B.B.D. PROPERTY AND LEISURE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03442616 · ltd · incorporated 1997-10-01
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
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
£73.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
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 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 24.3y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
73 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.

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Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £73,325
Net assets shrinking
Down £13,752 YoY
Cash YoY
-29%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£94k
↓ 29% YoY
Net Worth
£73k
↓ 16% YoY
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£26k£52k£79k£105k£131kJun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Total assets£73.3k£87.1k
Current assets—£131.1k
Cash£93.7k£131.1k
Net assets£73.3k£87.1k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-10-29
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  3. 2023-12-15
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  4. 2023-03-01
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  5. 2021-11-29
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  6. 2020-12-31
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  7. 2020-03-13
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  8. 2019-02-27
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  9. 2018-02-26
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  10. 2017-02-13
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-04-04
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2015-09-11
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  13. 2015-03-18
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  14. 2014-09-22
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  15. 2014-09-22
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  16. 2007-09-26
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    Charge satisfied #2
  17. 2002-07-01
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    HARTSHORN, Helen Patricia appointed
    director
  18. 2002-04-30
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Yorkshire Bank PLC
  19. 2002-04-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Yorkshire Bank PLC
  20. 1997-10-01
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    Company incorporated
    As B.B.D. PROPERTY AND LEISURE LIMITED
  21. 1997-10-01
    ➕
    HARTSHORN, Helen Patricia appointed
    secretary
  22. 1997-10-01
    ➕
    HARTSHORN, Andrew David appointed
    director
  23. 1997-10-01
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    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1997-10-01
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    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

91/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Helen Patricia Hartshorn
Individual · British · DOB 04/1956 · age 70
25–50%
25–50%board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence06/04/2016
Mr Andrew David Hartshorn
Individual · British · DOB 11/1962 · age 64
25–50%
25–50%board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1997-10-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC98000 — Residents property management

Registered office

10 Epsom Close
Lichfield
Staffordshire
WS14 9YE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-18
Last: 2025-09-04

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

HARTSHORN, Helen Patricia→
secretary · appointed 1997-10-01
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Active
HARTSHORN, Andrew David→
director · ~64y · appointed 1997-10-01
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Active
HARTSHORN, Helen Patricia→
director · ~70y · appointed 2002-07-01
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Active
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-10-01 · resigned 1997-10-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Virgin Money
Yorkshire Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property30/04/200226/09/2007
outstanding
Virgin Money
Yorkshire Bank PLC
Debenture1 property08/04/2002—
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Recent filings (73 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2025-11-05
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-29
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-03-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-03-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-02-27