Merged dataset containing land owned by or leased from SNH. Excludes small parcels of land owned by SNH attached to urban offices such as SNH HQ at Great Glen House, Inverness. For a list of properties and land visit https://www.nature.scot/doc/naturescot-property-register For more information visit https://www.nature.scot/about-naturescot/our-work/community-empowerment-and-scotlands-environment/public-register-land-holdings

The UK real estate services industry is a substantial market, valued at £32.45 billion in 2025, exhibiting a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 3.00% from 2025 to 2033. This steady growth reflects several key drivers. Increased urbanization and population growth continue to fuel demand for residential and commercial properties, driving the need for comprehensive real estate services. Furthermore, the ongoing evolution of technology, particularly in areas like proptech and data analytics, is enhancing efficiency and transparency within the industry. Government initiatives focused on infrastructure development and affordable housing also contribute positively to market expansion. However, economic uncertainty, particularly interest rate fluctuations and potential regulatory changes, could pose challenges to the industry's sustained growth trajectory. The competitive landscape is characterized by a mix of large publicly listed companies like Hammerson, British Land, and Berkeley Group Holdings, alongside smaller specialized firms and housing associations like Bridgewater Housing Association Ltd and Sanctuary Housing Association. The industry is segmented by service type (residential brokerage, commercial leasing, property management, etc.) and geographic region, with London and other major cities generally commanding higher valuations. Looking ahead to 2033, the projected market size will likely exceed £44 billion, driven by consistent demand and ongoing technological advancements. While the CAGR of 3% reflects a moderate growth rate, it is considered relatively stable in comparison to other sectors. The industry's resilience stems from the fundamental need for housing and commercial spaces, making it less susceptible to short-term economic shocks. However, companies must adapt to evolving consumer preferences, particularly embracing digital solutions and sustainable practices to maintain a competitive edge and capitalise on the long-term growth opportunities within the UK real estate market. The segment analysis, though not provided, is crucial to understanding market share distribution and specific growth patterns across sub-sectors. Key drivers for this market are: Improvements in Infrastructure and New Development, Population Growth and Demographic Changes. Potential restraints include: Housing Shortages, Increasing Awareness towards Environmental Issues. Notable trends are: Increasing in the United Kingdom House Prices.

Data showing the location of the GLA Group's land and property holdings and development opportunities. This data is available to view interactively on the GLA Land and Property Database.

Data showing the location of the GLA Group's land and property holdings and development opportunities.

This data is available to view interactively on the GLA Land and Property Database.

The UK commercial real estate market, valued at approximately £149.67 million in 2025, exhibits a robust growth trajectory, projected to expand at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 4.31% from 2025 to 2033. This growth is fueled by several key drivers. Increasing urbanization and population density within major UK cities like London, Manchester, and Birmingham are creating heightened demand for office, retail, and industrial spaces. The burgeoning e-commerce sector is significantly boosting demand for logistics and warehousing facilities, further propelling market expansion. Government initiatives promoting sustainable development and infrastructure improvements are also contributing positively. However, economic uncertainties, fluctuating interest rates, and potential supply chain disruptions pose challenges to sustained growth. The market segmentation reveals a diversified landscape with offices, retail, and industrial & logistics sectors holding significant shares. The hospitality sector, while facing its own unique challenges, shows resilience, and the "other types" category, encompassing schools and recreational areas, indicates growth opportunities within specialized commercial real estate niches. Key players such as Land Securities Group PLC, Segro PLC, and British Land are strategically positioned to benefit from these market dynamics. Their expertise in property management, development, and investment strategies enables them to effectively navigate the evolving market landscape. The forecast period (2025-2033) suggests a consistent upward trend, albeit with potential fluctuations reflecting broader economic conditions. The diverse regional distribution of commercial real estate across the UK, encompassing London and other major cities, indicates opportunities for regional specialization and targeted investment. While challenges exist, the underlying strength of the UK economy and its attractiveness as a business hub support a positive outlook for the commercial real estate market over the long term. The relatively high CAGR suggests a healthy growth environment, particularly if factors such as improved infrastructure and ongoing investment in sustainable practices are maintained. This indicates considerable potential for investors and developers keen to capitalise on the ongoing expansion and diversification of the UK commercial real estate sector. Recent developments include: October 2023: British Land received a resolution to grant planning permission for an approximately 140,000 sq. ft multi-level last-mile logistics scheme on Mandela Way, Southwark. This project represents the latest addition to British Land’s 2.9 million sq. ft pipeline. Situated near the junction of New Kent Road, Old Kent Road, and Tower Bridge Road, the site will serve as a last-mile logistics hub for Southwark and central London., July 2023: British Land and Landsec formulated a comprehensive set of recommendations aimed at regenerating UK towns and cities. Their goal is to stimulate more growth, create additional homes, and generate more job opportunities by enhancing how the planning system supports brownfield regeneration. As major players behind some of Britain’s most significant regeneration projects, including Landsec’s 24-acre Mayfield neighborhood in central Manchester and British Land and AustralianSuper’s 53-acre Canada Water development in London, these property companies bring extensive experience in large-scale, complex urban developments. The insights gained from such projects have been applied and refined in their latest paper.. Key drivers for this market are: Growth in the Country's Logistics Sector and Warehouse Space, Increasing Demand for Co-working Office Spaces; Increasing Infrastructure Investments. Potential restraints include: Growth in the Country's Logistics Sector and Warehouse Space, Increasing Demand for Co-working Office Spaces; Increasing Infrastructure Investments. Notable trends are: Office Segment Showing Significant Growth in the Market.

A list of central and local government land in England, which may not be registered with HM Land Registry (HMLR).

HMLR has created this dataset for the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) by combining HMLR freehold polygon data with the public sector ownership data currently openly available from the Office of Government Property.

The dataset is not definitive or complete as not all central and local government data is captured, and/or available, and the two datasets are not held in the same format. The list is therefore indicative rather than definitive.

Intellectual Property Rights

The dataset includes address data processed against Ordnance Survey’s AddressBase Premium product and incorporates Royal Mail’s PAF® database (Address Data). Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey permit your use of Address Data:

• for personal and/or non-commercial use
• in relation to the analysis of public sector land and property.

If you want to use the Address Data in any other way, you must contact Royal Mail. Email

Address data

The following fields comprise the address data included in the dataset

• Property Name
• Street No
• Road
• Town
• Postcode

Dataset showing land and property in the ownership of Sheffield City Council (SCC). The land and property parcels included in this dataset may be subject, in whole, or part, to third party interests, for example, Tenancies, Leases, Legal Easements etc. The accuracy of this dataset cannot be fully guaranteed and is subject to change. It is to be viewed only as an indication of ownership. The current dataset has not been updated for approximately 1 year.

GIS polygon dataset identifying the freehold land and properties owned by Brentwood Borough Council. The information includes the property address, Land Registry title number, Brentwood Borough Council deed packet number, date of digitisation and area in hectares. Digitised at 1:1250 scale

Research hypothesis was to use the Registers of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire (held at North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton, England) to advance knowledge about women's involvement with property transfer and the wider property market in the 18th & 19th centuries. Registers began in 1736 and ceased in 1970; there are 89 Index Ledgers and 2,328 Deeds Registers. The system for recording data changed in 1885 so one Index Ledger was selected from pre/ post this date and 100 years apart to incorporate impact of Marriage Acts. Stage 1 - Two Index Ledgers were transcribed in full: 1) Index of Lands Vol 9 (1784-90) covers a seven-year period and contains 6,868 unique transactions (31,966 lines); and 2) Index of Lands 1885-1889 covers a five-year period and contains 14,481 unique transactions (52,741 lines). Each line represents a person's name. Core data from Index showed Township, unique reference and names of parties, but the 18th century Index Ledger did not show date of transaction or all parties. To analyse by gender this information was required so was added by using the Deeds Registers.

Several Deeds Registers were being used at any one time and covered a variety of time periods. This dataset sets out which Deeds Registers were applicable to 1784-1790 period and shows which entries were removed to make data suitable for 1785-1789 comparison with 19th century data. Provided in Excel and .csv formats.

Hong Kong Land Holdings LD was the leading real estate company on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as of April 2023, with a total market capitalization value of nearly ***** billion British pounds. This was followed by Segro Plc and the Land Securities Group Plc, with values of approximately ** billion and **** billion British pounds respectively. In the same month, the total market cap of all real estate companies trading on the LSE was close to *** billion British pounds.

SEGRO was the leading real estate company in the United Kingdom (UK) as of October 15, 2024, with a market capitalization amounting to ***** billion U.S. dollars. The Berkeley Group and Land Securities Group followed, with market caps of **** and **** billion U.S. dollars, respectively.

INSPIRE Cadastral Parcels is a dataset maintained and produced by the Registers of Scotland to comply with the INSPIRE Directive. It is a sub-set of the Cadastral Map and contains the location of ownership polygons at ground level in Scotland. The polygons contained within the dataset are shapes that show the position and indicative extent of ownership of the earth’s surface for each registered property. Each cadastral parcel has a unique identifier called the inspire id that relates to a registered title on Scotland’s Land Register. The extent of rights and land contained within a title registered in the land register cannot be established from the cadastral parcel. For more detailed information on land and property data in Scotland you can search free at https://scotlis.ros.gov.uk/.

Research hypothesis was to use the Registers of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire (held at North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton, England) to advance knowledge about women's involvement with property transfer and the wider property market in the 18th & 19th centuries. Registers began in 1736 and ceased in 1970; there are 89 Index Ledgers and 2,328 Deeds Registers. The system for recording data changed in 1885 so one Index Ledger was selected from pre/ post this date and 100 years apart to incorporate impact of Marriage Acts. Stage 1 - Two Index Ledgers were transcribed in full: 1) Index of Lands Vol 9 (1784-90) covers a seven-year period and contains 6,868 unique transactions (31,966 lines); and 2) Index of Lands 1885-1889 covers a five-year period and contains 14,481 unique transactions (52,741 lines). Each line represents a person's name. Core data from Index showed Township, unique reference and names of parties, but the 18th century Index Ledger did not show date of transaction or all parties. To analyse by gender this information was required so was added by using the Deeds Registers. Information from the individual Deeds Registers was then used to add to the core datasets: Stage 2 - The gender of all parties ('male', 'female' and 'not applicable' (for businesses) was added. Stage 3 - The usual residence, occupation (if any), marital status and any details of family relationships or inheritance rights of every women was added. Stage 4 - The 18th century dataset was then reduced to a five-year period covering 1785-1789 ONLY to provide a direct comparison with the 19th century dataset. Comparative analysis by: gender, marital status and number of transactions. Each transaction has a unique reference number but can contain multiple parties and cover more than one township. To identify the true number of transactions, the data had to be controlled for these factors. A control for uniqueness was also required for those individuals and organisations involved in multiple transactions and to avoid assuming that everyone with the same name was actually the same person. Where women were involved, additional data e.g. marital status, residence or family relationships was used to differentiate between like women. 1785-1789 findings include: distinctive patterns of female property involvement by gender and marital status. Married women represent more than 50% of female transactions despite having little, if any, legal status (coverture). Although 2,086 women transacted during this period, only 1.39% did so without husband's involvement; this increased to 45.47% by 1885-1889 period, reinforcing that Married Women's Property Acts were beginning to make an impact, treating married women as if 'feme sole'. More parity of involvement across marital status groups in 1885-1889 data, with spinsters' involvement increasing the most (from 17.58% to 31.37%). 1885-1889 dataset includes additional analysis by type of transaction and by township.

The financial and operational success of property development markets depends on a range of socio-economic factors, such as property values, market sentiment and credit conditions. Building project developers' revenue is forecast to slide at a compound annual rate of 3.2% to £35.8 billion over the five years through 2024-25. The economic shock caused by the pandemic had a devastating impact on property development market in 2020-21. Severe supply chain and market disruption caused sentiment to wane and transaction activity fell, while property values initially depreciated and rental fee income stalled. Revenue rebounded in 2021-22, aided by low interest rates, house price inflation and a stronger than anticipated initial economic recovery from the pandemic. Nonetheless, revenue remained below pre-pandemic levels as growth was hindered by a further net deficit on revaluation of assets and lower rental income in office and brick-and-mortar retail markets. The fallout from the pandemic has caused developers to re-align investment towards lower-risk real estate markets which are likely to be more resilient to price shocks. Inaflationary pressures and rising interest rates spurred a further hit to portfolio valuations, discouraging developers from pursuing new developments. Revenue is forecast to grow by 2.5% in the current year, as interest rate cuts spur renewed growth in property values. Revenue is slated to climb at a compound annual rate of 1.3% to reach £38.2 billion over the five years through 2029-30. Following recent interest rate cuts, more stable economic conditions are set to continue to support improved sentiment in the near-term, spurring developers to pursue new ventures. Opportunities for growth are set to be most prominent in high-yield office markets and the technology sector, with growing use of artificial intelligence set to drive demand for the development and construction of data centres. Loosened planning policy is set to drive momentum in residential real estate markets, though more will need to be done for the government to achieve ambitious housebuilding targets.

Land and Property owned by Bristol City Council

Land and Property Extents expressed as polygons as recorded through the Allerdale Land Terrier. Extents captured from OS Mastermap from legal title plans

The number of real estate companies trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) declined gradually between 2020 and 2025. In May 2025, the number of companies amounted to **, down from ** in May 2024. The largest real estate company by market capitalization was Hong Kong Land Holdings LD, followed by Segro Plc.

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are attractive investment vehicles, as they are exempt from corporate tax. A reduction in REIT requirements and restrictions has encouraged new entrants, although many were hit hard by the retail crash during the COVID-19 outbreak. Revenue is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 0.4% over the five years through 2024-25 to £8.5 billion including estimated growth of 11.8% in 2024-25, while the average profit is expected to be 19.3%. As many REITs own some form of retail and office property, lockdowns and social distancing measures during the pandemic meant the REIT industry lost revenue. Many REITs were forced to sell assets to stay afloat, threatening a spiral in retail property value, with shopping centre giant Intu Properties collapsing into administration. While many REITs with exposure to warehouses performed well in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak amid the e-commerce boom, the industry contended with significant headwinds like rising interest rates and rock-bottom confidence in 2022-23, hurting asset valuations and stifling investment activity. Macroeconomic conditions improved somewhat in 2023-24, with both business and consumer confidence picking up thanks to more optimistic growth prospects and stabilising interest, supporting rental income. However, the higher base rate environment has posed financing challenges, resulting in REITs finding alternative sources of finances like share placements to capitalise on low property values. In 2024-25, REITs have welcomed interest rate cuts, easing financing pressures and lifting asset values. This will support balance sheets, driving investment activity and revenue growth. REIT revenue is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 5.6% over the five years through 2029-30 to £11.2 billion. The hike in corporation tax in April 2023 has resulted in investors looking towards REITs due to their tax advantages, positioning REITs for significant investment in the coming years and driving revenue growth. REITs will welcome solid government support in the form of regulatory changes aiming at making the industry more competitive. Technological innovation will also shape the industry. Most notably, proptech solutions are being introduced, which improve property management and operating efficiency, supporting profit.

The RoS Cadastral Parcels (INSPIRE) dataset is a maintained and produced by the Registers of Scotland to comply with the INSPIRE Directive. The polygons contained within the dataset are shapes that show the position and indicative extent of ownership of the earth’s surface for each registered property in Scotland.Each cadastral parcel has a unique identifier called the INSPIRE ID which relates to a registered title in the Land Register. The data can be used in a geographic information system (GIS) to view and query title extents. For reasons described in further sections of this document, the extent of rights and land contained within a registered title cannot be established from the cadastral parcel.

Research hypothesis was to use the Registers of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire (held at North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton, England) to advance knowledge about women's involvement with property transfer and the wider property market in the 18th & 19th centuries. Registers began in 1736 and ceased in 1970; there are 89 Index Ledgers and 2,328 Deeds Registers. The system for recording data changed in 1885 so one Index Ledger was selected from pre/ post this date and 100 years apart to incorporate impact of Marriage Acts. Stage 1 - Two Index Ledgers were transcribed in full: 1) Index of Lands Vol 9 (1784-90) covers a seven-year period and contains 6,868 unique transactions (31,966 lines); and 2) Index of Lands 1885-1889 covers a five-year period and contains 14,481 unique transactions (52,741 lines). Each line represents a person's name. Core data from Index showed Township, unique reference and names of parties, but the 18th century Index Ledger did not show date of transaction or all parties. To analyse by gender this information was required so was added by using the Deeds Registers. Information from the individual Deeds Registers was then used to add to the core datasets: Stage 2 - The gender of all parties ('male', 'female' and 'not applicable' (for businesses) was added. Stage 3 - The usual residence, occupation (if any), marital status and any details of family relationships or inheritance rights of every women was added. Stage 4 - The 18th century dataset was then reduced to a five-year period covering 1785-1789 ONLY to provide a direct comparison with the 19th century dataset. Comparative analysis by: gender, marital status and number of transactions.

1785-1789 findings include: distinctive patterns of female property involvement by gender and marital status. Married women represent more than 50% of female transactions despite having little, if any, legal status (coverture). Although 2,086 women transacted during this period, only 1.39% did so without husband's involvement; this increased to 45.47% by 1885-1889 period, reinforcing that Married Women's Property Acts were beginning to make an impact, treating married women as if 'feme sole'. More parity of involvement across marital status groups in 1885-1889 data, with spinsters' involvement increasing the most (from 17.58% to 31.37%). Additional analysis undertaken on 1885-1889 data based on 'Type of Transaction' and 'Township'.

** This dataset represents the 7,088 women named in the Index Ledger - sorted by Marital Status.**