12-22 FINCHLEY ROAD DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
09401649 · ltd · incorporated 2015-01-22
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 11.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Development of building projects
Sector: Construction
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 81). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 11.1y
70/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 11.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (84/100)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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
20 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
55 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
75
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 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 · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 0 | 0 |
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
3
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2026-01-22📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-20📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2023-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-01📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2023-02-28📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2023-02-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-30📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2021-12-30📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2021-12-20📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2021-12-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-17📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2021-11-16📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2021-05-26📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2021-05-25📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2021-01-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-03🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Edmond De Rothschild (Suisse) S.A.
- 2015-09-21🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Mcg (Finance) Limited
- 2015-03-20➕JAYE, Michael Robin appointeddirector
- 2015-03-20➖WEST, Benjamin Iain resigneddirector
- 2015-03-20🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Mcg (Finance) Limited
- 2015-02-06➕WEST, Benjamin Iain appointeddirector
- 2015-01-22🏢Company incorporatedAs 12-22 FINCHLEY ROAD DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
- 2015-01-22➕WEST, Benjamin Iain appointedsecretary
- 2015-01-22➕COOPER, Marcus Simon appointeddirector
Owner dependency
73/100
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.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
71/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- 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
Cooper Developments (Finchley Road) Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.
🏛️significant stake
Cooper Developments (Finchley Road) Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
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12-22 FINCHLEY ROAD DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
This company · 09401649
Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).
Shareholders & ownership
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Michael Robin Jaye Individual · British · DOB 02/1945 · age 81 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Cooper Developments (Finchley Road) Limited Corporate entity | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Marcus Simon Cooper Individual · British · DOB 02/1966 · age 60 | — | — | 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.
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2015-01-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC41100 — Development of building projects
Registered office
16 Finchley Road
London
NW8 6EB
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-28
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last: 2025-11-16
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
WEST, Benjamin Iain→
Activesecretary · appointed 2015-01-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
COOPER, Marcus Simon→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2015-01-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
JAYE, Michael Robin→
Activedirector · ~81y · appointed 2015-03-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WEST, Benjamin Iain→
Resigneddirector · ~46y · appointed 2015-02-06 · resigned 2015-03-20
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Edmond De Rothschild (Suisse) S.A. | A registered charge | 5 properties | 03/08/2018 | — | |
| outstanding | Mcg (Finance) Mcg (Finance) Limited | A registered charge | 3 properties | 21/09/2015 | — | |
| outstanding | Mcg (Finance) Mcg (Finance) Limited | A registered charge | — | 20/03/2015 | — |
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Recent filings (55 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-22
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-01-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-11
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-22
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2023-03-01
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2023-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-30
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2022-03-30
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2021-12-30