What a buyer sees
SOUTHROP ESTATES LIMITED
Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate · Lechlade · 04391888
132staff · FY2025
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£564kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.4Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff132
202176 → 1322025
Cash at bank£564k
2021£608k → £564k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£56,118in the bottom quarter
£37,743£106,911£375,855
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
1137180
Creditor daysdays18
1032195
Stock daysdays15in the bottom quarter
558628
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 1
- 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 4
- 24 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 119 to 132Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 37 for the middle of 548 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 15 against 58 for the middle of 95 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 67since 2002
- 36since 2017
- 33since 2021
- 76since 2021
- since 2022
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-07-01 | £7.4M | 132 | £564k |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £6.1M | 119 | £93k |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £6.4M | 123 | £165k |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £4.1M | 76 | £608k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
3–8× sales£22M£59M
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.