Payments Used by UK Real Estate Companies: Market Share (2026)
Detected payments usage across 516 of 354,787 trading UK real estate companies, with PayU the largest detected system at 40.7%.
Among 354,787 trading UK real estate companies, 516 have a detectable Payments system. The market is fairly concentrated: PayU accounts for 40.7% (210), Stripe for 28.1% (145), and PayPal for 25.0% (129), leaving limited space for the rest of the 13 systems detected.
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Size changes the order. PayU leads among companies with under 10 employees, taking 43.2% of 428 detected companies in that band; Stripe leads both the 10–50 employee band, at 40.5% of 84, and the over 50 employee band, at 50.0% of 4.
The long tail is shallow. Worldpay and Authorize.net each appear at 2.9% (15), GoCardless at 2.3% (12), Square at 1.9% (10), Plaid at 1.0% (5), and 5 further systems cover 4 companies between them.
516
real estate with detected Payments
Of 354,787 UK real estate
0.1%
Detection rate
2026
13
Systems detected
In this category
40.7%
Leader share
PayU
UK Real Estate Payments market share
Share of the 516 UK Real Estate with a detectable system. As of June 2026.
Payments compared
| System | UK Real Estate | Share | Median headcount | London share | Typical profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PayU | 210 | 40.7% | 2 | 19.5% | Micro firms, highest detected share |
| Stripe | 145 | 28.1% | 5 | 23.4% | Small teams, larger-band skew |
| PayPal | 129 | 25% | 3 | 24% | Micro firms, broad detected usage |
| Worldpay | 15 | 2.9% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Authorize.net | 15 | 2.9% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| GoCardless | 12 | 2.3% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Square | 10 | 1.9% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Plaid | 5 | 1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Klarna | 5 | 1% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Opayo | 2 | 0.4% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Afterpay | 1 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Google Pay | 1 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Recharge | 1 | 0.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
Systems detected below the page threshold appear with counts only; their full lists are available in the Firmbase app.
Market leader by size
The leading Payments system shifts with company size: among UK Real Estate with under 10 employees, PayU leads at 43.2% of the 428 with a detectable system; among UK Real Estate with 10–50 employees, Stripe leads at 40.5% of the 84 with a detectable system; and among UK Real Estate with over 50 employees, Stripe leads at 50% of the 4 with a detectable system.
Under 10 employees
43.2% of band
This band contains 428 detected companies, mostly very small property operators by headcount. PayU leads with 43.2%, with Stripe and PayPal as the main alternatives.
10–50 employees
40.5% of band
Among 84 detected companies with 10–50 employees, Stripe leads at 40.5%. PayU and PayPal still appear in the competitive set, but the order shifts away from the micro-company pattern.
Over 50 employees
50% of band
Only 4 detected companies sit above 50 employees, so the band is thin. Stripe leads with 50.0%, while the remaining usage is too narrow to read as a settled larger-company pattern.
How Payments usage is detected
Company data
Detected companies are joined to UK Companies House records and XBRL accounts data. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.
Detection
Firmbase crawls the public website of actively-trading UK companies and fingerprints the technologies present: tracking scripts, embedded forms, chat widgets, CMS markers and similar signatures. A company is included in this list when one or more of the technology's signatures are found on its site; closely-related variants of the same product are grouped under one name. Detection covers what is visible on the public web — a company using the technology purely internally, with no website footprint, will not appear. Counts are therefore a conservative floor, not a ceiling.
Freshness
Websites are re-crawled on a rolling basis and the underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear within days of submission. The list and its statistics are regenerated when the detected cohort moves meaningfully. You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.
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