JOYFIELDS PROPERTIES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC369925 · ltd · incorporated 2009-12-10
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with leveraged stack — refinance / partial-release angle.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Multiple lenders to manage; inter-creditor friction and partial-release cost possible.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 16.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£65.6k
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
78/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Sector: Real estate
Investor take
PursueProperty-backed borrower with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 70/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 10 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (85/100).
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Refinance opportunity
12 live charges · oldest 16.2y
75/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 16.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 40/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
- · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.
Data confidence
Overall: high (82/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
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Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
12 charges (12/12 with lender, 12/12 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
49 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
82
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Profitable
Profit before tax £54,998
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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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| Metric | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £65.6k | — |
| Gross profit | £23.8k | — |
| Operating profit | £55.0k | — |
| Profit before tax | £55.0k | — |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-04-10📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2024-04-09📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2024-04-09📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2024-04-08➖SYME, Jill resigneddirector
- 2024-03-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-12📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2023-08-22📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-08-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-11➖SYME, John Ronald Wilson resigneddirector
- 2022-09-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-09-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-09-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-08-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-07-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-08-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-09-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2011-10-21🔒Charge registered #12Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2011-10-21🔒Charge registered #11Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2011-04-01🔒Charge registered #10Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2011-02-08🔒Charge registered #9Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2011-01-26🔒Charge registered #8Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2011-01-18🔒Charge registered #7Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-05-31🔒Charge registered #6Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-04-23🔒Charge registered #5Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-03-17🔒Charge registered #4Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-03-17🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-03-17🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-03-17🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2009-12-10🏢Company incorporatedAs JOYFIELDS PROPERTIES LIMITED
- 2009-12-10➕SYME, Ralph David Abercrombie appointedsecretary
- 2009-12-10➕SYME, Ralph David Abercrombie appointeddirector
- 2009-12-10➕SYME, Jill appointeddirector
- 2009-12-10➕SYME, John Ronald Wilson appointeddirector
Owner dependency
93/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
78/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
- primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
1 low12 live charges
lowHeavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.
Group structure
Nationspaces Developments Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.
🏛️significant stake
Nationspaces Developments Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
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JOYFIELDS PROPERTIES LIMITED
This company · SC369925
Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Ralph David Abercrombie Syme Individual · British · DOB 05/1966 · age 60 | 50–75% | 50–75% | board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
Nationspaces Developments Limited Corporate entity | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 08/04/2024 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mrs Jill Symeceased 08/04/2024· 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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Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-12-10
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC68209 — Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Registered office
1 Greenhill Avenue
Giffnock
Glasgow
G46 6QX
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-24
Last: 2025-12-10
Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)
SYME, Ralph David Abercrombie→
Activesecretary · appointed 2009-12-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SYME, Ralph David Abercrombie→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2009-12-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SYME, Jill→
Resigneddirector · ~65y · appointed 2009-12-10 · resigned 2024-04-08
SYME, John Ronald Wilson→
Resigneddirector · ~92y · appointed 2009-12-10 · resigned 2023-03-11
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Mortgages & charges
12
Total charges
12
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:12 of 12 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 21/10/2011 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 21/10/2011 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 01/04/2011 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 08/02/2011 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 26/01/2011 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 18/01/2011 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 31/05/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 23/04/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 17/03/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 17/03/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 17/03/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 17/03/2010 | — |
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Recent filings (49 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-28
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-04-10
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-04-09
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-21
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-01-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-12
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-08-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-22