Lettings succession in South East

Name: Lettings business succession in South East
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9,873 of 23,033 lettings companies in South East — 42.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 3rd highest of 12 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured23,033

Director aged 60+9,873

Exposure rate42.9%

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

23,033

Companies measured

9,873

Director 60+

4,452

Director 70+

42.9%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; lettings nationally runs at 36.8%.

Measure	Companies
Lettings companies in South East measured	23,033
Oldest director aged 60 or over	9,873
Oldest director aged 70 or over	4,452

Of the 9,873 with a director over 60, 528 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Lettings in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	6,114	44.9%
Northern Ireland	1,262	43.8%
East of England	5,623	39.6%
Wales	2,320	39.2%
Scotland	3,930	37.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber	4,682	36.3%
East Midlands	3,830	35.6%
North East	1,725	34.4%

Other trades in South East

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	14,455	41.6%
Retail	6,015	26.7%
IT Services / Consultancy	5,392	25.7%
Investment	5,385	33.7%
Other Leisure	5,364	33.2%
Investment / Fund Management	4,380	40.3%
Property Development	4,170	46.3%
Media	3,602	31.6%

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

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

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.