HOBSON & LATHAM LIMITED
Company number 06607352 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Hobson & Latham Limited is a highly profitable, niche conveyancing practice that significantly outperforms typical industry margin benchmarks, achieving an exceptional 43% operating margin. The firm has successfully leveraged the higher interest rate environment to boost non-fee income while growing its core turnover by nearly 25% in a challenging property market. However, its financial structure—typical of property law firms—relies heavily on transient client funds, meaning its true equity base is relatively thin, exposing the business to systemic property market downturns or regulatory compliance risks.
Shareholders' funds
£406,279
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of Licenced Conveyancers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2008-06-02
- Employees
- 14 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 2 Upperton Gardens, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 2AH
- Postcode
- BN21 2AH
- Capital
- 80 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-02
- Next due by
- 2027-06-16
Nature of business (SIC)
- 69109 Activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 1 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z7529790 (Tier 2), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 88 similar companies in BN
3rd largest employer among its local peers (14 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2008.
Competitors Brighton
This company ranks 5 among activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified in Brighton.
The class of 2008
38%
of the 252 companies in this sector incorporated in 2008 are still active today; 59% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2018-09-06
- Where
- East Sussex (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESX393223 | East Sussex | Leasehold | 2018-09-06 | — |
| ESX357242 | East Sussex | Leasehold | 2014-03-20 | — |
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