ESTATE RESEARCH LIMITED
Company number 08765186 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Estate Research Limited is a financially stable, cash-rich probate genealogy firm with £5.67m net assets, £3.41m cash and a decade of near-uninterrupted equity growth, meriting a LOW risk rating. Residual concerns centre on the absence of audited P&L disclosure, an unexplained 2024 equity decline, a sharp 2025 rise in short-term creditors and debtors, and governance concentrated in a single director. Prospective investors should obtain the full unabridged accounts and clarify the creditor composition and share structure before committing capital.
Shareholders' funds
£5,542,493
Balance sheet as at 2024-11-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company is that of probate genealogy.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2013-11-07
- Employees
- 34 (2025 accounts · was 32 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 102 Chapel Lane, Wigan, England, WN3 4HG
- Postcode
- WN3 4HG
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-11-30
- Next due by
- 2027-08-31
- Financial year end
- 30 November
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2026-11-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 96090 Other service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 1 current · 1 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2888257 (Tier 2), registered since 2011.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- estateresearch.co.uk
- Phone
- 02073475140, 01942826500
Estate Research specialise in tracing next of kin and missing heirs to estates We work with local authorities, NHS trusts & hospitals and our Private Client department provides a range of legal services to Wills & Probate solicitors. Welcome to Estate
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| BANK CHAMBERS 1 LIBRARY STREET, WIGAN, LANCASHIRE, WN1 1NN | 2019-04-18 |
| BANK CHAMBERS 1 LIBRARY STREET, WIGAN, LANCASHIRE, WN1 2BB, ENGLAND | 2014-06-04 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 181 similar companies in WN
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (34 staff).
Trading since 2013.
No.4 of the largest other service activities not elsewhere classified companies in Wigan →
Competitors Wigan
This company ranks 4 among other service activities not elsewhere classified in Wigan.
The class of 2013
21%
of the 14,102 companies in this sector incorporated in 2013 are still active today; 76% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Freehold
- 1
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2021-01-19
- Price paid, where recorded
- £1,454,983
- Where
- Greater London (1), Greater Manchester (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGL318807 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2021-01-19 | £730,000 |
| GM110249 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 2018-11-08 | £724,983 |
For addresses and the authoritative register entry, use HM Land Registry's official search (£3 per title).
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