SPICERHAART ESTATE AGENTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-14 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£497K
+11.9% vs 2023
Net assets
-£20M
-42.5% vs 2023
Employees
511
+33.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£9M
-43.2% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SPICERHAART ESTATE AGENTS LIMITED 2003-05-07 → present
- POLL (002) LIMITED 2002-05-03 → 2003-05-07
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £25,127,000 | £33,933,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£5,573,000 | -£7,866,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£5,954,000 | -£8,525,000 | |
| Net profit | -£5,229,000 | -£5,945,000 | |
| Cash | £444,000 | £497,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£13,457,000 | -£19,316,000 | |
| Net assets | -£13,980,000 | -£19,925,000 | |
| Equity | -£13,980,000 | -£19,925,000 | |
| Average employees | 384 | 511 | |
| Wages | £12,401,000 | £18,996,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -22.2% | -23.2% | |
| Net margin | -20.8% | -17.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 41.4% | 40.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.15x | 0.16x | |
| Interest cover | -13.17x | -11.62x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have assessed the wider group's projected business activities and available financial resources and detailed cash forecasts. This includes a review of a base case and reasonably plausible downside scenarios and in all cases the group has sufficient means to continue as a going concern for a period of twelve months from the signing date.”
Significant events
- “During the course of the year, as part of group wide entity simplification project, the following group companies transferred their trade and assets into the company: Okotoks Limited as at 31 May 2024; and B.C. Holt Limited as at 31 May 2024 (transfer of estate agency trade and assets only; residential lettings trade and assets went to Spicerhaart Residential Lettings Limited).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, Paul Alick | Secretary | 2003-04-04 | — | British |
| LARK, Antony Tobias | Director | 2020-06-08 | Sep 1972 | British |
| SMITH, Paul Alick | Director | 2003-04-04 | Oct 1960 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BULLOCK, Nicola | Secretary | 2002-05-03 | 2003-04-04 |
| POLLINGTON, Lucian Frank Erich | Secretary | 2007-11-29 | 2018-05-25 |
| JERVIS, Russell | Director | 2009-01-27 | 2020-03-21 |
| POLLINGTON, Lucian Frank Erich | Director | 2008-11-17 | 2018-05-25 |
| POLLINGTON, Lucian Frank Erich | Director | 2002-05-03 | 2003-04-04 |
| SMITH, Walter Alick | Director | 2003-04-04 | 2007-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Paul Alick Smith | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| Spicerhaart Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 95 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-23 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-02-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-17 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2020-06-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-04-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-01-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-08-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-10-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+35%
£25,127,000 £33,933,000
-
Cash
+11.9%
£444,000 £497,000
-
Net assets
-42.5%
-£13,980,000 -£19,925,000
-
Employees
+33.1%
384 511
-
Operating profit
-41.1%
-£5,573,000 -£7,866,000
-
Profit before tax
-43.2%
-£5,954,000 -£8,525,000
-
Wages
+53.2%
£12,401,000 £18,996,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers