ST JOHNSTOUN PROPERTY COMPANY (PERTH) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC032850 · ltd · incorporated 1958-02-07

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 50.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

£22.5k

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-trading company

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Dormant / non-trading with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 87). 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 50.0y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 50.0 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: high (82/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

14 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

103 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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

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 · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £22,500

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£23k

~ YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Total assets	£22.5k	£22.5k
Debtors	£22.5k	£22.5k
Net assets	£22.5k	£22.5k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-03-11
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2025-03-25
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2024-03-22
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2023-03-15
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2022-03-18
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2021-06-16
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2020-03-24
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2019-03-26
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2018-03-20
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2017-03-13
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2016-06-13
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2016-06-13
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officers · CH01
2016-06-13
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officers · CH01
2016-06-13
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officers · CH03
2016-03-18
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accounts · AA
2015-06-03
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2000-06-07
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WATT, Alan James appointed
secretary
2000-06-07
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WATT, Irene appointed
director
2000-06-07
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GEE, Dudley Spencer resigned
secretary
2000-06-07
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GEE, Dudley Spencer resigned
director
1996-01-25
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GEE, Dudley Spencer appointed
secretary
1996-01-25
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DORMAN JEFFREY MANAGEMENT LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
1976-06-02
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
1958-02-07
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Company incorporated
As ST JOHNSTOUN PROPERTY COMPANY (PERTH) LIMITED

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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 87 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100

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.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 68 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.)

Group structure

Blythswood Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Blythswood Group Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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ST JOHNSTOUN PROPERTY COMPANY (PERTH) LIMITED

This company · SC032850

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Blythswood Group Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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

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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

Incorporated1958-02-07

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

160 West George Street

Glasgow

G2 2HQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-14

Last: 2025-05-31

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

WATT, Alan James→

secretary · appointed 2000-06-07

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Active

WATT, Irene→

director · ~86y · appointed 2000-06-07

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Active

WATT FRICS, Alan James→

director · ~87y

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Active

GEE, Dudley Spencer→

secretary · appointed 1996-01-25 · resigned 2000-06-07

Resigned

DORMAN JEFFREY MANAGEMENT LIMITED→

corporate-secretary · resigned 1996-01-25

Resigned

GEE, Dudley Spencer→

director · ~73y · resigned 2000-06-07

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland	Standard security	1 property	02/06/1976	—

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Recent filings (103 total)

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2026-03-11

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-08-06

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

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2025-03-25

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-06-11

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

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2024-03-22

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-06-05

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-03-15

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-07-29

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2022-03-18

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-06-16

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-06-09

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-07-06

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2020-03-24

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2019-06-12

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2019-03-26