ABERDEEN SURVEYORS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC311380 · ltd · incorporated 2006-11-02

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 19.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Nov 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 19.2y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 19.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

10 officers (6 active, 10 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

81 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

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-11-30	2023-11-30
Average employees	1400	1400

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand

2025-08-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-15
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capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2023-12-14
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capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2023-12-14
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capital · SH03
2023-12-13
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-12-13
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-12-12
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capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2023-08-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-30
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officers · TM01
2022-08-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-30
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WALKER, Eilidh Kerr resigned
director
2021-11-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-15
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-03-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-06
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change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2021-01-06
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2019-12-01
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ROSE, Nicholas James appointed
director
2019-11-13
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-08-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2015-12-01
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WALKER, Eilidh Kerr appointed
director
2010-05-06
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JAMES AND GEORGE COLLIE LLP appointed
corporate-secretary
2010-05-06
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MESSRS. KINNEAR & FALCONER resigned
corporate-secretary
2008-12-01
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CLOUSTON, Andrew appointed
director
2007-02-02
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2006-11-02
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Company incorporated
As ABERDEEN SURVEYORS LIMITED
2006-11-02
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GIBB, Gordon Drummond appointed
director
2006-11-02
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MACDONALD, Gordon Sturrock Marr appointed
director
2006-11-02
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MURRAY, Donald appointed
director
2006-11-02
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BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2006-11-02
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2006-11-02
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MESSRS. KINNEAR & FALCONER appointed
corporate-secretary
2006-11-02
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2006-11-02
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
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Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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.)

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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

Incorporated2006-11-02

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74909 — Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Registered office

1 East Craibstone Street

Aberdeen

Aberdeenshire

AB11 6YQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-08-31

Last made up to: 2024-11-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-16

Last: 2025-11-02