A.E. SECURITIES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
04079002 · ltd · incorporated 2000-09-27
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£10.67M
book net assets
Opportunity
75/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Sector: Real estate
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: asset-holding vehicle with strong profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 75/100 (strong), bankability 77/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 51). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 7 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (50/100).
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Refinance opportunity
23 live charges · 7 lenders · oldest 25.6y
15/100
under pressure
Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.
- · Oldest live charge is 25.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · 7 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
- · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.
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
23 charges (23/23 with lender, 23/23 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
131 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
75/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
65
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
77
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £10,672,117
Cash draining
Cash down 88% YoY
Cash YoY
-88%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£45k
↓ 88% YoY
Net Worth
£11m
↑ 10% YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | £45.4k | £370.0k |
| Net assets | £10.67M | £9.68M |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (78 events)Click to expand
- 2025-10-17📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2025-10-17📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-10-15📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2025-10-15📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2025-05-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-08-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-09📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #22
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #20
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #19
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #18
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #16
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #15
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #14
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #13
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #12
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #10
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #9
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #7
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #6
- 2023-07-13🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2023-07-12📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-01-17🔓Charge satisfied #3
- 2018-07-25🔓Charge satisfied #23
- 2018-02-13🔓Charge satisfied #21
- 2017-10-03🔒Charge registered #23Lender: Principality Building Society
- 2017-04-19🔒Charge registered #22Lender: Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
- 2017-04-19🔒Charge registered #21Lender: Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
- 2017-02-01🔒Charge registered #20Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2016-06-28🔓Charge satisfied #17
- 2016-03-30🔒Charge registered #19Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2012-03-01🔒Charge registered #18Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
- 2010-12-16🔒Charge registered #17Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2010-12-16🔒Charge registered #16Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2010-04-09🔓Charge satisfied #8
- 2010-04-09🔓Charge satisfied #2
Showing most recent 50 of 78 events
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
66/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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
1 med ·Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern
mediumMultiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.
Group structure
Scotsgrove Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.
🏛️ultimate parent
Scotsgrove Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
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A.E. SECURITIES LIMITED
This company · 04079002
Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Scotsgrove Holdings Limited Corporate entity | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 29/09/2025 |
Eliot Brian Arthur Haimes Individual · British · DOB 02/1977 · age 49 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Alistair Edward Charles Haimesceased 29/09/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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6 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
Incorporated2000-09-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC68209 — Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Registered office
Office 5 Riverside Place
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 1JH
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-11
Last: 2025-09-27
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
HAIMES, Eliot Brian Arthur→
Activesecretary · appointed 2000-09-27
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HAIMES, Alistair Edward Charles→
Activedirector · ~51y · appointed 2000-09-27
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HAIMES, Eliot Brian Arthur→
Activedirector · ~49y · appointed 2000-09-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-09-27 · resigned 2000-09-27
HAIMES, Brian Edward→
Resigneddirector · ~88y · appointed 2004-11-03 · resigned 2006-09-29
CORPORATE APPOINTMENTS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-09-27 · resigned 2000-09-27
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Mortgages & charges
23
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:23 of 23 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | Principality Building Society | A registered charge | 1 property | 03/10/2017 | 25/07/2018 | |
| satisfied | Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ) | A registered charge | 1 property | 19/04/2017 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ) | A registered charge | 2 properties | 19/04/2017 | 13/02/2018 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | 2 properties | 01/02/2017 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 30/03/2016 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage | 1 property | 01/03/2012 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 16/12/2010 | 28/06/2016 | |
| satisfied | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 16/12/2010 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage | 1 property | 06/04/2010 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage | 1 property | 20/06/2008 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage deed | 1 property | 29/05/2008 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage | 1 property | 19/06/2007 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 11/05/2004 | 23/01/2010 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage deed | 1 property | 16/04/2003 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Nationwide Nationwide Building Society | Legal charge | 1 property | 24/03/2003 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | Nationwide Nationwide Building Society | Debenture | 1 property | 06/06/2002 | 09/04/2010 | |
| satisfied | Nationwide Nationwide Building Society | Legal charge | 2 properties | 06/06/2002 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 16/11/2001 | 13/07/2023 | |
| satisfied | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 25/10/2001 | 21/08/2008 | |
| satisfied | Nationwide Nationwide Building Society | Legal charge | 1 property | 26/09/2001 | 10/12/2009 | |
| satisfied | Nationwide Nationwide Building Society | Legal charge | 1 property | 26/09/2001 | 17/01/2020 | |
| satisfied | Nationwide Nationwide Building Society | Debenture | 1 property | 26/09/2001 | 09/04/2010 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage | 2 properties | 15/11/2000 | 13/07/2023 |
Recent filings (131 total)
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-10-17
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-10-17
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-10-15
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2025-10-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-01
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-01-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-10
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-07-13
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-07-13
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-07-13
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-07-13
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-07-13