Calabar Properties Limited
Registered name: CALABAR PROPERTIES LIMITED
Part of Raphael Freshwater Memorial Association Limited(The) groupCalabar Properties Limited made £1.6m revenue and £1.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Calabar Properties Limited’s revenue fell 10% to £1.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.4m profit. The company is classified under “buying and selling of own real estate” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 66 yrs · since 1959
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.8m | £1.8m | £1.6m |
| Cost of sales | −£1.6m | −£1.7m | −£1.6m |
| Gross profit | £133k | £68k | −£9.4k |
| Operating profit | £1m | −£233k | £496k |
| Profit before tax | £2m | £997k | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £787k | £1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £787k | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 98% | 44% | 90% |
| Gross margin | 7.5% | 3.8% | −0.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.4% | ▼10.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼54.9% | ▲83.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 90%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −0.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Raphael Freshwater Memorial Association Limited(The)ultimate parent50–75%
- Centremanor Limited75–100%
- Freshwater Family Holdings Limited75–100%
- Metropolitan Properties Company Limited75–100%
- Metropolitan Properties Co. (F.G.C.) Limited75–100%
- E.alec Colman Investments Limited75–100%
- Calabar Properties Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (15)
- Deritend Investments(Cheetham)limitedRev. £476k · Profit −£81k
- Calabar Estates LimitedRev. £294k · Profit £353k
- Calabar (Wellingborough) LimitedRev. £193k · Profit £260k
- Beechworth Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Calabar (Flats) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Calabar (Woolwich) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Colguy Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Deritend Investments (Tyseley) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Deritend Investments(Birkdale)limitedFigures not disclosed
- Deritend Investments(Crumpsall)limitedFigures not disclosed
- Ediscum LimitedFigures not disclosed
- K.S. Investments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metropolitan Properties Co (Colman) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Philcol Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Retia Phoenix LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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