The Datum Report

Occupation 1251 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Property, housing and estate managers

Half of full-time property, housing and estate managers in the UK earn more than £43,365 a year, and half earn less.

Property, housing and estate managers manage shopping centres, residential areas, offices and private estates, arrange for the sale, purchase, rental and leasing of property on behalf of clients and employers, and provide facilities management services for businesses

How people enter it

There are no formal academic requirements, although entrants usually possess a BTEC/SQA award, a degree or equivalent qualification. Apprenticeships are available in some areas. Many employers expect the attainment of membership to a relevant professional body.

What the work involves

• determines staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term requirements
• manages general upkeep, maintenance and security of the estate’s amenities
• makes sure that the amenities meet health and safety standards and legal requirements
• oversees the support services of a business, such as catering, IT, utilities and physical environment
• advises on energy efficiency
• discusses client’s requirements and may advise client on the purchase of property and land for investment and other purposes
• conducts or arranges for structural surveys of properties and undertakes any necessary valuations of property or agricultural land, and deals with grant and subsidy applications
• negotiates land or property purchases and sales or leases and tenancy agreements and arranges legal formalities with solicitors, building societies and other parties
• maintains or arranges for the maintenance of estate accounts and records and produces financial forecasts
• acts as arbiter in disputes between landlord and tenant and ensures that both fulfil their legal obligations
• examines and assesses housing applications, advises on rent levels, investigates complaints and liaises with tenants’ association and social workers to resolve any family problems

Also called

Estate manager · Facilities manager · Housing manager · Landlord (property management) · Property manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for property, housing and estate managers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 10 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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