Find the offices before the desks go in
An office is furnished in the fit-out weeks, before anyone sits down, and a business that moves its registered office from one business address to another has a move behind it or ahead of it. We tell you which premises are at that point, and the job each one points to.
Why timing matters
Companies House publishes a change of registered office as it's filed, and we read each one at both ends: from one business address to another is a relocation, from an accountant's or a formation agent's address to premises of its own is often a first office. The care regulators' registers, Ofsted's register and the NHS lists show a clinic, care home, nursery or practice the week it registers at premises that have just been fitted out, the Department for Education's register shows a school before it opens, the councils' rates lists show a new ratepayer with the unit's rateable value, and the public contracts register shows who has just won building or refurbishment work, with a building to furnish at handover. We read them every day, grade each row for an office relocation desk and tag it with the job it points to: an office move, a first office furnished from scratch, a fit-out before a unit opens, a refit on a change of owner, or furniture for a school or a site won under contract. Every employer has to give its staff suitable workstations and seating (regulation 11 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992).
What we tell you
The moments that matter for you:
| Coming | A business is about to open: a licence applied for, a unit being fitted out, a new company set up to trade from the address. |
| Just moved in | A business has started at premises that had nobody in them: a new ratepayer, a new food business, a newly registered care home, nursery, surgery or garage. |
| Changed hands | A new operator at premises that were already trading: a pub, shop or care home under new ownership, often keeping the old name on the door. |
How to use it
Work the relocations and the office trades first, then the clinics, schools and large sites. The job column says what you'd offer before you ring; the reason column says why now, and the floor area and rateable value say how big the move is.
Coverage
The national registers cover every council in Great Britain. On top of those, 35 councils publish a business rates list we can use and 10 a licensing register (as of 25 September 2026), and we add councils as they give permission. Northern Ireland isn't in the file yet. Where the data comes from.
Built for selling within the rules: businesses not people, every row with its source and date, and nothing your team can't explain to someone who asks. How it's done.
Had your free fortnight? Subscribe here and the files carry on: a region for £250 a month, and you can stop at any month's end. You choose the region and what you sell at the checkout.
Questions
Do you know how many desks they have, or when they're moving?
No. We see the premises event and its date: a registered office moved, a site registered or opened, a unit changing hands. The floor area comes from the premises' energy certificate and the rateable value from the council's list, where either fits, and the staff count from the latest filed accounts, a year or more behind. The move date is yours to ask.
How is this different from buying a list?
A list is a snapshot of businesses that exist. This is what changed yesterday: who moved in, who took over, who left. A bought list can't tell you any of that, and it's out of date the day it arrives.
How do you find them?
From public registers, read every day and kept, so we can see when something changes at an address. The sources are on the sources page. How we put them together is ours, and we don't publish it.
Is there personal data in it?
Almost none. The file is about businesses and premises: no director names, no home addresses. Where a business publishes only a named address on its own website, the daily file carries it in a marked column, as the privacy notice says; a sample never does. Where a phone number or a mailbox is public, we say where it came from.
Can we email or ring them?
Limited companies and LLPs can be emailed without prior consent under PECR, if you say who you are and give a way to opt out. Phone numbers are yours to screen against the TPS and CTPS before you ring.
What does it cost?
£250 a month for a region, or £1,000 a month for the whole of Great Britain, monthly, and you can stop at any month's end. The first two weeks are free, so your team can try it on real rows before paying anything.
Is the file exclusive?
Not the whole file, but you can have a head start. First look sends your trade's new rows for your region to you each morning, a working day before anyone else in your trade gets them, for one firm per trade and region: £375 a month for a region, or £1,500 a month for Great Britain, on the same terms.
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