Family-owned UK construction, property services and residential development group, established in 1897 by Edward Wates as a Streatham housebuilder.

Wates Group was established in 1897 by Edward Wates as a Streatham housebuilder and is now in its fourth generation of family ownership, headquartered in Leatherhead, Surrey. It works across construction, property services and residential development for public and private clients, and describes itself as a strategic supplier to the Department for Education, having built nearly 250 schools, while also maintaining more than half a million social homes a year and building for the Ministry of Justice prison estate.