DELANCEY REAL ESTATE ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED
📉Decliningactive
04517621 · ltd · incorporated 2002-08-22
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
- · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
- · Currently "declining"
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£4.21M
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 11.5y
75/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 11.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
- · Not currently profitable — coverage conversation is a harder sell.
Data confidence
Overall: high (83/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
14 officers (4 active, 14 linked, 7 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
38 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
112 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
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 · FRS 102Loss-making
Loss before tax £24,720,000
Revenue decline
Turnover down 87% YoY
Slipped into loss
Moved from profit to loss this year
Turnover YoY
-87%
Year on year
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 · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4.21M | £31.97M |
| Gross profit | — | £29.42M |
| Operating profit | £-24.65M | £1.81M |
| Profit before tax | £-24.72M | £1.79M |
| Average employees | 0 | 7100 |
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
2
filings
- • 1 officers
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
- • 1 officers
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 miscellaneous
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (44 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-21📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-03-03📄legacymiscellaneous · ANNOTATION
- 2025-10-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-07-23➖DELANCEY LIMITED resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2025-07-23📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2025-05-29📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2025-05-28➕BOWDEN, James Edward Blake appointeddirector
- 2024-12-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-07-31📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2024-01-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-28📄change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH04
- 2023-06-28📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2023-06-28📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-05-25📄auditors-resignation-companyauditors · AUD
- 2023-03-28📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2023-01-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-11-14📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2021-10-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-01-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-30➖HADEN SCOTT, Timothy resigneddirector
- 2020-01-30➕LANCASTER, Stafford Murray appointeddirector
- 2018-03-31➖WAGMAN, Colin Barry resigneddirector
- 2017-11-23🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2014-12-22🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Cain Hoy Finance Limited (And All Its Successors and Assigns)
- 2006-12-22➖JONES, Gary Stanley resignedsecretary
- 2006-12-22➕DELANCEY LIMITED appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2004-08-24➕JONES, Gary Stanley appointedsecretary
- 2004-08-24➖PORTMAN ADMINISTRATION 1 LIMITED resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2003-09-23➖MOSS, Andrew Graham resignedsecretary
- 2003-09-23➕PORTMAN ADMINISTRATION 1 LIMITED appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2003-07-28➖EMMETT, Graham Anthony Johnathan resigneddirector
- 2003-06-05➕EMMETT, Graham Anthony Johnathan appointeddirector
- 2003-06-05➕HADEN SCOTT, Timothy appointeddirector
- 2003-06-05➕WAGMAN, Colin Barry appointeddirector
- 2002-09-09➕MOSS, Andrew Graham appointedsecretary
- 2002-09-09➖GOLDEN SECRETARIES LIMITED resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2002-08-22🏢Company incorporatedAs DELANCEY REAL ESTATE ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED
- 2002-08-22➕GOSWELL, Paul Jonathan appointeddirector
- 2002-08-22➕RITBLAT, James William Jeremy appointeddirector
- 2002-08-22➕GOLDEN SECRETARIES LIMITED appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2002-08-22➕SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2002-08-22➖SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2002-08-22➕INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
- 2002-08-22➖INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
58/100
Moderate — manageable with handoverSome founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.
FACTORS
- -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
60/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Group structure
Cortx Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.
🏛️ultimate parent
Cortx Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
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DELANCEY REAL ESTATE ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED
This company · 04517621
Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cortx Holdings Limited Corporate entity | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 14/11/2017 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mr James William Jeremy Ritblatceased 14/11/2017· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
8 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.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-08-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Registered office
2 Fitzroy Place
8 Mortimer Street
London
W1T 3JJ
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-12
Last: 2026-03-29
Officers (4 active · 10 resigned)
BOWDEN, James Edward Blake→
Activedirector · ~48y · appointed 2025-05-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
GOSWELL, Paul Jonathan→
Activedirector · ~62y · appointed 2002-08-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
LANCASTER, Stafford Murray→
Activedirector · ~58y · appointed 2020-01-30
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RITBLAT, James William Jeremy→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2002-08-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
JONES, Gary Stanley→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2004-08-24 · resigned 2006-12-22
MOSS, Andrew Graham→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2002-09-09 · resigned 2003-09-23
DELANCEY LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2006-12-22 · resigned 2025-07-23
GOLDEN SECRETARIES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2002-08-22 · resigned 2002-09-09
PORTMAN ADMINISTRATION 1 LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2003-09-23 · resigned 2004-08-24
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-08-22 · resigned 2002-08-22
EMMETT, Graham Anthony Johnathan→
Resigneddirector · ~63y · appointed 2003-06-05 · resigned 2003-07-28
HADEN SCOTT, Timothy→
Resigneddirector · ~62y · appointed 2003-06-05 · resigned 2020-06-30
WAGMAN, Colin Barry→
Resigneddirector · ~80y · appointed 2003-06-05 · resigned 2018-03-31
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-08-22 · resigned 2002-08-22
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | Cain Hoy Finance (And All Its Successors and Assigns) Cain Hoy Finance Limited (And All Its Successors and Assigns) | A registered charge | — | 22/12/2014 | 23/11/2017 |
Recent filings (112 total)
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-04-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-02
legacy
miscellaneous · ANNOTATION
2026-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-02
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-07-23
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-13
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-05
change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2023-06-28
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2023-06-28
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-06-28
auditors-resignation-company
auditors · AUD
2023-05-25