Vanstian Limited
Registered name: VANSTIAN LIMITED
Part of Hargreaves Property Holdings Limited groupVanstian Limited made £4.2m revenue and £1.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Vanstian Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £4.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.2m profit. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in Littlehampton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Littlehampton, South East
- Age
- 51 yrs · since 1975
- 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) | £4.2m | £4.4m | £4.2m |
| Cost of sales | — | £72.8k | £147k |
| Gross profit | — | £4.3m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £3.4m | £1.4m | £908k |
| Profit before tax | £3.4m | £1.4m | £921k |
| Profit after tax | £3.2m | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.2m | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 75.6% | 32.4% | 27.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 98.3% | 96.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.1% | ▼4.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼55.4% | ▼19.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 27.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 96.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
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- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
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- 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
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- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- 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
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- Now —
- Headcount
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- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
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- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hargreaves Property Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hargreaves Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Vanstian Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (17)
- Hargreaves Management LimitedRev. £8.3m · Profit £182k
- Hargreaves Developments LimitedRev. £4.2m · Profit £1.2m
- Portfield Estate Company LimitedRev. £3.1m · Profit −£1.3m
- Hargreaves Estates LimitedRev. £1.1m · Profit £300k
- Hargreaves Construction Company LimitedRev. £212k · Profit £5.4k
- Tamburello LimitedRev. £157k · Profit £67.1k
- Summerbrook LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £618k
- Brockhampton Land Company,limitedFigures not disclosed
- Harcon LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Homes LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Investment Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Property Investments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Residential Developments LtdFigures not disclosed
- HCC 2011 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Highswell LimitedFigures not disclosed
- HRD 2010 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 £1.2m), 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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