Three live sites around Bolton and Chorley, between 34 and 88 plots each
Local authority planning portal + warranty registrations
Use cases
Find residential property developers and housebuilder decision makers
Most of them are small builders with a handful of completions a year, often trading through a company set up for one scheme. Search by plots, tenure, planning stage or region, and Causo reads local authority planning portals, HM Land Registry, Companies House, NHBC registrations and the EPC register scheme by scheme, then shows you the evidence behind every match.
Run your first search10,000 builders and developers register new homes with NHBC each year
How to find residential developers by plots, tenure or region
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Cheshire developer, two consented schemes of 26 and 61 homes, nine staff
Planning portal + Companies House
Family housebuilder, about 45 completions a year across Greater Manchester
Warranty provider registration + EPC register
Illustrative example. The source types are the ones Causo genuinely reads for this market.
Where the data on residential developers comes from
- Local authority planning portals and the Planning InspectorateApplications, consents, conditions, reserved matters and appeal decisions
- HM Land RegistryTitle and ownership of the site, plus Price Paid records for completed homes
- Companies HouseScheme companies, group structure, directors and filed accounts
- NHBC, Premier Guarantee and LABC WarrantyBuilder registration and plots warranted before the first sale
- Homes England and the Greater London AuthorityAffordable Homes Programme partners, grant allocations and delivery data
- Building Safety Regulator and the EPC registerHigher-risk building registrations and evidence that homes are finished
- RICS, British Property Federation, Home Builders FederationMembership, build to rent pipelines and residential asset manager profiles
- Indeed, Greenhouse, LeverLand buyer, site manager and sales negotiator roles as a timing signal
- Dun & BradstreetFirmographics and corporate linkage where available
- Plus many moreNo fixed provider list. If the answer lives somewhere else, the agents read that instead.
Ask anything about a residential developer
Every result is a starting point, not an endpoint. Ask a follow-up about any developer on your list in plain English and the agents go back out and read for it, then answer with the sources they used.
How many homes have they actually completed?
Answer112 across four schemes in the past three years, and the most recent phase is still selling.
SourcesPlanning history + EPC register + HM Land Registry Price Paid
Do they build it themselves or appoint a main contractor?
AnswerMain contractor. The warranty is registered to the developer and the site notice names a separate construction company.
SourcesWarranty registration + planning portal site notices
Has the site started, or has it stalled?
AnswerStalled. Outline consent was granted 14 months ago, no reserved matters have been submitted and no plots are registered with a warranty provider.
SourcesPlanning register + warranty registrations + site hiring
Why residential developers are missing from B2B databases
2,500small housebuilders left in the UK, down from more than 12,000 in 1988Home Builders Federation, 2017
Contact databases are assembled from what companies publish about themselves: professional profiles, funding rounds, tech stacks, hiring pages. Residential development is close to the opposite kind of business. The developer is the party that owns or controls the land, holds the planning consent and carries the risk on the scheme, and that party is very often a company incorporated for a single site, with a handful of directors and a marketing budget that goes entirely into selling the homes rather than the company. It is not the contractor building the scheme, which is a separate firm with its own trade presence, and bought lists merge the two constantly because both sit under a broad construction heading. What a developer does produce is a paper trail. A planning application is validated and published with the applicant and the agent named on it. A title is registered at HM Land Registry. Plots are registered with NHBC or another warranty provider before the first sale. An EPC is lodged for every completed home. Councils publish the first, HM Land Registry publishes the second, and none of those are where a profile-derived database looks.
Figures as of August 2026.
Apollo vs ZoomInfo vs Causo for residential developer leads
| Apollo / ZoomInfo | Buying a list | Causo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developers trading through a company set up for one scheme | Largely absent | Absent | Found through planning records and Companies House |
| Telling the developer apart from the main contractor | One "construction" label | Routinely mixed | Read from the consent and the title |
| Filtering on "50 to 150 plots consented" | No such field | No such field | Expressed in plain English |
| Knowing whether a consented scheme has started on site | Not tracked | Date the list was compiled | Read at the moment you search |
| Reaching a land or development director | Usually a head-office generic address | Often bounced | Named role, verified address |
Frequently asked questions.
Start from the planning system rather than a database. Every residential scheme leaves a validated application on a local authority planning portal with the applicant and the agent named on it, and the site itself has a registered title at HM Land Registry. Causo reads those alongside Companies House, NHBC and other warranty registrations and the EPC register, so a developer trading through a single scheme company with no marketing site is as findable as a national housebuilder.
The developer owns or controls the land, holds the planning consent, funds the scheme and sells or lets the finished homes. The contractor is the firm hired to build it, and on many schemes that is a completely separate company. They appear differently in the record: the consent and the registered title name the developer, while the site notice, the trade accreditations and the subcontract chain name the contractor. Bought lists routinely merge the two because both sit under a broad construction heading.
Those databases are assembled largely from professional profiles and web signals that skew heavily toward software and services. Residential development sits at the other end of that distribution: around 10,000 builders and developers register new homes with NHBC each year, most of them small firms, and many trade through a company incorporated for one scheme. There is no profile to scrape, so the company never enters the database and no filter will surface it.
Yes, in plain English. Neither is a field in any contact database, so Causo works them out from the application documents on local authority planning portals, decision notices, reserved matters submissions and warranty registrations rather than looking them up.
The registered title at HM Land Registry names the proprietor, and the planning application for the same site names the applicant, which is often a differently named company in the same group. Price Paid data shows what was paid for the land and for completed homes on it. Causo reads all three together and resolves the owning company to its group and directors at Companies House, so you get the trading name, the scheme company and the people behind both.
The developer, why it matched, the evidence behind that with its source, and the decision maker with a verified email address. You can then ask follow-up questions about any result, such as how many homes it has completed or whether a consented site has started on site, and get answers with sources attached.
Yes. Build to rent and PRS operators and the asset managers running residential portfolios sit in the same primary sources, plus a few of their own. The British Property Federation and Savills publish a quarterly count of the UK build to rent pipeline, which passed 147,000 completed homes at the first quarter of 2026, the Building Safety Regulator holds registrations for higher-risk residential buildings, and RICS lists regulated firms. Causo reads those alongside planning portals and HM Land Registry.
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