What a buyer sees
MANCHESTER LIFE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis · Manchester · 08800088
50staff · FY2024
13years trading
56oldest owner on file
£574kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.8Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff50
202148,000 → 502024
Cash at bank£574k
2021£1.1M → £574k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£76,220in the middle half
£39,425£86,612£223,176
Debtor daysdays9below almost all
1037102
Creditor daysdays6
1040213
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
638176
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 5
- The newest accounts on file are 27 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Headcount fell from 51000 to 50A 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 1
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 9 against 37 for the middle of 31 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 56since 2016
Directors
- 85since 2016
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | £3.8M | 50 | £574k |
| 2023-05-31 | £3.4M | 51000 | £756k |
| 2022-05-31 | £10M | 54000 | £1.3M |
| 2021-05-31 | £10M | 48000 | £1.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
3–8× sales£11M£30M
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.