Applegate Homes Limited
Registered name: APPLEGATE HOMES LIMITED
Part of Firgate Developments Ltd groupApplegate Homes Limited made £10.4m revenue and £315k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Applegate Homes Limited’s revenue fell 54% to £10.4m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £315k profit and 11 employees. The company is classified under “construction of domestic buildings” and is based in Iver; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Iver, South East
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- 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. From the filing: “The company's parent company is Firgate Developments Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales. The accounts are available from its registered office Bathurst House, 50 Bathurst Walk, Iver,”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £36.9m | £22.6m | £10.4m |
| Cost of sales | — | £18.6m | £15.6m | £8.9m |
| Gross profit | — | £18.3m | £7m | £1.6m |
| Operating profit | — | £17.1m | £5.7m | £63.4k |
| Profit before tax | — | £17.1m | £5.8m | £459k |
| Profit after tax | — | £13.9m | £4.3m | £315k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £13.9m | £4.3m | £315k |
| Staff costs | — | £510k | £607k | £661k |
| Employees (average) | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 37.7% | 19.1% | 3% |
| Gross margin | — | 49.5% | 31.1% | 14.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £3.7m | £2.1m | £949k |
| Profit per employee | — | £1.4m | £392k | £28.6k |
| Cash conversion | — | −86.3% | −167.3% | −437.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼38.7% | ▼53.9% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼69% | ▼92.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲10% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £9.2m | £7.9m | £4m |
| Net assets | £2m | £15.5m | £12.7m | £9.2m |
| Fixed assets | £29k | £147k | £254k | £162k |
| Current assets | £15m | £19.9m | £14.8m | £10.1m |
| Debtors | £0 | £1.3m | £1.1m | £1m |
| Deferred income | — | £25.1k | £21.5k | £21.5k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£14.8m | −£9.6m | −£277k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £949k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £28.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −437.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.7%
- 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
- ▼27%
- Now £9.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼49%
- Now £4m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 11
- Deferred income
- 0%
- Now £21.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▼36%
- Now £162k
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
- Firgate Developments Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Applegate Homes Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Chanray LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Culpepper (Wentworth) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- East House (Wentworth) LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £315k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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