CARCANT ESTATES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC030457 · ltd · incorporated 1954-12-20

Investment thesis

Looks cheap but ownership + security both unclear — probable value trap.

Why interesting: Headline metrics may be attractive.

Why risky: No PSC visibility combined with multiple live charges; transacting likely slow and expensive.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 19.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

Upgrade to see

Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£269.0k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

🔒Generate AI memo →🔒Outreach pack →🔒Corporate story →📑 Reports →Sign in to watch

What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01500

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (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. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

🏦

Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 19.4y

50/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 19.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

24 officers (9 active, 24 linked, 20 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

129 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

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 £269,006

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£269k

↑ 44% YoY

Current Assets

£196k

↑ 65% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

Hover to see exact values · click legend to toggle series

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£271.7k	£188.8k
Current assets	£195.6k	£118.6k
Net assets	£269.0k	£186.4k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (52 events)Click to expand

2025-08-29
📄
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-22
📄
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-07-24
📄
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-19
📄
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-13
📄
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-09-13
📄
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-09-13
📄
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-09-13
📄
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-09-13
📄
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-13
📄
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-03
➕
MACKINNON, Lettice Ruth appointed
director
2022-09-03
➕
ROBERTSON, Katherine Ann appointed
director
2022-09-03
➕
ROSS, Gavin appointed
director
2022-09-03
➖
ROSS, Elise Margaret resigned
secretary
2022-09-03
➖
ROBERTSON, Colin Stewart resigned
director
2022-09-03
➖
ROSS, Elise Margaret resigned
director
2022-08-29
📄
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-01-21
📄
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-08-28
➖
SOMERVILLE, Robert Anderson, Dr resigned
director
2020-08-21
📄
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-08-30
📄
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-07-31
📄
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2018-09-04
📄
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2018-08-22
📄
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2018-08-18
➕
SOMERVILLE, Hugh Angus appointed
director
2018-03-31
➖
SOMERVILLE, Michael Charles Urquhart resigned
director
2015-08-29
➕
ROSS, Elise Margaret appointed
secretary
2015-08-29
➖
SOMERVILLE, Robert Anderson resigned
secretary
2014-08-30
➕
MCBAIN, Robin Lawrence Somerville appointed
director
2014-08-30
➖
MCBAIN, Norman Somerville, Dr resigned
director
2014-08-30
➕
ROSS, Elise Margaret appointed
director
2013-08-24
➕
SOMERVILLE, Robert Nigel appointed
director
2013-08-24
➕
SOMERVILLE, Robert Anderson appointed
secretary
2013-08-23
➖
SOMERVILLE, Robert Anderson, Dr resigned
secretary
2013-08-23
➖
SOMERVILLE, Robert Anderson, Dr resigned
director
2012-09-01
➕
CLARK, Mary Janet appointed
director
2009-08-22
➕
ROBERTSON, Vivien Lesley, Ms. appointed
director
2007-07-16
🔒
Charge registered #2
Lender: Carcant Windfarm (Scotland) Limited
2006-11-17
🔒
Charge registered #1
Lender: Amec Project Investments Limited
2005-08-20
➖
SOMERVILLE, Charles Anderson resigned
director
2004-08-21
➖
BROWN, Rosemary Katherine resigned
director
2003-08-16
➖
ROBERTSON, Stanley Urquhart resigned
director
2003-04-19
➕
BROWN, David Michael Gellatly, Dr appointed
director
2003-04-19
➕
SOMERVILLE, Robert Anderson, Dr appointed
director
1999-08-21
➖
BROWN, Rosemary Katherine resigned
secretary
1999-08-21
➕
SOMERVILLE, Robert Anderson, Dr appointed
secretary
1994-01-09
➖
SOMERVILLE, Arnold Urquhart resigned
director
1993-08-14
➕
MCBAIN, Norman Somerville, Dr appointed
director
1992-09-14
➖
SOMERVILLE, James Cargill resigned
director
1991-08-24
➕
ROBERTSON, Colin Stewart appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 52 events

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

-9 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong 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 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 71 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.)

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Similar companies

Active · Agriculture · EH postcode area

Company	Est. value	Turnover	Net worth	Staff	Age	Opp	Director
CRAIGENGILLAN ESTATES (NO 1) COMPANY LIMITED→ SC124520 · est 1990	£3.87M £2.98M–£4.77M	—	—	0	36y	83	63y
APF INTERNATIONAL FOREST MACHINERY EXHIBITION LTD.→ SC228249 · est 2002	£278.2k £214.0k–£342.4k	—	—	500	24y	95	79y
ALDERSTON DAIRIES LIMITED→ SC241138 · est 2002	—	—	£114.4k	—	23y	83	74y
CAITHNESS POTATO BREEDERS LIMITED→ SC082730 · est 1983	—	—	£1.36M	—	43y	83	68y
DENHOLM POTATO GROWERS LIMITED→ SC089295 · est 1984	—	—	£453.8k	—	41y	83	61y
DODS OF HADDINGTON LIMITED→ SC056452 · est 1974	—	—	£2.26M	—	51y	83	72y
DOUGLAS ORR & COMPANY LIMITED→ SC185757 · est 1998	—	—	—	1	27y	83	70y
EAST COAST ORGANICS LTD→ SC297585 · est 2006	—	—	£1.21M	—	20y	83	63y
EAST LOTHIAN PRODUCE LIMITED→ SC185473 · est 1998	—	—	£8.19M	—	27y	83	73y
S & M GRUHAM LTD→ SC585555 · est 2018 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	8y	—	—
TRANSITION EDINBURGH SOUTH (SCOTLAND) LTD→ SC695165 · est 2021 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	5y	—	—
VALEMARE LIMITED→ SC376131 · est 2010 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	16y	—	—

Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →

🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 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.

See pricing →

🔒Advanced scoring suite

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1954-12-20

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Carcant

Heriot

Midlothian

EH38 5YE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-09

Last: 2025-08-26