WEST COAST CAPITAL PROPERTIES (MARATHON HOUSE) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC188333 · ltd · incorporated 1998-08-07
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 24.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£2.59M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
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 with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.8y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
13 officers (4 active, 13 linked, 6 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
18 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
103 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
75
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 £2,588,000

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£521k
Net Worth
£2.6m
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
£0£518k£1.0m£1.6m£2.1m£2.6mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-302024-03-31
Cash£521.0k—
Net assets£2.59M—
Average employees—400

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
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (45 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-01
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  5. 2023-02-28
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    MCMAHON, James Cairns resigned
    director
  6. 2022-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-06-18
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2021-06-17
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    DAVIDSON, Paul Richmond resigned
    director
  10. 2021-01-07
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  11. 2021-01-06
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    CUMMINGS, Peter Joseph appointed
    director
  12. 2020-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-04-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2018-12-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-09-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2018-09-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2018-09-27
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  19. 2018-09-27
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  20. 2018-03-05
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  21. 2018-03-02
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    SEALES, Sharon appointed
    director
  22. 2018-02-28
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    LIVINGSTONE, William resigned
    director
  23. 2010-07-07
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    Charge satisfied #1
  24. 2009-04-16
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    LIVINGSTONE, William appointed
    director
  25. 2007-11-30
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    MURRAY, Kirsty Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  26. 2006-09-14
    ➕
    DAVIDSON, Paul Richmond appointed
    director
  27. 2006-03-20
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  28. 2006-03-20
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  29. 2006-03-13
    ➕
    SEALES, Sharon appointed
    secretary
  30. 2006-03-13
    ➖
    MCCLUSKEY, Brian resigned
    secretary
  31. 2006-03-13
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  32. 2002-06-28
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    MCCLUSKEY, Brian appointed
    secretary
  33. 2002-06-28
    ➖
    MCMAHON, James Cairns resigned
    secretary
  34. 2002-06-28
    ➖
    HUNTER, Thomas Blane, Sir resigned
    director
  35. 2001-07-06
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    MCMAHON, James Cairns appointed
    director
  36. 2001-07-06
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  37. 2001-03-07
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    MCMAHON, James Cairns appointed
    secretary
  38. 2001-03-07
    ➖
    MD SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  39. 1998-11-06
    ➕
    MD SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  40. 1998-11-06
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  41. 1998-11-06
    ➕
    HUNTER, Thomas Blane, Sir appointed
    director
  42. 1998-11-06
    ➖
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  43. 1998-08-07
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    Company incorporated
    As WEST COAST CAPITAL PROPERTIES (MARATHON HOUSE) LIMITED
  44. 1998-08-07
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  45. 1998-08-07
    ➕
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

West Coast Capital Investments Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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West Coast Capital Investments Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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WEST COAST CAPITAL PROPERTIES (MARATHON HOUSE) LIMITED
This company · SC188333

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
West Coast Capital Investments Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares30/06/2016

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

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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
Incorporated1998-08-07
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Marathon House,Olympic Business
Park,Drybridge Road,
Dundonald
Ayrshire
KA2 9AE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-30
Last made up to: 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-21
Last: 2025-08-07

Officers (4 active · 9 resigned)

MURRAY, Kirsty Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 2007-11-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SEALES, Sharon→
secretary · appointed 2006-03-13
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Active
CUMMINGS, Peter Joseph→
director · ~71y · appointed 2021-01-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SEALES, Sharon→
director · ~50y · appointed 2018-03-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCCLUSKEY, Brian→
secretary · appointed 2002-06-28 · resigned 2006-03-13
Resigned
MCMAHON, James Cairns→
secretary · appointed 2001-03-07 · resigned 2002-06-28
Resigned
MD SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-11-06 · resigned 2001-03-07
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-08-07 · resigned 1998-11-06
Resigned
DAVIDSON, Paul Richmond→
director · ~61y · appointed 2006-09-14 · resigned 2021-06-17
Resigned
HUNTER, Thomas Blane, Sir→
director · ~65y · appointed 1998-11-06 · resigned 2002-06-28
Resigned
LIVINGSTONE, William→
director · ~77y · appointed 2009-04-16 · resigned 2018-02-28
Resigned
MCMAHON, James Cairns→
director · ~77y · appointed 2001-07-06 · resigned 2023-02-28
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-08-07 · resigned 1998-11-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Standard security1 property20/03/2006—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Standard security1 property20/03/2006—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Floating charge1 property13/03/2006—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Standard security1 property06/07/200107/07/2010
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Recent filings (103 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-07
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-16
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-06-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-07