AC REALISATIONS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
NF003534 · oversea-company · incorporated 2000-06-05
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 23.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
not disclosed
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). 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 (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 23.9y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 23.9 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: low (45/100)Sparse data coverage. Treat AI-generated outputs as preliminary. Manual diligence essential.
Company profile
address, no SIC, incorporation date
80
Financials
No iXBRL financials extracted
0
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (6 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
6 filings
60
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (14 events)Click to expand
- 2007-03-30✏️legacychange-of-name · 642-2(NI)
- 2002-06-07📄particulars-of-a-mortgage-chargemortgage · 402(NI)
- 2002-05-23🔒Charge registered #1Lender: London
- 2001-08-30📄legacyaccounts · ACX(NI)
- 2000-06-13📄legacyaccounts · 233(NI)
- 2000-06-05🏢Company incorporatedAs AC REALISATIONS LIMITED
- 2000-06-05➕MURRAY, Dean Anthony appointedsecretary
- 2000-06-05➕DICKERSON, Stuart appointeddirector
- 2000-06-05➕HOBBS, Michael Peter appointeddirector
- 2000-06-05➕MURRAY, Dean Anthony appointeddirector
- 2000-06-05➕SHALE, Claire Ann appointeddirector
- 2000-06-05➕WALKER, Philip Anthony appointeddirector
- 2000-06-05📄legacyaccounts · ACX(NI)
- 2000-06-05📄legacyother · 641(NI)
Owner dependency
65/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- -5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
80/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
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Statusactive
Typeoversea-company
Incorporated2000-06-05
Jurisdictionunited-kingdom
Primary SIC—
Registered office
Unit 23 Castle Court
Shopping Centre
Belfast
BT1 1DD
Filing status
Accounts
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Last made up to: —
Confirmation statement
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Last: —
Officers (6 active · 0 resigned)
MURRAY, Dean Anthony→
Activesecretary · appointed 2000-06-05
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DICKERSON, Stuart→
Activedirector · ~67y · appointed 2000-06-05
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HOBBS, Michael Peter→
Activedirector · ~66y · appointed 2000-06-05
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MURRAY, Dean Anthony→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 2000-06-05
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SHALE, Claire Ann→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2000-06-05
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WALKER, Philip Anthony→
Activedirector · ~69y · appointed 2000-06-05
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays London / Barclays Bank PLC | Mortgage or charge | 1 property | 23/05/2002 | — |
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Recent filings (6 total)
legacy
change-of-name · 642-2(NI)
2007-03-30
particulars-of-a-mortgage-charge
mortgage · 402(NI)
2002-06-07
legacy
accounts · ACX(NI)
2001-08-30
legacy
accounts · 233(NI)
2000-06-13
legacy
accounts · ACX(NI)
2000-06-05
legacy
other · 641(NI)
2000-06-05