Lettings succession in South East

Name: Lettings business succession in South East
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11,044 of 26,313 lettings companies in South East (42%) have a director aged 60 or over.

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

Companies measured26,313

Director aged 60+11,044

Exposure rate42%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

26,313

Companies measured

11,044

Director 60+

4,953

Director 70+

42%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; lettings nationally runs at 36.2%.

Measure	Companies
Lettings companies in South East measured	26,313
Oldest director aged 60 or over	11,044
Oldest director aged 70 or over	4,953

Of the 11,044 with a director over 60, 546 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Lettings in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	1,347	44.1%
South West	6,097	43.7%
East of England	7,230	38.8%
Wales	2,189	37.5%
Scotland	4,028	37%
Yorkshire & The Humber	4,702	35.9%
East Midlands	4,504	35.6%
North West	7,190	33.4%

Other trades in South East

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	16,025	41.1%
Retail	7,147	27.8%
Investment	6,093	33.4%
IT Services / Consultancy	5,861	25.1%
Other Leisure	5,831	33.2%
Investment / Fund Management	5,134	39.8%
Property Development	4,665	46%
Media	4,032	31.8%

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

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Property pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Lettings succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prop-lettings/south-east/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.