31 ARUNDEL GARDENS MANAGEMENT CO. LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01707730 · ltd · incorporated 1983-03-18

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£6.5k

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Residents property management

Sector: Activities of households

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

7 officers (6 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

9 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

97 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £6,514

Cash YoY

+1%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£8k

~ YoY

Net Worth

£7k

↑ 320% YoY

Current Assets

£13k

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£6.5k	£1.6k
Current assets	£12.9k	—
Cash	£7.9k	£7.8k
Debtors	£5.0k	—
Net assets	£6.5k	£1.6k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2025-10-03
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2024-12-31
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2023-12-15
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2022-11-07
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2021-09-29
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2020-10-26
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2019-12-05
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2018-12-17
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accounts · AA
2018-06-26
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2018-06-26
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officers · AP01
2017-12-18
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2017-07-18
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DI BENEDETTO, Brigitte appointed
director
2017-07-18
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DI BENEDETTO, Richard appointed
director
2016-12-20
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accounts · AA
2015-12-18
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accounts · AA
2015-12-13
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2014-07-14
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WADDELL, Justine appointed
director
1997-12-23
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NELSON, David Brian appointed
director
1997-12-23
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WALL, Patrick Anthony resigned
director
1994-02-12
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WALL, Patrick Anthony appointed
director
1983-03-18
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Company incorporated
As 31 ARUNDEL GARDENS MANAGEMENT CO. LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 43 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Caroline Georgette Nelson Individual · British · DOB 06/1951 · age 75	50–75%	—	50-75% shares	01/11/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1983-03-18

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC98000 — Residents property management

Registered office

Flat A

31 Arundel Gardens

London

W11 2LW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-18

Last: 2026-05-04

Officers (6 active · 1 resigned)

NELSON, David Brian→

secretary

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Active

DI BENEDETTO, Brigitte→

director · ~62y · appointed 2017-07-18

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Active

DI BENEDETTO, Richard→

director · ~64y · appointed 2017-07-18

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Active

NELSON, Caroline Georgette→

director · ~75y

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Active

NELSON, David Brian→

director · ~75y · appointed 1997-12-23

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Active

WADDELL, Justine→

director · ~51y · appointed 2014-07-14

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Active

WALL, Patrick Anthony→

director · ~65y · appointed 1994-02-12 · resigned 1997-12-23

Resigned

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