THOMAS A. ROONEY (PROPERTIES) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC054997 · ltd · incorporated 1974-02-07

Investment thesis

Unencumbered property vehicle — clean asset-backed target with refinance headroom.

Why interesting: Property-holding entity with no live charges; straightforward asset-backed case.

Why risky: Values depend on title and valuation; property-specific market exposure.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£566.9k

book net assets

Opportunity

78/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Buying and selling of own real estate

Sector: Real estate

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

95 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.

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Opportunity Score

78/100Strong

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Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £566,853

Net assets shrinking

Down £7,260 YoY

Cash YoY

-16%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£115k

↓ 16% YoY

Net Worth

£567k

↓ 1.3% YoY

Current Assets

£131k

↓ 19% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£632.3k	£639.5k
Current assets	£130.7k	£161.6k
Cash	£115.3k	£136.9k
Debtors	£15.4k	£24.8k
Net assets	£566.9k	£574.1k

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

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand

2025-12-18
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2024-12-31
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2023-09-04
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2023-08-30
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
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2022-08-22
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accounts · AA
2021-09-10
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2020-11-18
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2019-10-08
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2018-09-20
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2017-07-24
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2016-07-11
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2015-08-20
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annual-return · AR01
2015-08-14
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2014-08-19
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annual-return · AR01
2014-08-08
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1993-09-10
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ROONEY, Catherine Stewart resigned
director
1974-02-07
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Company incorporated
As THOMAS A. ROONEY (PROPERTIES) LIMITED

Owner dependency

96/100

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.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "ROONEY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 52 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Thomas Anthony Rooney Individual · British · DOB 04/1948 · age 78	50–75%	—	50-75% shares	06/04/2016
Mrs Edwina Bartlett Henderson Rooney Individual · British · DOB 10/1948 · age 78	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	30/08/2023

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

Incorporated1974-02-07

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

29 Barnshot Road

Edinburgh

EH13 0DJ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-27

Last: 2025-08-13

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ROONEY, Thomas Anthony→

secretary

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Active

ROONEY, Edwina Bartlett Henderson→

director · ~78y

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Active

ROONEY, Thomas Anthony→

director · ~78y

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Active

ROONEY, Catherine Stewart→

director · ~102y · resigned 1993-09-10

Resigned

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Recent filings (95 total)

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accounts · AA

2025-12-18

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-08-15

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

accounts · AA

2024-12-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-08-26

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

accounts · AA

2023-09-04

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC01

2023-08-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-08-25

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

accounts · AA

2022-08-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-08-16

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-10-06

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

accounts · AA

2021-09-10

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

accounts · AA

2020-11-18

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-08-13

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

accounts · AA

2019-10-08

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2019-08-21