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October 27th, 2022
5 tips for increasing the value of your Letting / Estate Agency: 1. Don’t be heavily reliant on property sales. The most value in your business comes from your lettings portfolio with buyers basing their offer on your lettings income rather than your sales income. 2. Work on improving your landlord to property ratio. If a large percentage of your portfolio is owned by small number of landlords, it introduces risk,..
Read MoreJune 15th, 2022
Double your profit by backing your business into a franchise At BusinessResale we have just completed a transaction which involves the growing trend of backing your existing business into an existing, trading franchise. I though we’d share the story with you: We were instructed as the sell-side broker. Sales of franchised letting and estate agencies are our forte, and we have helped some of the major property..
Read MoreJune 23rd, 2020
Strong Buyer Activity Resurfaces! Allow me to share some insights with you from the last few months. For many business brokers and finance specialists, March 23rd saw pipelines freeze, deals put on hold and a complete pause in transaction activity. Understandable, because who would complete on a business at a pre-agreed price, just as the very business is forced to close and trading activity stops! The sensible buyer..
Read MoreMay 19th, 2020
It’s time to share some insight into the Business Resale market during the Covid period. Strange times indeed, but activity levels have actually increased. Let me explain. True, it’s been nigh-on impossible to transact a business resale during lockdown. We have sales agreed on some fabulous businesses, but how can a buyer complete the deal when the business, right now, looks nothing like it did in January or..
Read MoreMarch 31st, 2020
Pandemic or no pandemic – many business owners still need to sell and we are still here! Business is ‘almost’ as normal in the BusinessResale office. We are still valuing, marketing and selling businesses. New leads are still coming in daily and buyers are still l keen to explore new opportunities. Entrepreneurs can see through a crisis and look forward to there being light at the end..
Read MoreAugust 16th, 2019
Is it your time to make a monumental change and buy a business overseas? If you run a UK-based property business, you’ll be all too familiar with: Racing to the bottom on agency fees. Scratching around to achieve 1% fee listings. Giving away free management to attract a landlord. The government taking away tenant fee income. Increasing regulation. Staff demanding higher basic wages. Cold and rainy weather! Have you..
Read MoreOctober 2nd, 2017
It’s an uncertain, interesting, worrying, exciting (delete as appropriate!!) time for owners of property businesses. We work closely with estate and lettings agency owners to help them enter and exit the sector, and there’s a low burble of discussion about what may be around the corner. A quick reminder of just a few changes and factors having an impact on agents and the property market: The looming tenant fee ban. ..
Read MoreSeptember 12th, 2017
At business resale, we have had some excellent success over the years selling property businesses across the UK. Just last year, the thriving city of Peterborough presented us with a fabulous opportunity to help one of the UK’s largest property business owners to achieve their exit plan. Well, we are excited to bring another brilliant Peterborough business to the market. This one is at starter-level and being priced..
Read MoreSeptember 26th, 2016
Our vendor is keen to exit. They own this Cambridge property business, but live over 90 minutes away and run another growing (non-property) business. Hence, they have made it easy for someone to walk into this phenomenal business opportunity. The business is very strongly branded and is part of a thriving national franchise network. Turning over around £130K pa, the business trades nicely under management, but it really needs..
Read MoreJanuary 18th, 2016
We’re helping a business in Cambridge to expand their footprint this year. The office is a prime franchised brand, Northwood Cambridge. They have an established and successful letting footprint, but plan to expand their sales footprint this year. One of the main methods by which they intend to do this is to share the sales opportunity with a few selected, self-employed sales agents. Long a favourite of..
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