The High Street lettings firm was wound up by the court and joint liquidators appointed on 14 July. What tenants, landlords and creditors should do next.

Premier-Lettings (UK) Limited, the lettings business that traded from Pages Court at 17B High Street in Petersfield, has been wound up by the court, and joint liquidators took over its affairs on 14 July. The appointment was made formal in a notice published in the London Gazette on 30 July.

The Companies House insolvency register records the case as a compulsory liquidation: a winding-up petition dated 17 October 2025, with the winding up commencing on 23 January 2026. The court order was registered at Companies House on 24 March 2026. The Official Receiver is listed on the case alongside the joint liquidators, Dermot Brendan Coakley and Svetlana Chan of WSM Marks Bloom LLP in Guildford, whose appointment followed on 14 July.

A compulsory liquidation is the route that runs through the court rather than a company’s own shareholders. It begins with a winding-up petition, most often from a creditor owed money; if the court is satisfied the debt cannot be paid, it makes a winding-up order and the Official Receiver takes control of the company, with insolvency practitioners appointed after that to collect in what the company owns and share it among the people it owes. The public register does not say who brought the petition against Premier-Lettings, and a liquidation is not, in itself, a finding of wrongdoing by anyone involved.

What the register shows

Companies House records show Premier-Lettings (UK) Limited was incorporated on 4 September 2009 and is classified under letting and operating of real estate. The company’s paperwork had been slipping for some time before the petition arrived: its accounts, due by 31 December 2023, were never filed, and its confirmation statement had been overdue since September 2024. On 30 July 2025 the company applied to be struck off the register voluntarily; the winding-up petition followed less than three months later.

The company’s registered office, previously at Beacon Hill Park in Hindhead, has now moved to the liquidators’ Guildford address, and its trading address on the High Street is recorded in the liquidators’ notice.

Timeline for Premier-Lettings (UK) Limited of Petersfield: winding-up petition dated 17 October 2025, winding up commenced 23 January 2026, court order registered at Companies House 24 March 2026, joint liquidators appointed 14 July 2026, appointment notice published in the London Gazette 30 July 2026
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What it means for you

If you rented through the firm and paid a tenancy deposit, that money should not depend on the company’s survival: deposits on assured shorthold tenancies must by law be held in one of the three government-approved protection schemes, and each scheme lets you check online whether yours is registered. If you cannot find your deposit in any of the three schemes, raise it with the liquidators.

If you are a landlord whose rent was collected by the firm, or anyone else the company owes money, you are a creditor and can register a claim. The Gazette notice gives the joint liquidators’ contact details at WSM Marks Bloom: 01483 405160 or guildford@wsm.co.uk. Registering a claim costs nothing, though in an insolvent liquidation there is no guarantee of how much, if anything, unsecured creditors get back.

For the wider picture on the local property market, see our Petersfield house prices tracker. Premier-Lettings is not the only east Hampshire firm to reach the end of the road this summer: an Alton garden buildings maker went into liquidation the same month.

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