RTS CONTRACTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC205745 · ltd · incorporated 2000-04-03
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 23.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£961.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Joinery installation
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (80/100, director aged 61). 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

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 23.8y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
9 officers (3 active, 9 linked, 4 with DOB)
79
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
107 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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 £961,387
Net assets shrinking
Down £537,004 YoY
Cash YoY
+141%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£93k
↑ 141% YoY
Net Worth
£961k
↓ 36% YoY
Current Assets
£2.4m
↓ 47% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£903k£1.8m£2.7m£3.6m£4.5mApr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Total assets£961.4k£1.50M
Current assets£2.41M£4.52M
Cash£92.8k£38.5k
Debtors£2.29M£4.47M
Net assets£961.4k£1.50M

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 signals 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-31
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  3. 2024-07-25
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  4. 2024-01-31
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-07-14
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    officers · TM01
  6. 2023-07-07
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    HOUGHTON, Anna Helen resigned
    director
  7. 2023-04-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-03-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2022-03-16
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  10. 2022-03-16
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  11. 2022-03-16
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  12. 2022-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-02-07
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  15. 2020-02-07
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  16. 2020-02-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-02-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-11-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2016-05-13
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    Charge satisfied #3
  20. 2014-12-17
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    HOUGHTON, Anna Helen appointed
    secretary
  21. 2014-12-17
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    MURDOCH, Keith David resigned
    secretary
  22. 2014-11-01
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    MURDOCH, Keith David resigned
    director
  23. 2011-10-14
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  24. 2010-01-22
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    Charge satisfied #1
  25. 2009-09-18
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  26. 2009-05-01
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    HOUGHTON, Anna Helen appointed
    director
  27. 2005-05-18
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    LAMBERT, Michael appointed
    director
  28. 2002-07-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  29. 2000-05-22
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    ROSE, David Lee appointed
    director
  30. 2000-05-22
    ➕
    MURDOCH, Keith David appointed
    secretary
  31. 2000-05-22
    ➖
    TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 2000-05-22
    ➕
    MURDOCH, Keith David appointed
    director
  33. 2000-05-22
    ➖
    REYNARD NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  34. 2000-05-22
    ➖
    TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  35. 2000-04-03
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    Company incorporated
    As RTS CONTRACTS LIMITED
  36. 2000-04-03
    ➕
    TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  37. 2000-04-03
    ➕
    REYNARD NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  38. 2000-04-03
    ➕
    TM COMPANY SERVICES 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
  • +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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
  • 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 26 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

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

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Rts Construction Group Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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RTS CONTRACTS LIMITED
This company · SC205745

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Rts Construction Group Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting20/11/2017
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr David Lee Roseceased 20/11/2017· significant influence

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
Incorporated2000-04-03
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC43320 — Joinery installation

Registered office

Ellersley House
30 Miller Road
Ayr
South Ayrshire
KA7 2AY
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-20
Last: 2025-11-06

Officers (3 active · 6 resigned)

HOUGHTON, Anna Helen→
secretary · appointed 2014-12-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LAMBERT, Michael→
director · ~61y · appointed 2005-05-18
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Active
ROSE, David Lee→
director · ~58y · appointed 2000-05-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MURDOCH, Keith David→
secretary · appointed 2000-05-22 · resigned 2014-12-17
Resigned
TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-04-03 · resigned 2000-05-22
Resigned
HOUGHTON, Anna Helen→
director · ~57y · appointed 2009-05-01 · resigned 2023-07-07
Resigned
MURDOCH, Keith David→
director · ~70y · appointed 2000-05-22 · resigned 2014-11-01
Resigned
REYNARD NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-04-03 · resigned 2000-05-22
Resigned
TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-04-03 · resigned 2000-05-22
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property14/10/201113/05/2016
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Floating charge1 property18/09/2009—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property15/07/200222/01/2010
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Recent filings (107 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-06
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-07-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-06
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-07-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-04-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-03-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-03-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-03-16
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2022-03-16