Green & Co. Business Brokers

As business brokers, buyers and investors are always asking us, “What type of business should I buy?” The answer to that question truly depends on who you are, what your background is, where you want to live, and what you see yourself doing every day. Small business owners are consumed by their businesses, and if […]

It happens much more often than you would expect. A business owner chooses to sell their company, but then they wish to stay on as an employee. We’ve seen several former sellers step into the role of employee after the sale, and they couldn’t be happier in their new job. However, there are a few

Getting the asking price right on your business listing is one of the most critical factors in getting it sold. When it comes to the valuation of a business, we have to listen to the marketplace data on sold listings. We know what buyers are willing to pay for a business of your size in

In today’s competitive business sales market, if your business listing has been on the market for months, and hasn’t received an offer yet, don’t panic. Business sales are very different from something like real estate sales, where the most buyer activity happens in the first few weeks. In 2020, the average days on the market

Some business owners are a little shocked when they first hear that business brokers typically work on a 12-month listing agreement. After all, most people have never sold a business before, and many sellers assume that the process of selling a business is similar to selling a home. While there are a few similarities between

Historically, small business buyers are typically owner-operators or other businesses in the same industry who are growing via acquisition. It’s much more difficult for an investor to purchase a small business and either run it remotely or put a local manager in place to run it. Over the past year or so, we’ve seen a

2019 was a very robust year for business sales in Florida. In fact, over the past several years, we’ve seen nothing but a healthy and growing market for small business sales here, as more and more people flock to the Sunshine State. In 2020, with the arrival of COVID-19, undoubtedly, we saw some changes to

Industry experts in business sales keep projecting that in the next 5-7 years, we will have more businesses on the market than we will have buyers for, once the baby boomer generation moves towards retirement and are ready to sell their businesses. That obviously creates a buyer’s market situation, which is certainly not ideal for

2020 was unfortunately not kind to many small businesses, so a number of business owners are wondering what to do moving forward. The good news is that with widespread COVID vaccine distribution on the horizon, we are hopefully soon to be coming out on the other side of this pandemic. Businesses in Florida are already