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Real estate agencies in United Kingdom_

As of 4 November 2026, 12,313 real estate agencies companies are based in United Kingdom; 91 are hiring right now and London has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
12,313
Hiring now
91 · 26 new in 30 d
Largest niche
General residential sales lettings agency · 9,265
Top city
London · 753
Parent market
Property & construction · 282,765
12,313real estate agencies companies in United Kingdom
91hiring today
26opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Real estate agencies in United Kingdom, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
General residential sales lettings agency
9,26575%
Cash property buyers
1,0669%
Commercial property & business brokerage
5975%
Residential letting management
5344%
Offplan investment brokerage
3343%
Buyers agents
3263%
Rural & farm property agencies
2412%
Property valuation & appraisal
2362%
Residential landlords
2212%
General property management
1872%
Overseas holiday home agency
1561%
Other real estate agencies
1531%
Property auction houses
911%
Other property management services
851%
General property developers
590%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
2,550 · 1
2-10 employees
8,151 · 19
11-50 employees
1,329 · 28
51-200 employees
207 · 26
201-500 employees
38 · 7
501-1000 employees
16 · 2
1001-5000 employees
18 · 8
5001-10000 employees
1 · 0
10,001+ employees
3 · 0
By city
companiesshare
London
7536%
Glasgow
1131%
Birmingham
1051%
Manchester
1031%
Canary Wharf
701%
Liverpool
671%
Sheffield
671%
Cardiff
661%
Leeds
641%
Edinburgh
621%
Bristol
610%
Leicester
540%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest real estate agencies companies in United Kingdom

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

12,313 real estate agencies companies in United Kingdom.

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04 — What they run

The stack of real estate agencies in United Kingdom

From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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12,313 real estate agencies companies are based in United Kingdom; 91 are hiring right now and London has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/property_construction/united-kingdom/real_estate_agencies)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
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Real estate agencies in United Kingdom: questions

How many real estate agencies companies are there in United Kingdom?

12,313 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Property & construction → Real estate agencies → leaf niches such as general residential sales lettings agency, cash property buyers, commercial property & business brokerage. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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