2 CASTELLAIN ROAD LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03568006 · ltd · incorporated 1998-05-21
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 May 2025
Net worth
£1.3k
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 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
14 officers (2 active, 14 linked, 11 with DOB)
86
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
86 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.

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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
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,250

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
£1k
~ YoY
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£250£500£750£1k£1kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£1.3k£1.3k
Debtors£797£716
Net assets£1.3k£1.3k

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (42 events)Click to expand
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  16. 2014-02-25
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    CROSS, Peter Simon appointed
    director
  17. 2011-02-28
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    BLG REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2008-04-30
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    BLG REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  19. 2008-04-30
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    ROCHMAN LANDAU SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2007-11-30
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    VIGORS, Helen Katherine resigned
    director
  21. 2004-01-09
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    HOEHN, Julie resigned
    director
  22. 2002-10-25
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    HOEHN, Julie appointed
    director
  23. 2001-05-10
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    WARDLE, Jonathan James resigned
    director
  24. 2000-09-05
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    VIGORS, Helen Katherine appointed
    director
  25. 2000-07-08
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    JONES, Louise resigned
    director
  26. 1999-07-28
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    CHAN, Nai Yan resigned
    director
  27. 1999-07-28
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    WARDLE, Jonathan James appointed
    director
  28. 1998-09-28
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    LUBIN, David Paul appointed
    director
  29. 1998-09-28
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    HONOUR, Michael resigned
    director
  30. 1998-08-28
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    EASTWOOD, John resigned
    director
  31. 1998-08-28
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    JONES, Louise appointed
    director
  32. 1998-05-21
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    Company incorporated
    As 2 CASTELLAIN ROAD LIMITED
  33. 1998-05-21
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    DWYER, Daniel John appointed
    nominee-secretary
  34. 1998-05-21
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    DWYER, Daniel John resigned
    nominee-secretary
  35. 1998-05-21
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    ROCHMAN LANDAU SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  36. 1998-05-21
    ➕
    CHAN, Nai Yan appointed
    director
  37. 1998-05-21
    ➕
    DOYLE, Betty June appointed
    nominee-director
  38. 1998-05-21
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    DOYLE, Betty June resigned
    nominee-director
  39. 1998-05-21
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    DWYER, Daniel John appointed
    nominee-director
  40. 1998-05-21
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    DWYER, Daniel John resigned
    nominee-director
  41. 1998-05-21
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    EASTWOOD, John appointed
    director
  42. 1998-05-21
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    HONOUR, Michael appointed
    director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr David Paul Lubin
Individual · American,British · DOB 04/1963 · age 63
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-05-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC98000 — Residents property management

Registered office

The Old Creamery
North Barrow
Yeovil
Somerset
BA22 7LZ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-24
Last: 2026-02-10

Officers (2 active · 12 resigned)

CROSS, Peter Simon→
director · ~61y · appointed 2014-02-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LUBIN, David Paul→
director · ~63y · appointed 1998-09-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DWYER, Daniel John→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 1998-05-21
Resigned
BLG REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2008-04-30 · resigned 2011-02-28
Resigned
ROCHMAN LANDAU SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 2008-04-30
Resigned
CHAN, Nai Yan→
director · ~99y · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 1999-07-28
Resigned
DOYLE, Betty June→
nominee-director · ~90y · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 1998-05-21
Resigned
DWYER, Daniel John→
nominee-director · ~85y · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 1998-05-21
Resigned
EASTWOOD, John→
director · ~81y · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 1998-08-28
Resigned
HOEHN, Julie→
director · ~74y · appointed 2002-10-25 · resigned 2004-01-09
Resigned
HONOUR, Michael→
director · ~80y · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 1998-09-28
Resigned
JONES, Louise→
director · ~62y · appointed 1998-08-28 · resigned 2000-07-08
Resigned
VIGORS, Helen Katherine→
director · ~54y · appointed 2000-09-05 · resigned 2007-11-30
Resigned
WARDLE, Jonathan James→
director · ~48y · appointed 1999-07-28 · resigned 2001-05-10
Resigned

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Recent filings (86 total)

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2026-02-20
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2025-10-20
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2025-03-02
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2025-02-26
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2024-02-27
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2023-03-16
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2022-12-12
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2022-03-21
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2022-02-28
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2021-01-04
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