4TH FLOOR PROPERTIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05922776 · ltd · incorporated 2006-09-01
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 19.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£38
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 19.6y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 19.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
60 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £38

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£38
~ YoY
Current Assets
£57k
↓ 47% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£21k£42k£64k£85k£106kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£38£38
Current assets£56.8k£106.2k
Cash—£38
Debtors£56.8k£106.1k
Net assets£38£38

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-12-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-12-03
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  4. 2025-12-03
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    address · AD01
  5. 2025-03-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2025-02-17
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  7. 2024-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-05-24
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-05-23
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-04-20
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    ASKEW, Jonathan appointed
    director
  12. 2021-04-20
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  13. 2021-04-20
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  14. 2021-04-20
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  16. 2021-04-20
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  17. 2021-04-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2021-04-20
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    officers · AP01
  19. 2021-04-20
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    officers · TM01
  20. 2021-03-24
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    COLLINS, Peter Richard resigned
    director
  21. 2020-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  22. 2013-11-01
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    COOPER, Derek Laurence resigned
    secretary
  23. 2010-11-30
    ➕
    COLLINS, Peter Richard appointed
    director
  24. 2010-11-30
    ➖
    MORRIS, Roger Macdonald resigned
    director
  25. 2006-11-17
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Gfa Investments Limited
  26. 2006-09-12
    ➕
    COOPER, Derek Laurence appointed
    secretary
  27. 2006-09-12
    ➖
    UPSON, Julien Keith resigned
    secretary
  28. 2006-09-01
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As 4TH FLOOR PROPERTIES LIMITED
  29. 2006-09-01
    ➕
    UPSON, Julien Keith appointed
    director
  30. 2006-09-01
    ➕
    UPSON, Julien Keith appointed
    secretary
  31. 2006-09-01
    ➕
    MORRIS, Roger Macdonald appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
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 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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.)

Group structure

Hartley Fowler Llp is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Hartley Fowler Llp
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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4TH FLOOR PROPERTIES LIMITED
This company · 05922776

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Hartley Fowler Llp
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares20/04/2021
4 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Jonathan Askewceased 20/04/2021· 25-50% shares
  • Mr Julien Keith Upsonceased 20/04/2021· 25-50% shares
  • Mr Guy Charles Rollistonceased 20/04/2021· 25-50% shares
  • Mr Peter Richard Collinsceased 24/03/2021· 25-50% shares

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-09-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

4th Floor Tuition House
27/37 St George's Road
Wimbledon
London
SW19 4EU
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-15
Last: 2025-09-01

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

ASKEW, Jonathan→
director · ~52y · appointed 2021-04-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
UPSON, Julien Keith→
director · ~68y · appointed 2006-09-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COOPER, Derek Laurence→
secretary · appointed 2006-09-12 · resigned 2013-11-01
Resigned
UPSON, Julien Keith→
secretary · appointed 2006-09-01 · resigned 2006-09-12
Resigned
COLLINS, Peter Richard→
director · ~63y · appointed 2010-11-30 · resigned 2021-03-24
Resigned
MORRIS, Roger Macdonald→
director · ~79y · appointed 2006-09-01 · resigned 2010-11-30
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Gfa Investments
Gfa Investments Limited
Rent security deposit deed1 property17/11/2006—
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Recent filings (60 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-12-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-07
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-02-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-28