Shanly Homes Limited
Registered name: SHANLY HOMES LIMITED
Part of Sorbon Group Limited groupShanly Homes Limited made £47.2m revenue and £6.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Shanly Homes Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £47.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £6.7m profit and 85 employees. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in Beaconsfield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Beaconsfield, South East
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- 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 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £69.9m | £57.6m | £41.8m | £47.2m |
| Cost of sales | £52.7m | £43.7m | −£34m | −£35.7m |
| Gross profit | £17.1m | £13.9m | £7.8m | £11.6m |
| Operating profit | £9.2m | £6.3m | £14.6k | £2.7m |
| Profit before tax | £8.7m | £6.3m | £3.1m | £8.6m |
| Profit after tax | £7m | £4.8m | £2.3m | £6.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £7m | £4.8m | £2.3m | £6.7m |
| Staff costs | £9.8m | £9.1m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 119 | 104 | 81 | 85 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 10% | 8.4% | 5.6% | 14.1% |
| Gross margin | 24.5% | 24.2% | 18.8% | 24.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £587k | £554k | £516k | £556k |
| Profit per employee | £58.6k | £46.4k | £28.7k | £78.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼17.5% | ▼27.5% | ▲13% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼30.7% | ▼51.8% | ▲186.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼12.6% | ▼22.1% | ▲4.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £254k | £1.4m | — | — |
| Net assets | £227m | £232m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £2.9m | £2.8m | — | — |
| Current assets | £244m | £247m | — | — |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £439k | — | — |
| Deferred income | £7.6m | £6.9m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 14.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £556k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £78.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now 85
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Sorbon Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Shanly Homes Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Mount Kellet LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (16)
- Acacia Homes LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Boulters Meadow LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Brenard Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Intagroup Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kingsway Homes (Berkshire) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kingsway LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Michael Shanly Homes LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Milestone So LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Shanly Homes (Beaconsfield) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Shanly Homes (Leatherhead) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Shanly Homes (Staines) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sorbon Finance LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Unitcastle LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vandawn LimitedFigures not disclosed
- W.H. & C.F. Powell LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Well Road Farm 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 £6.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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