Commercial-intent guides for company ownership checks, CCOD workflows, and legal due diligence in England and Wales.
How to export corporate property ownership data as CSV or JSON, structure it for portfolio analysis, and handle result limits and de-duplication.
Read the guideHow to find property connected to a named person through their Companies House appointments, and why a directorship is not ownership.
Read the guideWhat is genuinely free on GOV.UK, what the £3 official copy buys, and the one gap free sources leave: you cannot search the register by owner.
Read the guideHM Land Registry has no official company-name search. Here is why, and how to run one using the CCOD and OCOD datasets it publishes instead.
Read the guideRegister addresses are free text, not postal addresses. How to search by address or postcode effectively, and handle flats, estates and unnamed land.
Read the guideHow to find out who owns a property in England and Wales from the address, and why corporate owners are far easier to trace than individuals.
Read the guideA field-by-field reference for HM Land Registry CCOD data: what each column means, how to read tenure and price paid, and what the dataset leaves out.
Read the guideHow to identify the corporate owner of a commercial property in England and Wales, and why a single building returns several correct answers.
Read the guideCompanies House records who a company is; HM Land Registry records what it owns. A side-by-side comparison, and how to combine both registers.
Read the guideHow to run a company property search in the UK using HM Land Registry CCOD data: which search to run first, and how to confirm a match is genuinely yours.
Read the guideHow we source, normalise, index and refresh HM Land Registry CCOD and OCOD data, how company matching works, and the limitations worth citing.
Read the guideA step-by-step method for finding every property a UK company owns, from building the entity list at Companies House to exporting the matched titles.
Read the guideFor journalists and researchers using HM Land Registry ownership data: what it supports, how to cite it correctly, and the caveats to publish with it.
Read the guideEvery guide answers a legal or due-diligence question, then moves the reader into a company ownership search.