Real estate activities covers property developers, letting and estate agencies, commercial property firms and property management companies. Sponsored roles tend to be professional, such as chartered surveyors, valuers, property and asset managers and development managers. Sponsorship runs through the Skilled Worker route, with surveying and development roles the most likely to qualify.
There are 3,010 licensed visa sponsors in real estate, with 1,849 live jobs between them. Sponsor figures come from the official Home Office register and are updated daily.
This list puts the sponsors most likely to hire first. To see which of them had the most certificates of sponsorship, read the top visa sponsors in real estate.
In the year to June 2026, the Home Office granted 275 work visas to people applying from outside the UK for jobs with sponsors in real estate. Finance and investment analysts and advisers (SOC 2422) had the most, with 54.
Property developers, commercial agencies, surveying practices and property management firms hold licences in this section. Filter the live register to real estate to see which are hiring.
The Skilled Worker visa applies to eligible property roles offered by a licensed sponsor at the required salary and skill level. Chartered surveyors, valuers and development managers are among the roles most likely to meet the threshold.
Chartered surveying and valuation roles generally sit at the skill level the Skilled Worker route requires, and property firms sponsor them regularly. Estate-agency sales and lettings-negotiator roles often fall below the threshold, so eligibility depends on the specific job and its salary.
| 1139 Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
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| 14 |
| 7 | 1131 Financial managers and directors | 12 |
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| 8 | 2455 Construction project managers and related professionals | 11 |
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| 9 | 1251 Property, housing and estate managers | 9 |
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| 10 | 2440 Business and financial project management professionals | 9 |
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These figures cover every sponsored work route, including seasonal and creative workers. They count the workers themselves, not their dependants, and only people who applied from outside the UK.
The sponsor chooses its own industry, so it may not match the work the visa was for.
Figures from January 2026 onwards are provisional and may still change.
Source: Home Office immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026, table Occ_D02 (not accredited official statistics).