BLP 2004-51 LIMITED

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SC266983 · ltd · incorporated 2004-04-26
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Buying and selling of own real estate
Sector: Real estate
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. 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
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 2 with DOB)
76
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
64 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees00

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-28
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  2. 2026-01-05
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  3. 2025-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-01-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-09-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-01-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-02-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  8. 2021-04-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-07-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-01-04
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-09-26
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    address · AD01
  12. 2018-09-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  13. 2018-09-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2018-03-07
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  15. 2018-03-07
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  16. 2018-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  17. 2012-04-01
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    TURCAN CONNELL COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2012-04-01
    ➖
    TURCAN CONNELL WS resigned
    corporate-secretary
  19. 2011-12-16
    ➖
    ALLISON, Robert resigned
    director
  20. 2004-04-30
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    ALLISON, Alexander George appointed
    director
  21. 2004-04-30
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    BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2004-04-30
    ➕
    TURCAN CONNELL WS appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2004-04-30
    ➕
    ALLISON, Robert appointed
    director
  24. 2004-04-30
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    BLP CREATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 2004-04-30
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    BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  26. 2004-04-26
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    Company incorporated
    As BLP 2004-51 LIMITED
  27. 2004-04-26
    ➕
    BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 2004-04-26
    ➕
    BLP CREATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  29. 2004-04-26
    ➕
    BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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

Turcan Connell (Trustees) Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Turcan Connell (Trustees) Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control
significant stake
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BLP 2004-51 LIMITED
This company · SC266983

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Turcan Connell (Trustees) Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Robert Allisonceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares · 25-50% 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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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
Incorporated2004-04-26
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

Princes Exchange
1 Earl Grey Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9EE
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-10
Last: 2026-04-26

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

TURCAN CONNELL COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2012-04-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ALLISON, Alexander George→
director · ~72y · appointed 2004-04-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-04-26 · resigned 2004-04-30
Resigned
TURCAN CONNELL WS→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2004-04-30 · resigned 2012-04-01
Resigned
ALLISON, Robert→
director · ~103y · appointed 2004-04-30 · resigned 2011-12-16
Resigned
BLP CREATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-04-26 · resigned 2004-04-30
Resigned
BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-04-26 · resigned 2004-04-30
Resigned

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Recent filings (64 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-08
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-01-28
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-01-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-01-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-09-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-02-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-04-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-05