FREEPORT SCOTLAND LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC087372 · ltd · incorporated 1984-03-27
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with leveraged stack — refinance / partial-release angle.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Multiple lenders to manage; inter-creditor friction and partial-release cost possible.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 41.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£2.26M
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
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
Asset-holding vehicle with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 41.7y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 41.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
46 officers (4 active, 46 linked, 43 with DOB)
89
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
25 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
196 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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 £2,259,992

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£613k
Net Worth
£2.3m
Current Assets
£654k
Current Liabilities
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£0£452k£904k£1.4m£1.8m£2.3mDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£2.31M—
Current assets£654.0k—
Cash£613.5k—
Debtors£40.6k—
Net assets£2.26M—
Average employees—0

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (106 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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  4. 2025-02-26
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    BRAIDWOOD, Kevin appointed
    director
  5. 2025-02-26
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    NEWALL, Michael, Director resigned
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  6. 2024-05-24
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  8. 2024-04-16
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  9. 2024-01-01
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    BURGHAM, Timothy Austin appointed
    director
  10. 2023-12-31
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    ROBERTS, Thomas Edward resigned
    director
  11. 2023-04-20
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  12. 2022-11-07
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  13. 2022-11-07
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  14. 2022-10-17
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    LEIJSER, Theo resigned
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  15. 2022-10-17
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    NEWALL, Michael, Director appointed
    director
  16. 2022-09-20
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  17. 2022-09-16
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    GILLIES, Donald Martin resigned
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  18. 2022-05-17
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  19. 2021-06-02
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  20. 2021-03-25
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  21. 2021-03-25
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  22. 2021-03-20
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    JOHNSTONE, James Robert resigned
    director
  23. 2021-03-20
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    LEIJSER, Theo appointed
    director
  24. 2020-12-28
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  27. 2020-12-28
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  28. 2020-12-01
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    KILPATRICK, Zoe Claire appointed
    director
  29. 2020-12-01
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    ADAMS, Kerry resigned
    director
  30. 2020-12-01
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    ROBERTS, Thomas Edward appointed
    director
  31. 2020-12-01
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    SMITH, Alastair Cramond resigned
    director
  32. 2019-03-21
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    ADAMS, Kerry appointed
    director
  33. 2019-03-21
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    METCALFE, Timothy James resigned
    director
  34. 2017-10-01
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    LEECE, Julie resigned
    director
  35. 2017-10-01
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    METCALFE, Timothy James appointed
    director
  36. 2016-09-15
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    MCKAY, William Stewart resigned
    secretary
  37. 2016-01-29
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    JOHNSTONE, James Robert appointed
    director
  38. 2016-01-29
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    SMITH, Alastair Cramond appointed
    director
  39. 2015-08-24
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    HASTINGS, Mark Ramsay resigned
    director
  40. 2015-08-24
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    SWEENIE, Andrew Graeme resigned
    director
  41. 2013-11-20
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    Charge satisfied #3
  42. 2013-10-30
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    Charge satisfied #2
  43. 2013-06-27
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    GILLIES, Donald Martin appointed
    director
  44. 2013-06-27
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    GREENWOOD, Audrey Susan resigned
    director
  45. 2013-06-27
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    HASTINGS, Mark Ramsay appointed
    director
  46. 2013-06-27
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    HOWAT, Eileen Murdoch resigned
    director
  47. 2011-12-22
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    CURRAN, Paul resigned
    director
  48. 2011-12-22
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    LEECE, Julie appointed
    director
  49. 2011-12-22
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    SMITH, Martin James Alexander resigned
    director
  50. 2010-07-15
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    CURRAN, Paul appointed
    director
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Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • 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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
South Ayrshire Council
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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Dawn Developments Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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FREEPORT SCOTLAND LIMITED
This company · SC087372

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
South Ayrshire Council
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/09/2016
Dawn Developments Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/09/2016

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
Incorporated1984-03-27
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC68209 — Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate

Registered office

County Buildings (Financial
Services) Wellington Square
Ayr
Ayrshire
KA7 2PL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-19
Last: 2025-12-05

Officers (4 active · 42 resigned)

BRAIDWOOD, Kevin→
director · ~65y · appointed 2025-02-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURGHAM, Timothy Austin→
director · ~47y · appointed 2024-01-01
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Active
KILPATRICK, Zoe Claire→
director · ~51y · appointed 2020-12-01
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Active
ROUGH, Stewart Harley→
director · ~59y · appointed 2006-08-24
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Active
MCGRIGOR, Donald→
secretary · resigned 1996-09-16
Resigned
MCKAY, William Stewart→
secretary · appointed 1996-09-16 · resigned 2016-09-15
Resigned
ADAMS, Kerry→
director · ~40y · appointed 2019-03-21 · resigned 2020-12-01
Resigned
BAILLIE, John→
director · ~75y · appointed 1996-07-08 · resigned 1997-02-13
Resigned
BARR, William James→
director · ~87y · resigned 2010-01-21
Resigned
BEATON, John Fyfe→
director · resigned 1990-07-09
Resigned
BETT, Iain Charles Rattray→
director · ~80y · appointed 1993-01-29 · resigned 2003-05-08
Resigned
COLLINS, James→
director · ~95y · appointed 1997-03-21 · resigned 1999-08-19
Resigned
CURRAN, Paul→
director · ~54y · appointed 2010-07-15 · resigned 2011-12-22
Resigned
GAFFNEY, David→
director · ~59y · appointed 2005-01-28 · resigned 2010-07-15
Resigned
GIBSON, Alexander→
director · ~88y · resigned 1993-01-29
Resigned
GILLIES, Donald Martin→
director · ~61y · appointed 2013-06-27 · resigned 2022-09-16
Resigned
GRANT, David John→
director · ~59y · appointed 2002-12-17 · resigned 2004-06-01
Resigned
GREENWOOD, Audrey Susan→
director · ~57y · appointed 2008-03-14 · resigned 2013-06-27
Resigned
HARKNESS, Archibald Dalrymple→
director · ~87y · appointed 1993-05-20 · resigned 1996-05-17
Resigned
HASTINGS, Mark Ramsay→
director · ~68y · appointed 2013-06-27 · resigned 2015-08-24
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Standard security1 property18/04/200320/11/2013
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property07/04/200330/10/2013
satisfied
Scottish Development Agency
Standard security1 property13/09/198408/10/1987

Recent filings (196 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-09-29
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-12
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-05-24
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-05-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-04-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-04-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-16
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-11-07
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-11-07
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-05-17