SOUTHBANK GUEST HOUSE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC392731 · ltd · incorporated 2011-02-02
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£-67.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. 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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
41 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £67,102

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
-£67k
↓ 40% YoY
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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-£67k-£63k-£59k-£56k-£52k-£48kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Net assets£-67.1k£-48.1k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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  2. 2024-10-02
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  3. 2023-09-27
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-02-23
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    address · AD01
  5. 2023-02-20
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  6. 2022-11-17
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  7. 2021-12-20
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  8. 2020-12-17
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  9. 2019-11-28
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  10. 2019-10-30
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    officers · CH01
  11. 2018-12-11
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  12. 2018-08-23
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  13. 2018-08-23
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  14. 2018-08-23
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  15. 2018-08-01
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  16. 2018-08-01
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  17. 2018-08-01
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    address · AD01
  18. 2011-02-02
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    Company incorporated
    As SOUTHBANK GUEST HOUSE LIMITED
  19. 2011-02-02
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    REID, Isabel Jane appointed
    director
  20. 2011-02-02
    ➕
    REID, Malcolm Clunas appointed
    director

Owner dependency

96/100
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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 15 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
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 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Malcom Clunas Reid
Individual · British · DOB 12/1958 · age 68
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control · firm interest06/04/2016
Mrs Isabel Jane Reid
Individual · British · DOB 07/1960 · age 66
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control · firm interest06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2011-02-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

36 Academy Street
Elgin
IV30 1LP
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-16
Last: 2026-02-02

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

REID, Isabel Jane→
director · ~66y · appointed 2011-02-02
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Active
REID, Malcolm Clunas→
director · ~68y · appointed 2011-02-02
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Active

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Recent filings (41 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-10
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accounts · AA
2025-12-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-26
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accounts · AA
2024-10-02
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-23
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-02-23
move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-address
address · AD04
2023-02-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-17
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-02-25