HOLIDAYS ALGARVE LTD

💤Zombieactive

SC385096 · ltd · incorporated 2010-09-09

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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Steady and stalled — no momentum either way. Needs an approach trigger.

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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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: Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis

Sector: Real estate

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

1 officers (1 active, 1 linked, 1 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

32 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years 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

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Average employees	100	100

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand

2025-09-30
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2024-09-23
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2023-09-22
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2022-09-28
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2021-09-29
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2020-12-24
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2019-09-27
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2018-09-25
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2017-09-26
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2016-09-28
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2015-09-25
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2015-09-11
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2014-09-26
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2014-09-15
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2010-09-09
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Company incorporated
As HOLIDAYS ALGARVE LTD
2010-09-09
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CLEMINSON, Dale appointed
director

Owner dependency

98/100

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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
+No director turnover: Company is 16 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

78/100

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 62. 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

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 · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Dale Cleminson Individual · British · DOB 01/1964 · age 62	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	01/06/2016

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

Incorporated2010-09-09

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC68320 — Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis

Registered office

20 Barnton Street

Stirling

Stirlingshire

FK8 1NE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-23

Last: 2025-09-09

Officers (1 active · 0 resigned)

CLEMINSON, Dale→

director · ~62y · appointed 2010-09-09

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Recent filings (32 total)

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2025-09-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-09-30

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-09-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-09-23

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-09-28

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-09-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-09-28

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2022-09-28

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2021-09-29

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-09-29

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2020-12-24

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-09-10

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2019-09-27

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2019-09-09

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2018-09-25