GAERLLWYDD SETTLED ESTATES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01099032 · ltd · incorporated 1973-02-27
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with leveraged stack — refinance / partial-release angle.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Multiple lenders to manage; inter-creditor friction and partial-release cost possible.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 49.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Sept 2024
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Buying and selling of own real estate
Sector: Real estate
Investor take
Pursue
Property-backed borrower with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 87). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 49.8y

50/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 49.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
92 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Average employees00

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-06-28
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-01-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2020-10-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-06-26
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  9. 2020-06-26
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    Charge satisfied #2
  10. 2020-04-14
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  11. 2020-04-14
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2020-02-26
    VAN REES, Giles Tomos George appointed
    director
  13. 2020-02-26
    VAN REES, Hugo Lewis Mortimer appointed
    director
  14. 2019-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-07-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-03-23
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  17. 2017-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  18. 2016-04-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  19. 1992-12-14
    VAN SCALES, Stephanie Isabelle resigned
    director
  20. 1992-03-27
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  21. 1982-03-15
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  22. 1982-03-15
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  23. 1976-09-27
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 1973-02-27
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As GAERLLWYDD SETTLED ESTATES LIMITED

Owner dependency

63/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 87 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 87 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 53 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Colonel Timothy John Van Rees
Individual · British · DOB 09/1939 · age 87
sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1973-02-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

C/O Wj James & Co Bishop House
10 Wheat Street
Brecon
Powys
LD3 7DG
Wales

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-18
Last: 2025-12-04

Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)

VAN REES, Diana
secretary
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Active
VAN REES, Diana
director · ~85y
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Active
VAN REES, Giles Tomos George
director · ~51y · appointed 2020-02-26
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Active
VAN REES, Hugo Lewis Mortimer
director · ~50y · appointed 2020-02-26
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Active
VAN REES, Timothy John, Colonel
director · ~87y
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Active
VAN SCALES, Stephanie Isabelle
director · ~82y · resigned 1992-12-14
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Mortgage deed1 property27/03/1992
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Mortgage1 property15/03/1982
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Mortgage1 property15/03/198226/06/2020
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property27/09/1976
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Recent filings (92 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-30
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2020-06-26
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-04-14