M & W MORTGAGES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC293203 · ltd · incorporated 2005-11-15
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other activities auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
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
52 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees100100

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

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 (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2024-09-12
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  3. 2023-09-27
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  4. 2022-09-28
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  5. 2021-09-21
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  6. 2020-09-23
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  7. 2019-11-19
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  8. 2019-09-18
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  9. 2018-09-07
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  10. 2017-09-20
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  11. 2016-09-23
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  12. 2015-12-08
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  13. 2015-09-15
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  14. 2014-12-04
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  15. 2014-09-25
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  16. 2007-02-01
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    WALLACE, Helen Catherine Stewart appointed
    secretary
  17. 2007-02-01
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    WALLACE, Helen Catherine Stewart appointed
    director
  18. 2007-02-01
    ➕
    WALLACE, Mark John Bryan appointed
    director
  19. 2007-01-31
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    MCNEILL, David resigned
    secretary
  20. 2007-01-31
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    MCNEILL, David resigned
    director
  21. 2005-11-15
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    Company incorporated
    As M & W MORTGAGES LIMITED
  22. 2005-11-15
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    WALLACE, Bryan appointed
    director
  23. 2005-11-15
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    MCNEILL, David appointed
    secretary
  24. 2005-11-15
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    MCNEILL, David appointed
    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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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 Mark John Bryan Wallace
Individual · British · DOB 12/1984 · age 42
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting15/11/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Helen Catherine Stewart Wallaceceased 05/04/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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
Incorporated2005-11-15
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC66190 — Other activities auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding

Registered office

8 Eskfield Grove
Eskbank
Midlothian
EH22 3FA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-29
Last: 2025-11-15

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

WALLACE, Helen Catherine Stewart→
secretary · appointed 2007-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WALLACE, Bryan→
director · ~71y · appointed 2005-11-15
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Active
WALLACE, Helen Catherine Stewart→
director · ~73y · appointed 2007-02-01
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Active
WALLACE, Mark John Bryan→
director · ~42y · appointed 2007-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCNEILL, David→
secretary · appointed 2005-11-15 · resigned 2007-01-31
Resigned
MCNEILL, David→
director · ~64y · appointed 2005-11-15 · resigned 2007-01-31
Resigned

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Recent filings (52 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-19
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2025-09-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
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accounts · AA
2024-09-12
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-09-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-19
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-11-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-09-18