WHY CHOOSE US TO SELL YOUR
LETTING AGENCY OR ESTATE AGENCY?

The best time to sell a business is when there is a strong demand from sellers and at the moment we are achieving the highest prices that we've ever achieved in 32 years. However, the time has to be right for you and there may be good business, tax or personal reasons for delaying your sale. We may also find issues during our due diligence checks that need to be dealt with before the business goes on the market. Whatever your time scale, we are happy to work with you to ensure that you achieve the best possible price at a time that is right for you.

Our valuation will be based on data from over 700 completed sales and will be accurate and achievable. We will look at factors including the turnover of your business, the mix of revenue between sales and lettings, the pre-tax profit  and  the true underlying profit of the business which is known as the adjusted EBITDA. We pride ourselves on giving accurate and achievable valuations and we sell the vast majority of the businesses that we take on for within 10% of the original guide price.

We will prepare a comprehensive marketing information pack which gives prospective buyers all the key information that they need. We will ensure that the figures correlate precisely with the accounts and that the pack presents your business in the very best possible light. This will have a huge impact on the price that can be achieved.

If our initial preparation work reveals that your business has compliance problems we can recommend a specialist consultant who can help you to address these issues before the business goes to market. This will enable us to achieve a better price for the business and will considerably reduce the risk of the sale falling through once it has been agreed.

We have a database of many thousands of prospective buyers which we have compiled over the last 32 years period. We will only recommend serious buyers. Many of them will have bought a business through us before so we can vouch for their reliability. We will ask you to approve all the recommended buyers before they are sent details so that you can check that all of them are aligned with your business values.

Maintaining confidentiality is paramount. If your competitors get to hear about your sale they can do your business terrible harm by trying to poach your staff and your clients. For this reason, we will never advertise your business in a recognisable way and we will never send out teaser details that might enable your competitors to identify you. Prospective buyers will not even  be told which county you are in until we have a signed NDA from them.

We work hard to ensure that our marketing process is fair and transparent. All the approved buyers will be sent details on the same day and will be given an opportunity to ask questions and to meet you. As soon as we have enough interest, we will set a formal closing date for offers. We will then help you to choose the best offer and negotiate comprehensive heads of terms to protect your interests throughout the sales process.

Having completed over 700 sales, we have the expertise necessary to ensure that the vast majority of our sales complete first time and on the terms originally agreed. We will help you to choose a reliable buyer and we will  invest a huge amount of time keeping on top of the progression of the sale so that any issues can be resolved as they arise. In the unlikely event that a sale does fall through our process ensures that this usually happens early in the process. There will also usually be an underbidder that we can go back to. We work on a no sale, no fee basis so the only way that you pay us a penny is from the proceeds of a successful sale.

We complete the sale of the vast majority of the businesses that we take on within five months of being instructed.

Yes, we can assist with this. We have a panel of specialist solicitors who have worked with us for many years period between them they have dealt with the sale or purchase of well over 1000 letting agencies. All of them work on a fixed fee basis. We can also recommend specialist accountants and tax advisors if your existing advisers do not have the necessary experience to help you.

Unlike most of our competitors we work on a no sale, no fee basis. This means that the only way that you will pay us a penny is from the proceeds of a successful sale. We can afford to do this because we sell the vast majority of the businesses that we take on.

We are based in northwest London but we deal with the sale of businesses all over the UK.

We sell  letting businesses and mixed sales and letting businesses with a value of between £500,000  and £100 million. We also sell other property related businesses such as mortgage brokers, auctioneers, commercial agencies, block management businesses, town planning consultants, and conveyancing businesses. We do not deal with any business sales that are not related to the property industry.

We offer a business brokering service for clients who want to sell their business and a consultancy service for clients who want to prepare their business for a sale in the future. We do not act for buyers because we believe that doing this would create a serious conflict of interests. It is very difficult to help a buyer to purchase a business as cheaply as possible then try to persuade the same buyer to pay a premium price for another business a few weeks later.

We have worked with a large number of clients for many years helping them to grow their business in preparation for an eventual sale. We can tell you how much your business is worth now and what it would need to look like in order to achieve your target exit price. We can then help you to prepare a detailed business plan that sets out exactly how to get from here to there. Adam Walker has provided high level consultancy advice for many of the leading UK agents including Knight Frank, JLL and the Leaders Romans Group and he has huge experience as a business consultant. The preparation that you do before you sell can have a huge impact on the price that you eventually achieve for your business.

The best way is to ring us for an informal discussion about your business. During this initial call we should be able to give you an approximate valuation and some advice on its saleability. If you would prefer a more accurate valuation first then please complete our contact form and we will send you a business questionnaire to complete. The final option is to use our instant valuation tool to get an approximate valuation for your business now before you go any further. Whichever way you decide to proceed we look forward to hearing from you.