What a buyer sees
BLACKHEATH CATOR ESTATE RESIDENTS LIMITED
Other service activities n.e.c. · London · 00857194
9staff · FY2023
61years trading
—oldest owner on file
£440kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£891kfor the year to 2023
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff9
20219 → 92023
Cash at bank£440k
2021£847k → £440k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£98,989in the middle half
£10,500£42,667£293,310
Debtor daysdays6below almost all
1141156
Creditor daysdays25
1033152
Stock daysdays1below almost all
823163
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 3
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 12 to 9A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 3
- 61 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 40 for the middle of 262 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 22 for the middle of 138 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 70since 2021
- 68since 2022
- 77since 2022
- 52since 2022
- 65since 2022
- 64since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £891k | 9 | £440k |
| 2022-12-31 | £291k | 12 | £888k |
| 2021-12-31 | £368k | 9 | £847k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£360k£800k
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.