BALVICAR HOTELS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC373878 · ltd · incorporated 2010-03-01
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.47M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -55% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
3 live charges · oldest 16.0y
45/100
under pressure
Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.
- · Oldest live charge is 16.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.
Data confidence
Overall: high (82/100)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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
49 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 declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £1,473,564
Cash draining
Cash down 55% YoY
Cash YoY
-55%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£56k
↓ 55% YoY
Net Worth
£1.5m
↑ 9.1% YoY
Current Assets
£134k
↓ 48% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £1.48M | £1.61M |
| Current assets | £133.5k | £256.1k |
| Cash | £56.2k | £124.7k |
| Debtors | £77.4k | £131.4k |
| Net assets | £1.47M | £1.35M |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
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See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-07📄second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-dateconfirmation-statement · RP04CS01
- 2023-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-14📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statementpersons-with-significant-control · PSC08
- 2023-04-14📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2022-12-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-22📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-03-14➕PUREWAL, Jagvinder Singh appointeddirector
- 2021-11-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-03-23📄legacymiscellaneous · RP04CS01
- 2019-12-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-03📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2018-10-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-12-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2010-08-24🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-08-24🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-04-28🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2010-03-01🏢Company incorporatedAs BALVICAR HOTELS LIMITED
- 2010-03-01➕PUREWAL, Makhan Singh appointeddirector
- 2010-03-01➕SINGH, Jagtar appointeddirector
- 2010-03-01➕BRIAN REID LTD. appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2010-03-01➖BRIAN REID LTD. resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2010-03-01➕MABBOTT, Stephen George appointeddirector
- 2010-03-01➖MABBOTT, Stephen George resigneddirector
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
83/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2010-03-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation
Registered office
Radleigh House 1 Golf Road
Clarkston
Glasgow
G76 7HU
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-18
Last: 2026-03-04
Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)
PUREWAL, Jagvinder Singh→
Activedirector · ~57y · appointed 2022-03-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
PUREWAL, Makhan Singh→
Activedirector · ~75y · appointed 2010-03-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SINGH, Jagtar→
Activedirector · ~79y · appointed 2010-03-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BRIAN REID LTD.→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2010-03-01 · resigned 2010-03-01
MABBOTT, Stephen George→
Resigneddirector · ~76y · appointed 2010-03-01 · resigned 2010-03-01
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Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 24/08/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Standard security | 2 properties | 24/08/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Floating charge | 1 property | 28/04/2010 | — |
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Recent filings (49 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-11
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2024-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2023-04-14
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-04-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-31
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-08