Lettings: business succession in the UK

Name: Lettings business succession in the UK
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72,421 UK lettings companies — 36.8% — have a director aged 60 or over.

4.3 points above the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured196,544

Director aged 60+72,421

Exposure rate36.8%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

196,544

Companies measured

72,421

With a director 60+

31,624

With a director 70+

36.8%

Exposure rate

Of the 72,421 with a director over 60, 3,771 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Lettings by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
South West	13,614	6,114	44.9%
Northern Ireland	2,881	1,262	43.8%
South East	23,033	9,873	42.9%
East of England	14,198	5,623	39.6%
Wales	5,918	2,320	39.2%
Scotland	10,444	3,930	37.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber	12,908	4,682	36.3%
East Midlands	10,766	3,830	35.6%
North East	5,012	1,725	34.4%
North West	20,950	7,207	34.4%
West Midlands	14,418	4,854	33.7%
London	62,330	20,963	33.6%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Lettings: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prop-lettings/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.