1881 PROPERTIES LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
12718014 · ltd · incorporated 2020-07-03
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 Jul 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
64/100
Worth a look
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What this business does
Primary activity: Buying and selling of own real estate
Sector: Real estate
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 68209Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Investor take
Worth a look
Property-backed borrower. Reasonable fundamentals — worth a memo before deciding.

Opportunity 64/100 (worth a look), bankability 57/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 6 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

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Refinance opportunity

12 live charges · 6 lenders · oldest 4.5y

5/100
under pressure

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

  • · Charge age ~4.5 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
  • · 6 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
12 charges (12/12 with lender, 12/12 with type)
90
Directors & officers
1 officers (1 active, 1 linked, 1 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
29 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
64/100Worth a look
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Mixed signal. Worth opening the full target workup before deciding to pursue.

Business quality
55
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
50
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
66
Some moderate concerns — review flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

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

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • 2 mortgage
  • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
7
filings
  • 6 mortgage
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-02-06
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  3. 2026-02-02
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  4. 2026-02-02
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    Charge satisfied #8
  5. 2026-01-30
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    Charge registered #12
    Lender: Godiva Mortgages Limited
  6. 2025-12-19
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  7. 2025-12-18
    📄
    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  8. 2025-12-18
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    Charge registered #11
    Lender: Godiva Mortgages Limited
  9. 2025-12-18
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #7
  10. 2025-11-24
    📄
    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  11. 2025-11-21
    🔒
    Charge registered #10
    Lender: Godiva Mortgages Limited
  12. 2025-11-10
    📄
    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  13. 2025-11-10
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    Charge registered #9
    Lender: Godiva Mortgages Limited
  14. 2024-10-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  15. 2024-01-19
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2024-01-19
    🔒
    Charge registered #8
    Lender: Onesavings Bank PLC
  17. 2024-01-18
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  18. 2024-01-17
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    Charge registered #7
    Lender: Aldermore Bank PLC
  19. 2024-01-03
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  20. 2024-01-03
    📄
    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  21. 2023-12-14
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  22. 2023-06-09
    📄
    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  23. 2023-06-02
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    Charge registered #6
    Lender: The Mortgage Works (UK) PLC
  24. 2023-01-24
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  25. 2023-01-23
    📄
    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  26. 2022-08-03
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  27. 2022-06-13
    📄
    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  28. 2022-06-10
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    Charge registered #5
    Lender: Charter Court Financial Services LTD T/a Precise Mortgages
  29. 2022-05-12
    📄
    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  30. 2022-05-11
    🔒
    Charge registered #4
    Lender: The Mortgage Works (UK) PLC
  31. 2022-04-14
    📄
    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  32. 2022-04-08
    🔒
    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Mortgage Works (UK) PLC
  33. 2022-03-18
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  34. 2021-12-15
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Pepper Money Limited (Trading as Pepper Money)
  35. 2021-11-10
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Mortgage Works (UK) PLC
  36. 2020-07-03
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As 1881 PROPERTIES LIMITED
  37. 2020-07-03
    O'BYRNE, Jonathan David appointed
    director

Owner dependency

80/100
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.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 6 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

45/100
Moderate signal

Some succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.

SIGNALS
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.

Red flags

2 med · 1 low
4 new charges in last 12 months
medium

Heavy recent charge activity can indicate refinancing pressure, aggressive leverage, or multiple lender rotation.

Evidence: 2026-01-30: A registered charge; 2025-12-18: A registered charge; 2025-11-21: A registered charge

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern
medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

10 live charges
low

Heavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Jonathan David O'Byrne
Individual · English · DOB 10/1983 · age 43
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control03/07/2020

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

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9 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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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
Incorporated2020-07-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

85 Bankfield Lane
Southport
PR9 7NL
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-13
Last: 2025-06-29

Officers (1 active · 0 resigned)

O'BYRNE, Jonathan David
director · ~43y · appointed 2020-07-03
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Mortgages & charges

12
Total charges
10
Outstanding
4
Active lenders
Status:Lender:12 of 12 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Godiva Mortgages
Godiva Mortgages Limited
A registered charge1 property30/01/2026
outstanding
Godiva Mortgages
Godiva Mortgages Limited
A registered charge1 property18/12/2025
outstanding
Godiva Mortgages
Godiva Mortgages Limited
A registered charge1 property21/11/2025
outstanding
Godiva Mortgages
Godiva Mortgages Limited
A registered charge1 property10/11/2025
satisfied
Onesavings Bank
Onesavings Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property19/01/202402/02/2026
satisfied
Aldermore
Aldermore Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property17/01/202418/12/2025
outstanding
The Mortgage Works (UK)
The Mortgage Works (UK) PLC
A registered charge1 property02/06/2023
outstanding
Precise Mortgages
Charter Court Financial Services LTD T/a Precise Mortgages
A registered charge1 property10/06/2022
outstanding
The Mortgage Works (UK)
The Mortgage Works (UK) PLC
A registered charge1 property11/05/2022
outstanding
The Mortgage Works (UK)
The Mortgage Works (UK) PLC
A registered charge1 property08/04/2022
outstanding
Pepper Money (Trading as Pepper Money)
Pepper Money Limited (Trading as Pepper Money)
A registered charge1 property15/12/2021
outstanding
The Mortgage Works (UK)
The Mortgage Works (UK) PLC
A registered charge1 property10/11/2021
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Recent filings (29 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-03-05
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2026-02-06
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2026-02-02
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2025-12-19
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2025-12-18
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2025-11-24
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2025-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-10-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-01
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2024-01-19
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2024-01-18
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-01-03
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2024-01-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-14