WILLOWSKI PROPERTIES (DINGWALL) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC225430 · ltd · incorporated 2001-11-16
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 22.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Residential nursing care activities
Sector: Human health & social work
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 22.4y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-08-31
Average employees0

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-28
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-09-11
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  3. 2025-05-29
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-04-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-05-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-05-24
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-05-18
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    mortgage · MR04
  8. 2022-05-18
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    Charge satisfied #1
  9. 2021-05-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-05-28
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-05-07
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-05-21
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-03-13
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-11-30
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2015-11-20
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2015-05-14
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2013-10-11
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    Charge satisfied #2
  18. 2004-06-07
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  19. 2004-01-12
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  20. 2001-11-16
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    Company incorporated
    As WILLOWSKI PROPERTIES (DINGWALL) LIMITED
  21. 2001-11-16
    ➕
    WILLOUGHHBY, Grant appointed
    secretary
  22. 2001-11-16
    ➕
    KRZYZANOWSKI, Monica appointed
    director
  23. 2001-11-16
    ➕
    WILLOUGHHBY, Grant appointed
    director
  24. 2001-11-16
    ➕
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2001-11-16
    ➖
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2001-11-16
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  27. 2001-11-16
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Grant Willoughby
Individual · United Kingdom · DOB 10/1956 · age 70
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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

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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2001-11-16
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC87100 — Residential nursing care activities

Registered office

6 Cononbrae Close
Conon Bridge
Dingwall
Ross-Shire
IV7 8BF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last: 2025-11-16

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

WILLOUGHHBY, Grant→
secretary · appointed 2001-11-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KRZYZANOWSKI, Monica→
director · ~71y · appointed 2001-11-16
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Active
WILLOUGHHBY, Grant→
director · ~70y · appointed 2001-11-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-11-16 · resigned 2001-11-16
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-11-16 · resigned 2001-11-16
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Standard security1 property07/06/200411/10/2013
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property12/01/200418/05/2022

Recent filings (68 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-21
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AAMD
2025-09-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-24
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-05-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-28