Pentland Properties Limited
Registered name: PENTLAND PROPERTIES LIMITED
Pentland Properties Limited made £7.3m revenue and £1.5m profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025.
Pentland Properties Limited’s revenue grew 88% to £7.3m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £1.5m profit and 4 employees. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in Folkestone; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Folkestone, South East
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2022 | 31 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £42.4m | £20.9m | £3.9m | £7.3m |
| Cost of sales | £39.1m | £18.3m | £1.8m | £5.2m |
| Gross profit | £3.3m | £2.6m | £2.1m | £2.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £926k | £1.8m | £1.9m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £750k | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £750k | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.5m |
| Staff costs | £323k | £604k | £314k | £218k |
| Employees (average) | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.8% | 6.8% | 37.1% | 20.7% |
| Gross margin | 7.7% | 12.6% | 54.5% | 28.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £8.5m | £5.2m | £967k | £1.8m |
| Profit per employee | £150k | £354k | £359k | £376k |
| Cash conversion | 270.8% | −122.9% | −39.3% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼50.7% | ▼81.5% | ▲87.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲88.7% | ▲1.4% | ▲4.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼20% | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.1m | £1.1m | £13.1k | £1.1m |
| Net assets | £12.7m | £13.7m | £14.6m | £15.1m |
| Current assets | £21.6m | £18.9m | £19.8m | £20.9m |
| Debtors | £7.8m | £466 | £11.9k | £14.5k |
| Deferred income | £108k | £110k | £317k | £234k |
| Cash from operations | £3m | −£2.4m | −£689k | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 20.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.8m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £376k
- 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
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £15.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲8343%
- Now £1.1m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 4
- Deferred income
- ▼26%
- Now £234k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Pentland (Kingsnorth) LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2025 (profit £1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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