GLENEAGLES ESTATE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC123050 · ltd · incorporated 1990-02-16
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 33.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£7.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 33.4y

50/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 33.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
30 officers (2 active, 30 linked, 20 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
165 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £7,415

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£7k
Current Assets
£35
Current Liabilities
—
£0£1k£3k£4k£6k£7kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£33.0k—
Current assets£35—
Net assets£7.4k—
Average employees—0

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
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 (79 events)Click to expand
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  18. 2022-10-27
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    HALDANE, James Alexander appointed
    director
  19. 2022-10-27
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    STRANG STEEL, Malcolm Graham resigned
    director
  20. 2022-02-15
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  21. 2020-08-27
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  22. 2018-06-04
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    TURCAN CONNELL COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2012-01-16
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    HALDANE, James Martin resigned
    secretary
  24. 2012-01-16
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    TURCAN CONNELL COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2001-04-06
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    BAILEY, Stephen Graham resigned
    secretary
  26. 2001-04-06
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    HALDANE, James Martin appointed
    secretary
  27. 2001-04-06
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    AIKMAN, John Kenneth Gresham resigned
    director
  28. 2001-04-06
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    BAILEY, Stephen Graham resigned
    director
  29. 2001-04-06
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    STRANG STEEL, Malcolm Graham appointed
    director
  30. 2000-04-27
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    BURRELL, Peter Martin appointed
    director
  31. 2000-04-27
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    BURRELL, Peter Martin resigned
    director
  32. 1999-06-25
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    BAILEY, Stephen Graham appointed
    secretary
  33. 1999-06-25
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    WOODS, William Philip resigned
    secretary
  34. 1999-06-25
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    BAILEY, Stephen Graham appointed
    director
  35. 1999-06-25
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    WOODS, William Philip resigned
    director
  36. 1998-09-07
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    MITCHELL, David Smith resigned
    director
  37. 1998-06-19
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    Charge satisfied #3
  38. 1998-06-09
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    MAINS, Thomas Gordon resigned
    secretary
  39. 1998-06-09
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    WOODS, William Philip appointed
    secretary
  40. 1998-06-09
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    AIKMAN, John Kenneth Gresham appointed
    director
  41. 1998-06-09
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    MAINS, Thomas Gordon resigned
    director
  42. 1998-06-09
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    WOODS, William Philip appointed
    director
  43. 1998-06-09
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    ZANETTI, Christopher Frederick resigned
    director
  44. 1998-06-09
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: James Alexander Haldane and Others as Trustees of the Gleneagles Trust
  45. 1998-03-20
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    MACFARLANE, Peter Froude resigned
    director
  46. 1998-03-20
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    MITCHELL, David Smith appointed
    director
  47. 1997-08-01
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    MAINS, Thomas Gordon appointed
    secretary
  48. 1997-08-01
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    MARCUS, Anthony Herbert Mervyn resigned
    secretary
  49. 1997-08-01
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    MAINS, Thomas Gordon appointed
    director
  50. 1997-08-01
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    MARCUS, Anthony Herbert Mervyn resigned
    director
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Owner dependency

91/100
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 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

56/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — HALDANE, James Alexander (same surname) appointed 2022-10-27. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 85 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 36 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.)

Group structure

Trustees Of Gleneagles 1996 Trust is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Trustees Of Gleneagles 1996 Trust
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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GLENEAGLES ESTATE LIMITED
This company · SC123050

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Trustees Of Gleneagles 1996 Trust
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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7 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
Incorporated1990-02-16
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Chiene + Tait Llp
61 Dublin Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6NL
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-30
Last: 2026-01-16

Officers (2 active · 28 resigned)

HALDANE, James Alexander→
director · ~51y · appointed 2022-10-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HALDANE, James Martin→
director · ~85y · appointed 1992-10-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BAILEY, Stephen Graham→
secretary · appointed 1999-06-25 · resigned 2001-04-06
Resigned
BEAUMONT-GRAY, George→
secretary · appointed 1991-01-31 · resigned 1992-10-21
Resigned
HALDANE, James Martin→
secretary · appointed 2001-04-06 · resigned 2012-01-16
Resigned
HAMILTON, John Stewart→
secretary · appointed 1992-10-21 · resigned 1992-11-24
Resigned
MAINS, Thomas Gordon→
secretary · appointed 1997-08-01 · resigned 1998-06-09
Resigned
MARCUS, Anthony Herbert Mervyn→
secretary · appointed 1996-02-01 · resigned 1997-08-01
Resigned
SHARIFI, Saied→
secretary · appointed 1990-04-06 · resigned 1993-01-30
Resigned
WALLWORK, Alan Charles→
secretary · resigned 1996-02-01
Resigned
WOODS, William Philip→
secretary · appointed 1998-06-09 · resigned 1999-06-25
Resigned
TURCAN CONNELL COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2012-01-16 · resigned 2018-06-04
Resigned
AIKMAN, John Kenneth Gresham→
director · ~79y · appointed 1998-06-09 · resigned 2001-04-06
Resigned
BAILEY, Stephen Graham→
director · ~61y · appointed 1999-06-25 · resigned 2001-04-06
Resigned
BEHJAT, Mohammad Kazem→
director · ~64y · appointed 1990-04-06 · resigned 1991-01-30
Resigned
BURRELL, Peter Martin→
director · ~79y · appointed 2000-04-27 · resigned 2000-04-27
Resigned
EASTLAND, David Francis→
director · ~82y · appointed 1995-08-22 · resigned 1996-02-01
Resigned
HAMILTON, John Stewart→
director · ~88y · appointed 1992-06-11 · resigned 1992-11-24
Resigned
HODGES, Robert Bruce→
director · ~88y · appointed 1992-11-24 · resigned 1994-10-27
Resigned
MACFARLANE, Peter Froude→
director · ~98y · appointed 1995-08-22 · resigned 1998-03-20
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
James Alexander Haldane and Others as Trustees of the Gleneagles Trust
Floating charge1 property09/06/1998—
satisfied
Brodrick Vernon Chinnery Haldane & Others
Floating charge1 property26/11/199219/06/1998
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Recent filings (165 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-10
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2025-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
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2024-12-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
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2024-05-07
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-03-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
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2024-01-17
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2023-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
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2023-01-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2023-01-20