BLAVEN LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC160238 · ltd · incorporated 1995-09-07
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 28.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.94M
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 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 28.6y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 28.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
92 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 £1,944,860
Cash YoY
+15%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£103k
↑ 15% YoY
Net Worth
£1.9m
~ YoY
Current Assets
£1.6m
↑ 1.8% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£389k£778k£1.2m£1.6m£1.9mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£1.94M£1.93M
Current assets£1.61M£1.58M
Cash£103.4k£89.8k
Debtors£1.50M£1.49M
Net assets£1.94M£1.93M

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
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-09
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  2. 2024-11-05
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  3. 2023-10-03
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  4. 2023-09-07
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  5. 2022-09-20
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  6. 2022-09-20
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  7. 2022-09-20
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  9. 2022-09-20
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  10. 2022-09-02
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  11. 2022-09-02
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  12. 2022-04-06
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    LISTER, Julie appointed
    director
  13. 2021-11-29
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  14. 2020-12-22
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  15. 2019-08-22
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  16. 2019-02-13
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  17. 2018-11-09
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  18. 2017-12-15
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  19. 2015-04-01
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    Charge satisfied #2
  20. 2015-03-06
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    Charge satisfied #1
  21. 2006-02-21
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  22. 1997-09-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  23. 1995-09-15
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    DOW, Patricia Joan appointed
    secretary
  24. 1995-09-15
    ➕
    DOW, Henry appointed
    director
  25. 1995-09-15
    ➕
    DOW, Patricia Joan appointed
    director
  26. 1995-09-15
    ➖
    KELLY, Fred Hugh Cameron resigned
    secretary
  27. 1995-09-15
    ➖
    MACRAE, Mary Elizabeth resigned
    director
  28. 1995-09-07
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    Company incorporated
    As BLAVEN LIMITED
  29. 1995-09-07
    ➕
    KELLY, Fred Hugh Cameron appointed
    secretary
  30. 1995-09-07
    ➕
    MACRAE, Mary Elizabeth appointed
    director

Owner dependency

75/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ms Julie Lister
Individual · British · DOB 06/1983 · age 43
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control21/02/2023
Mr Henry Dow
Individual · British · DOB 04/1953 · age 73
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Patricia Joan Dow
Individual · British · DOB 07/1956 · age 70
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1995-09-07
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC68209 — Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate

Registered office

Suite G10 The Green House Business Centre
Beechwood Business Park North
Inverness
Highland
IV2 3BL
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-21
Last: 2025-09-07

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

DOW, Patricia Joan→
secretary · appointed 1995-09-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DOW, Henry→
director · ~73y · appointed 1995-09-15
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Active
DOW, Patricia Joan→
director · ~70y · appointed 1995-09-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LISTER, Julie→
director · ~43y · appointed 2022-04-06
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Active
KELLY, Fred Hugh Cameron→
secretary · appointed 1995-09-07 · resigned 1995-09-15
Resigned
MACRAE, Mary Elizabeth→
director · ~65y · appointed 1995-09-07 · resigned 1995-09-15
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Standard security1 property21/02/200601/04/2015
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property28/09/199706/03/2015

Recent filings (92 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-07
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-09-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-09-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-09-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-09-20
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2022-09-20
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-09-20
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-09-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-02