ARTIUS PROPERTY PROTECTION LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
09632816 · ltd · incorporated 2015-06-10
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 9.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£285.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 9.5y

70/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.5 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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
19 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
41 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.

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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
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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £284,998
Cash YoY
+7%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£47k
↑ 7.2% YoY
Net Worth
£285k
↑ 14% YoY
Current Assets
£665k
↓ 45% YoY
Current Liabilities
£0£243k£487k£730k£973k£1.2mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£308.9k£279.5k
Current assets£664.6k£1.22M
Cash£47.3k£44.1k
Debtors£607.1k£1.17M
Net assets£285.0k£250.1k

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
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-24
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  2. 2025-12-24
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    Charge satisfied #1
  3. 2025-10-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-11-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-11-24
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2022-10-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-09-06
    📄
    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  9. 2022-09-01
    📄
    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  10. 2022-09-01
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2021-12-21
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-12-19
    ABBOTT, Ferdinanda resigned
    director
  13. 2021-02-09
    ABBOTT, Paul Richard appointed
    director
  14. 2021-02-09
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  15. 2020-12-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-07-30
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-02-20
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  18. 2018-12-28
    📄
    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  19. 2017-11-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  20. 2017-07-11
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Ferdinanda Abbott
  21. 2017-01-20
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Skipton Business Finance Limited
  22. 2016-12-22
    ABBOTT, Ferdinanda appointed
    director
  23. 2015-06-10
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ARTIUS PROPERTY PROTECTION LIMITED
  24. 2015-06-10
    SLATER, Michael Robert appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material 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 75 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

71/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Artius Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Artius Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
ARTIUS PROPERTY PROTECTION LIMITED
This company · 09632816

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
Artius Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75100%
75-100% shares21/07/2022
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Ferdinanda Abbottceased 21/07/2022· 75-100% shares

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

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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2015-06-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

Saxon House
Stephenson Way
Crawley
RH10 1TN
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-30
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last: 2026-07-17

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

ABBOTT, Paul Richard
director · ~75y · appointed 2021-02-09
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Active
SLATER, Michael Robert
director · ~60y · appointed 2015-06-10
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Active
ABBOTT, Ferdinanda
director · ~66y · appointed 2016-12-22 · resigned 2021-12-19
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Ferdinanda Abbott
A registered charge11/07/2017
satisfied
Skipton Business Finance
Skipton Business Finance Limited
A registered charge1 property20/01/201724/12/2025
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Recent filings (41 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-07-17
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2025-12-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-11-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-10-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-09-06
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-09-01
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-12-21