STAFFORD MCGUIGAN PROPERTIES LTD

🌳Matureactive
NI036969 · ltd · incorporated 1999-09-21
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 8.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£106.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 87). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 8.7y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
77 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 · FRS 105 (micro)
Positive net assets
Net assets £106,356
Net assets shrinking
Down £824 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£106k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£51k
↓ 1.6% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£21k£43k£64k£86k£107kSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£107.0k£107.2k
Current assets£50.5k£51.3k
Net assets£106.4k£107.2k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2025-02-11
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  3. 2024-02-09
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  4. 2023-05-02
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  5. 2021-12-23
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  6. 2021-09-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2021-09-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2021-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-06-25
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-06-27
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-06-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-09-22
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  13. 2017-09-21
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Allan Byers
  14. 2017-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-06-27
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2015-12-15
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  17. 2015-05-07
    ➕
    BYERS, Allan appointed
    director
  18. 1999-09-21
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    Company incorporated
    As STAFFORD MCGUIGAN PROPERTIES LTD
  19. 1999-09-21
    ➕
    SWEENEY, Alana Marianne appointed
    secretary
  20. 1999-09-21
    ➕
    BYERS, Gregory Allan Stafford appointed
    director
  21. 1999-09-21
    ➕
    SWEENEY, Alana Marianne 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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 87 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 87 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Gregory Allan Stafford Byers
Individual · British · DOB 05/1966 · age 60
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Ms Alana Marianne Sweeney
Individual · British · DOB 04/1965 · age 61
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Allan Byers
Individual · British · DOB 07/1939 · age 87
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1999-09-21
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

At The Offices Of Mccleary & Co Ltd Quaker Buildings
High Street
Lurgan
Craigavon
BT66 8BB
Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-05
Last: 2025-09-21

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

SWEENEY, Alana Marianne→
secretary · appointed 1999-09-21
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Active
BYERS, Allan→
director · ~87y · appointed 2015-05-07
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Active
BYERS, Gregory Allan Stafford→
director · ~60y · appointed 1999-09-21
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Active
SWEENEY, Alana Marianne→
director · ~61y · appointed 1999-09-21
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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Allan Byers
A registered charge1 property21/09/2017—
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Recent filings (77 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-05-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-02-11
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-02-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-05-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-09-22
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-09-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-05-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-06-25