The Firmwatch take
H W B Estates Limited is a 62-year-old real estate, active on the Companies House register. The latest filed accounts (year to 30 August 2024) show GBP 49k in net assets, with 2 cautionary signals worth monitoring. No insolvency or strike-off filings appear in our public Companies House and Gazette data.
Refreshed 24 May 2026
Incorporated
29 May 1963
62 years on the register
Sector
Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
SIC 68209
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£49k
Top 10% in sector
Cash at bank
Not disclosed
Not required for this filing type
Latest filing
None yet
Analytics
Risk, value and sector comparison
Insolvency risk
25/100
watch risk
Estimated public-data value
£36,768 - £66,182
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Real Estate
Sample: 248,722 companies
Negative net assets: 23.7%
- Net assets vs sector median
- £47,979
- Working capital vs sector median
- £5,036
- Sector median current ratio
- 0.49
Positive net assets
The latest extracted accounts show assets exceeding liabilities.
Current ratio below 1.0
Current assets are below current liabilities.
Accounts are ageing
The latest extracted accounts period is more than 21 months old.
Risk and value are estimates from public accounts only. They are not a credit score, valuation opinion or insolvency prediction guarantee. See methodology.
Balance sheet
Full extracted balance sheet
Top 10% in sector · Sector medians shown for 248,722 filers in this sector (2024).
Cash at bank
Bank balances disclosed in the public accounts.
Not disclosed
Current assets
Assets expected to turn into cash within one year.
£126,681
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£131,717
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
£5,036
Median £0
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£54,060
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£49,024
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£49,024
Median £1k
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£49,024
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
1.0×
Median 0.5×
Figures extracted from the company's public XBRL/iXBRL filing. Fields shown as Not disclosed are not legally required for this filing type and are absent from the source document — they are not necessarily zero.
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