Hurstwood Holdings is a privately owned and managed property investment and development company. Our key focus is commercial property ownership and investment along with new house building, self storage, and commercial development for our own portfolio all over the UK.

Stephen Ashworth took over from his father, John Ashworth in 1994 and over the last 32 years has taken Hurstwood from a development business focused in Rossendale to a nationwide property company with a £400 million portfolio, housing 1,200 commercial tenants across 140 locations having founded 20 companies within the group to facilitate this growth over the last 4 decades.

Sam Ashworth was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in March 2026, taking over the role of his father. With over 12 years at Hurstwood Holdings, Sam has played a key role in expanding Hurstwood’s development portfolio, through its various brands and under Sam’s leadership the group has developed over £150m of quality residential, industrial, office and self-storage space.

Headquartered in Manchester, our dedicated in house team provides a full range of professional services from asset management and development through to lettings and investment, which allows us to react quickly and effectively when making key decisions.

Our people are key to our continued success and we are proud to have several members of the team who have been with us for more than 20 years, over a third of the team for over 10 years and over half of the team have been with us for more than 5 years. Our company history, reputation and loyalty amongst our team members first class and a record we take great pride in.