VALUED ESTATES LTD
Company number 04565690 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Valued Estates Ltd is a small, unregulated probate administration specialist operating in a structurally defensive but increasingly commoditised UK estate administration market, where its fixed-fee and weekly-update proposition gives it a credible edge over generalist solicitors. Growth in client money under administration from £10.8m to £13.4m signals a genuinely expanding case pipeline, but equity of £43,401, a current ratio down to 1.17, a £17,363 secured overdraft and lease commitments that tripled to £88,725 leave the balance sheet materially thinner than sector norms for a practice of this scale. The strategic priority is converting volume growth into retained reserves and building the compliance and governance infrastructure that would protect it against any extension of probate regulation or loss of corporate referral channels.
Shareholders' funds
£43,401
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-10-17
- Employees
- 16 (2025 accounts · was 14 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 7 Church Barns Ware Road, Widford, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, SG12 8RL
- Postcode
- SG12 8RL
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Unaudited Abridged
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-17
- Next due by
- 2027-10-31
Nature of business (SIC)
- 69109 Activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 2 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB346779 (Tier 1), registered since 2022.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- valuedestates.com
- Phone
- 01920 449700
Valued Estates is a Hertfordshire probate administration company, giving clear, professional advice, at a fixed price and with weekly updates.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| AFFINITY AIR CHARTER LIMITED | 2010-07-01 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| THE KENNELS, FANHAMS HALL, WARE, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG12 7QA | 2018-11-02 |
| FIVE WAYS, 57-59 HATFIELD ROAD, POTTERS BAR, HERTFORDSHIRE EN6 1HS | 2002-11-15 |
| 25 HILL ROAD, THEYDON BOIS, EPPING, ESSEX CM16 7LX | 2002-10-25 |
Among its peers
3rd largest employer
of 34 similar companies in SG, with 16 staff. 3rd oldest of its local peers.
Competitors Stevenage
This company ranks 14 among activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified in Stevenage.
The class of 2002
39%
of the 122,936 companies incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.