Cheshire Estate and Legal Limited
Registered name: CHESHIRE ESTATE AND LEGAL LIMITED
Part of Cheshire Estate and Legal Holdings Limited groupCheshire Estate and Legal Limited made £12.7m revenue and a £488k loss in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Cheshire Estate and Legal Limited’s revenue fell 10% to £12.7m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with a loss of £488k and 104 employees. The company is classified under “buying and selling of own real estate” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- 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 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.3m | £14.1m | £12.7m |
| Cost of sales | £2.2m | £3.7m | £4.7m |
| Gross profit | £12m | £10.5m | £8m |
| Operating profit | £2m | £86.5k | −£15.4k |
| Profit before tax | £1.9m | −£49.4k | −£455k |
| Profit after tax | £1.8m | −£64k | −£488k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.8m | −£64k | −£488k |
| Staff costs | £3.5m | £5.4m | £4.6m |
| Employees (average) | 108 | 138 | 104 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 12.9% | −0.4% | −3.9% |
| Gross margin | 84.3% | 74.1% | 63.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £132k | £102k | £122k |
| Profit per employee | £17.1k | −£464 | −£4.7k |
| Cash conversion | −86.7% | 700.6% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.2% | ▼10.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼103.5% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲27.8% | ▼24.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £352k | £255k |
| Net assets | £553k | £171k | −£318k |
| Fixed assets | £989k | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Current assets | £5.2m | £4.3m | £3.3m |
| Debtors | £593k | £875k | £0 |
| Deferred income | £308k | £0 | £17.5k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.7m | £606k | −£1.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −3.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 63.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £122k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£4.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 10.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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
- ▼286%
- Now −£318k
- Cash at bank
- ▼28%
- Now £255k
- Headcount
- ▼25%
- Now 104
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £17.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £1.4m
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
- Cheshire Estate and Legal Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Cheshire Estate and Legal Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Halcyon Legal LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Crypto Tracing Experts LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Similar profitable businesses
- New Horizons (NW) LtdPreston · Buying and selling of own real estate
- Revenue
- £12.6m
- Profit
- £2.5m
- Staff
- 205
- Dellmes GR LimitedLondon · Buying and selling of own real estate
- Revenue
- £11.6m
- Profit
- £3.1m
- Staff
- —
- Ramchez GR LimitedLondon · Buying and selling of own real estate
- Revenue
- £11.6m
- Profit
- £3.1m
- Staff
- —
- Wharfedale LimitedBatley · Buying and selling of own real estate
- Revenue
- £11.3m
- Profit
- £7.1m
- Staff
- 12
- Quarry Hill Developments LimitedWetherby · Buying and selling of own real estate
- Revenue
- £11.1m
- Profit
- £2.6m
- Staff
- —
- Panther Securities P L CPotters Bar · Buying and selling of own real estate
- Revenue
- £14.8m
- Profit
- £4.3m
- Staff
- 20
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit −£488k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.