BARONY HOMES LTD.

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SC338809 · ltd · incorporated 2008-03-04
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£456.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Buying and selling of own real estate
Sector: Real estate
Investor take
Pursue
Property-backed borrower with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -75% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 11.1y

30/100
under pressure

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 1 with DOB)
74
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
48 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
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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £456,500
Net assets shrinking
Down £4,378 YoY
Cash draining
Cash down 75% YoY
Cash YoY
-75%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£299
↓ 75% YoY
Net Worth
£457k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£12k
↓ 99% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£205k£411k£616k£822k£1.0mApr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Total assets£456.5k£460.9k
Current assets£11.7k£1.03M
Cash£299£1.2k
Debtors£11.4k£1.03M
Net assets£456.5k£460.9k

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 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2025-01-28
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  3. 2024-01-31
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  4. 2023-04-28
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  5. 2022-04-28
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-04-29
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-04-03
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    mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
    mortgage · 466(Scot)
  8. 2020-03-18
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  9. 2020-03-17
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Glasgow City Council
  10. 2020-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-07-11
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  12. 2018-01-31
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  13. 2017-04-27
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-03-23
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    mortgage · MR04
  15. 2017-03-23
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    Charge satisfied #2
  16. 2016-03-04
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    annual-return · AR01
  17. 2016-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  18. 2015-06-05
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  19. 2015-03-09
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  20. 2008-07-01
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    RODDIE, Jayne appointed
    secretary
  21. 2008-07-01
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    RODDIE, William James appointed
    director
  22. 2008-03-04
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    Company incorporated
    As BARONY HOMES LTD.
  23. 2008-03-04
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    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-secretary
  24. 2008-03-04
    ➖
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2008-03-04
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    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-director
  26. 2008-03-04
    ➖
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-director
  27. 2008-03-04
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    PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. appointed
    corporate-director
  28. 2008-03-04
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    PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

93/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

88/100
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 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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 William James Roddie
Individual · Scottish · DOB 06/1962 · age 64
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

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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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
Incorporated2008-03-04
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

120 Carstairs Street
Dalmarnock
Glasgow
G40 4JD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-04
Last: 2025-11-20

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

RODDIE, Jayne→
secretary · appointed 2008-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RODDIE, William James→
director · ~64y · appointed 2008-07-01
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Active
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2008-03-04 · resigned 2008-03-04
Resigned
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-director · appointed 2008-03-04 · resigned 2008-03-04
Resigned
PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD.→
corporate-director · appointed 2008-03-04 · resigned 2008-03-04
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Glasgow City Council
A registered charge1 property17/03/2020—
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property05/06/201523/03/2017
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge—09/03/2015—
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Recent filings (48 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-01
mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
mortgage · 466(Scot)
2020-04-03
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2020-03-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-03