Crest Nicholson Holdings Plc is a real estate company, which engages in the development of apartments and townhouses to traditional detached family homes and complex regeneration schemes. The company is headquartered in Chertsey, Surrey and currently employs 704 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2013-02-13. The firm has seven housebuilding divisions: Southwest, South, Chiltern, Midlands, Eastern, and Yorkshire. The division has two primary functions, which is building and establishing strategic relationships with registered providers and the private rented sector to enable delivery of crest Nicholson homes through different tenures. The second function is to acquire, secure and progress strategic land through key planning stages. The firm also operates a dedicated Partnerships and Strategic Land division which provides expertise in working with its key partners and managing the acquisition of strategic land. The firm's subsidiaries include Bath Riverside Estate Management Company Limited, Bath Riverside Liberty Management Company Limited, Brightwells Residential 1 Company Limited, Building 7 Harbourside Management Company Limited, Clevedon Developments Limited, among others.