year	70,042 +40.0% versus the previous full year	50,047

YTD averages: 44 completed weeks and 10 completed months. YTD total: through 2026-11-10. Weeks crossing a year boundary and partial periods are excluded from averages.

Previous years show full calendar years. Percentage changes compare with the preceding year; YTD compares the same number of completed weeks or months, and the equivalent calendar date for totals. Missing coverage or a zero comparison baseline is shown as —. Historical source coverage remains unverified.

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New property companies by month

November 2025 – October 2026

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Three-month moving average

New property companies by week

10 Nov 2025 – 8 Nov 2026

Companies

Four-week moving average

Charts show calendar-closed periods only. Incomplete periods remain available in the historical table and CSV downloads. Vertical scales adjust to the displayed data and may start above zero.

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Period	Companies	Previous period	Year on year	Status
November 2026	1,891	—	—	Incomplete
October 2026	6,020	-1.7%	-25.4%	Revisable
September 2026	6,122	+18.2%	-26.4%	Revisable
August 2026	5,180	-18.4%	-25.8%	Revisable
July 2026	6,346	+5.9%	-16.1%	Revisable
June 2026	5,990	+3.1%	-19.4%	Revisable
May 2026	5,812	-8.0%	-19.9%	Revisable
April 2026	6,320	-17.5%	-10.6%	Revisable
March 2026	7,661	+11.4%	+0.5%	Revisable
February 2026	6,879	-9.4%	-5.4%	Revisable
January 2026	7,596	+43.7%	+8.0%	Revisable
December 2025	5,285	-15.7%	+6.8%	Revisable

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Changes compare observed counts, not seasonally adjusted rates. Missing periods and zero comparison baselines have no percentage change. A movement after a tax announcement does not establish that the announcement caused it.

Methodology v2

Methodology v2 removes SIC 68320 as a qualifying activity. All live figures, when available, use SIC 68100 or 68209 throughout the historical series. Previously published v1 figures used a broader definition and are not directly comparable. Frozen releases retain their original methodology.

Each UK private company limited by shares (including the limited-name exemption) counts once if it has SIC 68100 (buying and selling of own real estate) or SIC 68209 (other letting and operating of own or leased real estate). Additional SIC codes do not disqualify it, including SIC 68320 (management of real estate on a fee or contract basis), which does not qualify a company on its own. Incorporation uses the Companies House creation date, falling back to the legacy incorporation date. Active, dissolved, dormant and inactive statuses are not filters. SIC corrections can revise historical membership.

Weeks run Monday–Sunday in Europe/London; months are calendar months. Current periods end at the last calculated day and are marked incomplete. Later closure of a calendar period does not certify complete source coverage. The historical bulk dataset covers live companies; previously dissolved companies may be missing. These codes include residential and commercial property businesses, not just buy-to-let landlords. Flipping involves selling a property; buy-refurbish-rent-refinance involves retaining it to let. Neither strategy can be confirmed from these SIC codes alone.

Sources: Companies House SIC definitions and Companies House data products. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. No official endorsement is implied.

Observed company records, not a complete historical register

Reconstructed from available company records and observed SIC codes; historical coverage is not verified as a complete incorporation register. Not seasonally adjusted. All calendar-closed totals remain revisable. Current SIC codes do not prove a company's activity at incorporation.

Latest reporting periods last calculated no earlier than: 2026-11-11 02:00:03 UTC. Retained company stream checkpoint: 2026-11-10 23:32:02 UTC. Recalculations can combine retained observations with newly refreshed records; neither calculation time nor a checkpoint certifies a full source refresh or historical completeness.