10 EATON GARDENS (HOVE) LIMITED

💤Zombieactive

04796557 · ltd · incorporated 2003-06-12

Investment thesis

Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.

Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.

Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

£9

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

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 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

9 officers (2 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

63 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒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

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Positive net assets

Net assets £9

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£9

~ YoY

Current Assets

£9

~ YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Total assets	£9	£9
Current assets	£9	£9
Net assets	£9	£9

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand

2026-03-27
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2025-01-29
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2024-03-01
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2023-02-02
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2022-03-01
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2021-03-01
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2019-09-03
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2018-09-26
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accounts · AA
2018-02-26
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officers · TM01
2018-02-25
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SUTTON, Paul Mark resigned
director
2018-02-02
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KASSAM, Oliver Jonathan resigned
director
2018-02-02
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officers · TM01
2017-08-09
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accounts · AA
2017-02-22
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accounts · AA
2016-07-07
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annual-return · AR01
2016-07-07
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officers · CH01
2016-07-07
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officers · CH01
2016-07-07
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officers · CH01
2015-03-19
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SUTTON, Paul Mark appointed
director
2005-12-03
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JOYCE, Elizabeth Mary resigned
director
2004-12-03
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HARTLEY, David Samuel resigned
secretary
2004-12-03
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HARDWICK, Stephen Frank resigned
director
2004-12-03
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HARTLEY, David Samuel resigned
director
2004-12-01
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GALE, Maurice William appointed
secretary
2004-12-01
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GALE, Maurice William appointed
director
2004-12-01
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JOYCE, Elizabeth Mary appointed
director
2004-12-01
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KASSAM, Oliver Jonathan appointed
director
2003-06-12
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Company incorporated
As 10 EATON GARDENS (HOVE) LIMITED
2003-06-12
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HARTLEY, David Samuel appointed
secretary
2003-06-12
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-06-12
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-06-12
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HARDWICK, Stephen Frank appointed
director
2003-06-12
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HARTLEY, David Samuel appointed
director

Owner dependency

93/100

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

+Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100

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 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Maurice William Gale Individual · British · DOB 03/1962 · age 64	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

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.

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10 BUCKINGHAM PLACE, BRIGHTON RESIDENTS COMPANY LIMITED→ 03197422 · est 1996 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	29y	—	—
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10 COLLEGE ROAD (BRIGHTON) LIMITED→ 08656703 · est 2013 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	12y	—	—
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10 DEVONSHIRE PLACE BRIGHTON LIMITED→ 02557211 · est 1990 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	35y	—	—
10 ENYS ROAD EASTBOURNE (RTM) LIMITED→ 06712452 · est 2008 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	17y	—	—

Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →

🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 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

Incorporated2003-06-12

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC98000 — Residents property management

Registered office

Cornelius House

178-180 Church Road

Hove

East Sussex

BN3 2DJ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-26

Last: 2025-06-12

Officers (2 active · 7 resigned)

GALE, Maurice William→

secretary · appointed 2004-12-01

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

GALE, Maurice William→

director · ~64y · appointed 2004-12-01

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Active

HARTLEY, David Samuel→

secretary · appointed 2003-06-12 · resigned 2004-12-03

Resigned

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-06-12 · resigned 2003-06-12

Resigned

HARDWICK, Stephen Frank→

director · ~64y · appointed 2003-06-12 · resigned 2004-12-03

Resigned

HARTLEY, David Samuel→

director · ~63y · appointed 2003-06-12 · resigned 2004-12-03

Resigned

JOYCE, Elizabeth Mary→

director · ~68y · appointed 2004-12-01 · resigned 2005-12-03

Resigned

KASSAM, Oliver Jonathan→

director · ~55y · appointed 2004-12-01 · resigned 2018-02-02

Resigned

SUTTON, Paul Mark→

director · ~51y · appointed 2015-03-19 · resigned 2018-02-25

Resigned

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