BEATTY DEVELOPMENTS (EAST ANGLIA) LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01804013 · ltd · incorporated 1984-03-28
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with a workable charge structure — clean refinance potential.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Dependent on title and valuation due diligence; standard property risks.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 28.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Credit granting by non-deposit taking finance houses and other specialist consumer credit grantors
Sector: Financial & insurance
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 68320Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis
Investor take
PursueActive trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 28.3y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 28.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (78/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
109 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation
Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →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 accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 500 | 500 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
- 2025-11-12📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-11-11📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-10-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-09-10📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-09-10📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-09-10📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-09-10📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-07-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-06📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2021-07-01➕HATCHER, David appointeddirector
- 2020-12-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-09-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-07-10📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 1998-02-06🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Bradford and Hatcher Limited
- 1984-03-28🏢Company incorporatedAs BEATTY DEVELOPMENTS (EAST ANGLIA) LIMITED
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
30/100
Weak signalLimited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.
SIGNALS
- primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — HATCHER, David (same surname) appointed 2021-07-01. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 84 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 42 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr David Hatcher Individual · British · DOB 07/1986 · age 40 | 75–100% | — | 75-100% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Bertie Charles Hatcher Individual · British · DOB 07/1942 · age 84 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1984-03-28
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64921 — Credit granting by non-deposit taking finance houses and other specialist consumer credit grantors
Registered office
Unit 14 Riduna Park
Station Road, Melton
Woodbridge
Suffolk
IP12 1QT
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-09
Last: 2025-07-26
Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)
Active
Active
HATCHER, David→
Activedirector · ~40y · appointed 2021-07-01
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Active
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Bradford and Hatcher Bradford and Hatcher Limited | Mortgage | 3 properties | 06/02/1998 | — |
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Recent filings (109 total)
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-11-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-29
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-09-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-19