DASH (SCOTLAND) LTD

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SC155663 · ltd · incorporated 1995-01-30
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£4.41M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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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 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 77/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 3 lenders · oldest 25.8y

15/100
under pressure

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 25.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · 3 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

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
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
102 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
80/100Exceptional
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
77
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £4,407,884
Cash YoY
-17%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£106k
↓ 17% YoY
Net Worth
£4.4m
~ YoY
Current Assets
£485k
↑ 10% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£882k£1.8m£2.6m£3.5m£4.4mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£4.43M£4.38M
Current assets£485.1k£440.1k
Cash£105.6k£127.9k
Debtors£379.5k£312.1k
Net assets£4.41M£4.37M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
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  2. 2024-12-05
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  3. 2023-12-15
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  4. 2023-08-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2023-08-02
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    officers · CH01
  6. 2022-09-16
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  7. 2022-09-13
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2022-09-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
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  9. 2021-11-18
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  10. 2021-03-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2020-12-08
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  12. 2020-02-04
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    address · AD02
  13. 2019-12-20
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    address · AD01
  14. 2019-12-19
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2019-10-08
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-12-20
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-08-14
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    mortgage · MR04
  18. 2018-08-14
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    Charge satisfied #2
  19. 2018-01-16
    ➕
    LAUGHLAND, Heather Anne appointed
    director
  20. 2018-01-16
    ➕
    LAUGHLAND, Scott Robert appointed
    director
  21. 2018-01-16
    ➖
    LAUGHLAND, Derek Robert resigned
    director
  22. 2017-01-19
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    Charge satisfied #3
  23. 2013-12-24
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    Charge satisfied #1
  24. 2013-07-25
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC (SC327000)
  25. 2013-06-27
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  26. 2000-07-06
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  27. 1995-04-01
    ➕
    LAUGHLAND, Anne Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  28. 1995-04-01
    ➕
    LAUGHLAND, Anne Elizabeth appointed
    director
  29. 1995-04-01
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1995-04-01
    ➕
    LAUGHLAND, Derek Robert appointed
    director
  31. 1995-04-01
    ➖
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  32. 1995-01-30
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    Company incorporated
    As DASH (SCOTLAND) LTD
  33. 1995-01-30
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  34. 1995-01-30
    ➕
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 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

1 med ·
Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern
medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Anne Elizabeth Laughland
Individual · British · DOB 10/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares30/01/2017
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Derek Robert Laughlandceased 16/10/2017· 25-50% shares

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

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6 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
Incorporated1995-01-30
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

3 Kippenross Home Farm
Glen Road
Dunblane
FK15 0JZ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-30
Last: 2026-01-16

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

LAUGHLAND, Anne Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 1995-04-01
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Active
LAUGHLAND, Anne Elizabeth→
director · ~63y · appointed 1995-04-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LAUGHLAND, Heather Anne→
director · ~35y · appointed 2018-01-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LAUGHLAND, Scott Robert→
director · ~36y · appointed 2018-01-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-01-30 · resigned 1995-04-01
Resigned
LAUGHLAND, Derek Robert→
director · ~69y · appointed 1995-04-01 · resigned 2018-01-16
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1995-01-30 · resigned 1995-04-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC (SC327000)
A registered charge1 property25/07/201319/01/2017
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge5 properties27/06/201314/08/2018
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Standard security1 property06/07/200024/12/2013

Recent filings (102 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-12-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-15
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-08-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-08-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-14
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2022-09-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-09-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-09-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-11-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-03-09