Secure Empty Property Limited
Registered name: SECURE EMPTY PROPERTY LIMITED
Part of Carbline Holdings Limited groupSecure Empty Property Limited made £4.6m revenue and £698k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Secure Empty Property Limited’s revenue was £4.6m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £698k profit and 21 employees. The company is classified under “private security activities” and is based in London; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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 | 30 Jun 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 30 Jun 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Full P&L | Profit only | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £3.5m | — | £2.8m | £4.6m |
| Cost of sales | — | −£2m | — | −£1.5m | −£2.4m |
| Gross profit | — | £1.5m | — | £1.3m | £2.2m |
| Operating profit | — | £508k | — | £244k | £944k |
| Profit before tax | — | £484k | — | £238k | £938k |
| Profit after tax | £290k | £362k | £397k | £174k | £698k |
| Profit (best available) | £290k | £362k | £397k | £174k | £698k |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 21 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | — | 10.3% | — | 6.2% | 15.2% |
| Gross margin | — | 42.8% | — | 47.9% | 48.4% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £130k | — | £112k | £218k |
| Profit per employee | £12.1k | £13.4k | £14.7k | £7k | £33.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲36.9% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲12.5% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £580k | — | £888k | — | — |
| Net assets | £820k | — | £1.2m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £577k | — | £514k | — | — |
| Current assets | £1.3m | — | £1.9m | — | — |
| Debtors | £705k | — | £840k | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 15.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 48.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £218k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £33.2k
- 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
- —
- Now 21
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Carbline Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Carbline Limited50–75%
- Clearway (Next Wave) Holdings Limited50–75%
- Clearway (2021) Holdings Limited75–100%
- Clearway (2021) Bidco Limited75–100%
- The Clearway Group Limited75–100%
- Broomco (4276) Limited75–100%
- Clearway Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Secure Empty Property Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Clearway Fire and Security LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Clearway Group Support Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Clearway Labs LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Clearway Technology LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Debt Squared Group 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 Mar 2025 (profit £698k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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