BIRNIEHILL PROPERTIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC059087 · ltd · incorporated 1975-12-10
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.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 36.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-trading company
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Dormant / non-trading with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (80/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 36.4y

70/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 36.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
11 officers (3 active, 11 linked, 9 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
102 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees00

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-19
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  2. 2025-08-18
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  3. 2025-08-18
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    Charge satisfied #2
  4. 2024-08-16
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  5. 2023-09-28
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  6. 2022-09-27
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  7. 2021-09-24
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  8. 2020-09-22
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  9. 2020-02-27
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  10. 2020-02-27
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    Charge satisfied #1
  11. 2019-09-09
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  12. 2018-08-16
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  13. 2017-09-23
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  14. 2016-09-02
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  15. 2015-11-25
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  16. 2015-08-28
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  17. 2014-11-25
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  18. 2008-12-08
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  19. 2005-10-24
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    MAGUIRE, John resigned
    director
  20. 2000-12-31
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    MAGUIRE, Ian appointed
    secretary
  21. 2000-12-31
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    MAGUIRE, Ewan appointed
    director
  22. 2000-12-31
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    MAGUIRE, Ian appointed
    director
  23. 2000-12-31
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    MONCUR, James resigned
    secretary
  24. 2000-12-31
    ➖
    MAGUIRE, Agnes resigned
    director
  25. 2000-12-31
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    MAGUIRE, Mary resigned
    director
  26. 2000-12-31
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    MAGUIRE, Mary resigned
    director
  27. 2000-12-31
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    MAGUIRE, Peter resigned
    director
  28. 2000-12-31
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    MONCUR, Agnes O'Connor resigned
    director
  29. 2000-12-31
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    MONCUR, James resigned
    director
  30. 1989-12-21
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  31. 1975-12-10
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    Company incorporated
    As BIRNIEHILL PROPERTIES LIMITED

Owner dependency

84/100
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 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 50 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 Ian Maguire
Individual · British · DOB 07/1962 · age 64
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/07/2016

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

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6 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
Incorporated1975-12-10
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

Birniehill Whiteside
Whitburn Rd
Bathgate
West Lothian
EH48 2HR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-27
Last: 2025-11-13

Officers (3 active · 8 resigned)

MAGUIRE, Ian→
secretary · appointed 2000-12-31
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Active
MAGUIRE, Ewan→
director · ~53y · appointed 2000-12-31
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Active
MAGUIRE, Ian→
director · ~64y · appointed 2000-12-31
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Active
MONCUR, James→
secretary · resigned 2000-12-31
Resigned
MAGUIRE, Agnes→
director · ~84y · resigned 2000-12-31
Resigned
MAGUIRE, John→
director · ~91y · resigned 2005-10-24
Resigned
MAGUIRE, Mary→
director · ~82y · resigned 2000-12-31
Resigned
MAGUIRE, Mary→
director · ~88y · resigned 2000-12-31
Resigned
MAGUIRE, Peter→
director · ~84y · resigned 2000-12-31
Resigned
MONCUR, Agnes O'Connor→
director · ~89y · resigned 2000-12-31
Resigned
MONCUR, James→
director · ~91y · resigned 2000-12-31
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
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Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Floating charge1 property08/12/200818/08/2025
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property21/12/198927/02/2020

Recent filings (102 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-19
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2025-08-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-22
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2020-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-25