Fi Real Estate Management Limited
Registered name: FI REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Part of Knowlesway Limited groupFi Real Estate Management Limited made £18.1m revenue and £1.4m profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025. read from filing text
Fi Real Estate Management Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £18.1m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £1.4m profit and 122 employees. The company is classified under “real estate agencies” and is based in Chorley; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chorley, North West
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent company is Acepark Limited. The ultimate parent company is Knowlesway Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.3m | £18.1m |
| Cost of sales | £8.7m | £7.7m |
| Gross profit | £9.6m | £10.4m |
| Operating profit | £448k | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £422k | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £422k | £1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £422k | £1.4m |
| Staff costs | £5.6m | £6.3m |
| Employees (average) | 122 | 122 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.3% | 7.8% |
| Gross margin | 52.4% | 57.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £150k | £148k |
| Profit per employee | £3.5k | £11.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲235% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.4m | £2.4m |
| Net assets | £26.3m | £27.7m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Current assets | £33.1m | £32m |
| Debtors | £4.8m | £4.1m |
| Deferred income | £41.2k | £106k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 57.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £148k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 22.8%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £27.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲81%
- Now £2.4m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 122
- Deferred income
- ▲158%
- Now £106k
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £1.7m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Knowlesway Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Fi Property Group Limited75–100%
- Fi Real Estate Management Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (6)
- Fi Facilities Management LimitedRev. £23.1m · Profit £2.1m
- Botany Bay Asset Management LimitedRev. £4.4m · Profit £113k
- Solutus Advisors LimitedRev. £2.6m · Profit £355k
- Toys "R" US Properties (UK) LimitedRev. £0 · Profit −£26.7k
- Bollinway Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- First Investments 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 £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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