METFIELD ESTATES LIMITED
Company number 02128089 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Metfield Estates is a family-controlled investment vehicle classified in the real estate letting sector but functioning in substance as a family investment company, with a £19.9m securities portfolio replacing conventional property assets. Its decade-long negative equity position (-£9.8m in 2025) is entirely an artefact of insider funding — directors' loans and redeemable preference shares with £18.9m of accrued interest and dividends — meaning it carries none of the external refinancing risk that has pressured leveraged UK landlords through the 2022–2025 rate cycle, though equity continues to erode by ~£0.5m annually. Thin cash reserves (£46.5k), cost-basis bond valuations, related-party debtor exposure and limited filing transparency are the principal watch-points against an otherwise externally unlevered and liquid asset base.
Shareholders' funds
-£10,139,103
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1987-05-05
- Employees
- 4 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Labs Hawley Wharf, Water Lane, London, England, NW1 8NZ
- Postcode
- NW1 8NZ
- Capital
- 1,660,705 GBP
- Accounts category
- Unaudited Abridged
- Charges
- 29 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-05
- Next due by
- 2026-11-19
Nature of business (SIC)
- 68209 Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Officers 5 current · 8 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
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27 - 41 GLEBE WAY MANAGEMENT LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB201067 (Tier 1), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| MOBILE PROPERTIES LIMITED | 1987-10-22 |
Previous registered addresses 11
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 314 REGENTS PARK ROAD, LONDON, N3 2JX, UNITED KINGDOM | 2020-06-08 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 06/04/2009 FROM, NORTHWAY HOUSE, 1379 HIGH ROAD WHETSTONE, LONDON, N20 9LP | 2009-04-06 |
| NORTHWAY HOUSE, 1379 HIGH ROAD WHETSTONE, LONDON, N20 9LP | 2009-04-06 |
| 305 BALLARDS LANE, LONDON, N12 8NP | 2002-07-01 |
| 305 BALLARDS LANE, LONDON, N12 8NP | 2002-07-01 |
| "TARA" OLD LONDON ROAD, POTTER STREET, HARLOW, ESSEX CM17 9NQ | 1989-02-18 |
| "TARA" OLD LONDON ROAD, POTTER STREET, HARLOW, ESSEX CM17 9NQ | 1989-02-18 |
| 17 GROSVENOR STREET, LONDON, W1X 9FD | 1987-10-19 |
| 17 GROSVENOR STREET, LONDON, W1X 9FD | 1987-10-19 |
| 124-128 CITY ROAD, LONDON, EC1V 2NJ | 1987-06-15 |
| 124-128 CITY ROAD, LONDON, EC1V 2NJ | 1987-06-15 |
Among its peers
Among the biggest employers
of 2,054 similar companies in NW, with 4 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors London
This company ranks 4629 among other letting and operating of own or leased real estate in London.
The class of 1987
79%
of the 919 companies in this sector incorporated in 1987 are still active today; 20% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 6 titles
- Freehold
- 6
- Most recent registration
- 2011-08-15
- Where
- Suffolk (3), Cambridgeshire (1), Norfolk (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P171369 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2011-08-15 | — |
| SK231224 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2002-08-22 | — |
| CB185173 | Cambridgeshire | Freehold | 2002-07-15 | — |
| SK179446 | Suffolk | Freehold | 1998-03-09 | — |
| NK122739 | Norfolk | Freehold | 1992-04-15 | — |
| LL80160 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 1992-03-26 | — |
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