PERMARENTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC032324 · ltd · incorporated 1957-05-28
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with a workable charge structure — clean refinance potential.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Dependent on title and valuation due diligence; standard property risks.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£108.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Sector: Real estate
Investor take
Pursue
Property-backed borrower with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 60.7y

45/100
under pressure

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 60.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
108 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
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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £107,996
Net assets shrinking
Down £5,999 YoY
Cash YoY
-16%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£38k
↓ 16% YoY
Net Worth
£108k
↓ 5.3% YoY
Current Assets
£39k
↓ 14% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£23k£46k£68k£91k£114kSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£125.0k£131.0k
Current assets£39.1k£45.5k
Cash£37.8k£45.3k
Debtors£1.2k£218
Net assets£108.0k£114.0k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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 accounts
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-28
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  2. 2025-04-15
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  3. 2024-05-01
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  4. 2024-03-12
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  5. 2024-03-12
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  6. 2023-06-15
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  7. 2022-06-30
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  8. 2021-06-30
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  9. 2020-04-17
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  10. 2020-01-10
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  11. 2019-10-18
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  12. 2019-10-18
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    officers · TM01
  13. 2019-09-07
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    DYKES, Rosemary resigned
    director
  14. 2019-01-30
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  15. 2018-01-25
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  16. 2017-01-27
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  17. 2012-10-06
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    DYKES, Harold resigned
    secretary
  18. 2012-10-06
    ➖
    DYKES, Harold resigned
    director
  19. 2006-09-06
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    DYKES, Jonathan Mark appointed
    director
  20. 2006-09-06
    ➖
    DYKES, Melinda resigned
    director
  21. 2003-11-24
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    DYKES, Peter Conrad appointed
    director
  22. 1992-10-05
    ➕
    DYKES, Harold appointed
    director
  23. 1992-10-05
    ➕
    DYKES, Melinda appointed
    director
  24. 1965-08-27
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Century Insurance Company Limited, 18 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 2
  25. 1957-05-28
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    Company incorporated
    As PERMARENTS LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 69 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Peter Conrad Dykes
Individual · British · DOB 04/1963 · age 63
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
Mr Jonathan Mark Dykes
Individual · British · DOB 10/1958 · age 68
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Rosemary Dykesceased 07/09/2019· 50-75% 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
Incorporated1957-05-28
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC68209 — Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate

Registered office

Caledonia House
89 Seaward Street
Glasgow
G41 1HJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-06
Last: 2026-03-23

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

DYKES, Jonathan Mark→
director · ~68y · appointed 2006-09-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DYKES, Peter Conrad→
director · ~63y · appointed 2003-11-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DYKES, Harold→
secretary · resigned 2012-10-06
Resigned
DYKES, Harold→
director · ~108y · appointed 1992-10-05 · resigned 2012-10-06
Resigned
DYKES, Melinda→
director · ~66y · appointed 1992-10-05 · resigned 2006-09-06
Resigned
DYKES, Rosemary→
director · ~96y · resigned 2019-09-07
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Century Insurance Company , 18 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 2
Century Insurance Company Limited, 18 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 2
Bond & disposition in security1 property27/08/1965—
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Recent filings (108 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-03-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-03-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-17