APARTHOTELS (LONDON THAMES) LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
05311087 · ltd · incorporated 2004-12-11
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
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 80). 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).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 11.4y

45/100
under pressure

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 2 with DOB)
77
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees1000

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-01-25
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    legacy
    accounts · PARENT_ACC
  5. 2024-01-25
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    legacy
    other · GUARANTEE2
  6. 2024-01-25
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    legacy
    other · GUARANTEE2
  7. 2023-01-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-04-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-02-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-01-09
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  12. 2020-01-09
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  13. 2019-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-02-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-05-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  16. 2017-02-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2015-01-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Sof-10 Starlight 7 Gbp S.A.R.L.
  18. 2009-12-31
    ➖
    ASHBY, Thomas Daniel resigned
    secretary
  19. 2009-12-31
    ➖
    ASHBY, Thomas Daniel resigned
    director
  20. 2009-12-11
    ➕
    ROBSON, Christine appointed
    secretary
  21. 2004-12-11
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    Company incorporated
    As APARTHOTELS (LONDON THAMES) LIMITED
  22. 2004-12-11
    ➕
    HARRIS, Graham appointed
    director
  23. 2004-12-11
    ➕
    ASHBY, Thomas Daniel appointed
    secretary
  24. 2004-12-11
    ➕
    CRS LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2004-12-11
    ➖
    CRS LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2004-12-11
    ➕
    ASHBY, Thomas Daniel appointed
    director
  27. 2004-12-11
    ➕
    MC FORMATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  28. 2004-12-11
    ➖
    MC FORMATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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 21 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 Harris Graham
Individual · British · DOB 12/1946 · age 80
——sig. influencesignificant influence01/08/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • London & City Group Holdings Ltdceased 01/08/2016· 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.

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 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
Incorporated2004-12-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

1 Maltings Place, 169 Tower Bridge Road
London
SE1 3JB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-16
Last: 2025-12-02

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

ROBSON, Christine→
secretary · appointed 2009-12-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HARRIS, Graham→
director · ~80y · appointed 2004-12-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ASHBY, Thomas Daniel→
secretary · appointed 2004-12-11 · resigned 2009-12-31
Resigned
CRS LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-12-11 · resigned 2004-12-11
Resigned
ASHBY, Thomas Daniel→
director · ~50y · appointed 2004-12-11 · resigned 2009-12-31
Resigned
MC FORMATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-12-11 · resigned 2004-12-11
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Sof-10 Starlight 7 Gbp S.A.R.L.
A registered charge1 property15/01/2015—
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Recent filings (68 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2026-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-01-25
legacy
accounts · PARENT_ACC
2024-01-25
legacy
other · GUARANTEE2
2024-01-25
legacy
other · GUARANTEE2
2024-01-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-01-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-04-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-23