MARCLIFFE HOTEL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC034990 · ltd · incorporated 1960-03-14

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

£4.99M

year to Feb 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

78/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation

Sector: Accommodation & food service

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 77/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 86). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 5 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (45/100).

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Refinance opportunity

14 live charges · 5 lenders · oldest 46.5y

25/100

too messy

Structure is too messy for a clean refinance right now — clean up first or expect bespoke terms.

· Oldest live charge is 46.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 5 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 53/100 (high).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (75/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

14 charges (14/14 with lender, 14/14 with type)

Directors & officers

16 officers (7 active, 16 linked, 13 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

12 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

161 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

78/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Loss-making

Loss before tax £674,877

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-02-28
Turnover	£4.99M
Gross profit	£3.87M
Operating profit	£-419.4k
Profit before tax	£-674.9k
Average employees	19400

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (74 events)Click to expand

2026-01-06
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accounts · AA
2025-03-13
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HARRIS, Gary appointed
director
2025-03-13
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officers · AP01
2024-11-27
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accounts · AA
2024-08-13
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-08-13
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officers · TM01
2024-08-09
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MILNE, Gillian, Lady appointed
director
2024-08-09
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MAIN, William Edwards resigned
director
2024-07-31
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2024-07-29
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-07-29
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-07-24
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mortgage · MR04
2024-07-24
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-07-24
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Charge satisfied #19
2024-07-24
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Charge satisfied #18
2024-07-10
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-07-10
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-07-10
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officers · TM01
2024-07-10
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-07-10
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officers · TM02
2024-07-10
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-07-10
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officers · AP01
2024-07-10
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officers · AP01
2024-07-10
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officers · AP03
2024-07-10
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address · AD01
2024-07-01
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CARTER, John Stephen appointed
director
2024-07-01
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GERRARD, Gary James appointed
director
2024-06-28
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LOWDEN, Julie Thain appointed
secretary
2024-06-28
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MILNE, James Smith, Sir appointed
director
2024-06-28
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MITCHELL, Paul Watt appointed
director
2024-06-28
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STRONACHS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2024-06-28
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MAIN, William Edwards appointed
director
2024-06-28
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SPENCE, Greg Stewart resigned
director
2024-06-28
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SPENCE, Ross John resigned
director
2024-06-18
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-06-17
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-06-14
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-06-14
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Charge satisfied #12
2024-06-14
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Charge satisfied #9
2024-06-14
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Charge satisfied #8
2024-06-14
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Charge satisfied #4
2024-06-14
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Charge satisfied #2
2021-02-19
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SPENCE, John Stewart resigned
director
2020-08-21
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Charge satisfied #21
2020-08-21
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Charge satisfied #20
2020-08-21
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Charge satisfied #14
2020-02-14
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MILNE, Calum Christie resigned
director
2018-08-01
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MILNE, Calum Christie appointed
director
2018-08-01
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SPENCE, Greg Stewart appointed
director
2018-08-01
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SPENCE, Ross John appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 74 events

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.

Red flags

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Balmoral Group Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Balmoral Group Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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MARCLIFFE HOTEL LIMITED

This company · SC034990

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Balmoral Group Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	28/06/2024

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Pitfodels Holdings Limitedceased 28/06/2024· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control
Molise Limitedceased 11/06/2024· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1960-03-14

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

Balmoral Park

Loirston

Aberdeen

AB12 3GY

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-14

Last: 2025-12-31