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In the business-for-sale market there's good news and bad news.
After three years of searching for the right opportunity, Curtis Walker quit a six-figure job at J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. in December 2007 and purchased Association Partners Inc., a Carol Stream property management company that serves homeowners associations.
Investors weren't the only losers when the stock market crashed last September. Business owners also watched their company valuations plummet.
Finding ways to expand your restaurant concept is always a challenge, perhaps more so in today's economic climate. But because those same market conditions present unique circumstances, now may be the perfect time to branch out.
Consider these 4 characteristics before putting your business on the market.
The median price for businesses sold in South Florida plummeted 43 percent in the second quarter, year-over-year.
The number of small businesses listed for sale in metro Atlanta in the second quarter was down nearly 17 percent, but much better than the 50 percent nosedive at the national level.
Sales of Internet companies that provide goods and services to consumers declined only 14% in the second quarter, from 29 to 25, but the median sale price slid by a third to $100,000 from $150,000.
Today's challenging economy presents some unique opportunities for business expansion for those who have a unique set of circumstances. Act now to expand your business and you may find that you're very well-positioned once the economy turns around.
Closed deals and the prices sellers paid both dropped sharply in the last quarter.
Q: I am pretty sure that I will lose my job. I don't want to start a business from scratch, so what do you think of buying a pre-existing business? And if that is a good idea like I think it is, what are the possibilities of getting the owner to finance the purchase? My credit isn't great.
Small businesses in metro Atlanta sold for 20 percent less in the first quarter than they did a year ago, according to new data from online business broker BizBuySell.
The median asking price for small businesses in the Milwaukee and Waukesha areas plummeted in the first quarter of 2009 with few deals coming to fruition, a new report that tracks transactions showed.
Barbecue is serious business in Texas, sometimes prompting lawsuits over sauce-recipe rights and causing family rifts, like the famous fracas over Lockhart's legendary Kreutz Market.
Fewer business owners are pitching for-sale signs on their front yards and even qualified buyers are having trouble financing the deals that do exist thanks to the troubled economy, according to new data from the first quarter of this year.
The new interactive Community, free to the public, will serve as a forum for experts and business brokers to answer questions from small business owners and potential business buyers.
The median asking price for businesses for sale in the Providence area was higher in the first quarter of 2009 compared with the same period a year ago, according to the latest data from BizBuySell, a national Web site that specializes in commercial sales.
If you were thinking of selling your carwash this year, you may want to think again. Market conditions today have scared away prospective buyers and those who are shopping are typically looking for a basement bargain deal.
As the ranks of the unemployed continue to grow by the month, those that find themselves out of work for an extended period of time are increasingly considering buying a business as means of generating income.
Bizbuysell.com helped to facilitate the sale of 20 lawn-care and landscaping businesses in the third quarter.
In the past year, the median asking price for businesses for sale in the San Jose-Santa Clara-Sunnyvale metropolitan area has increased while businesses' revenue has dropped, according to a business-for-sale marketplace report.
Skittish investors and a rapidly declining economy have stymied the once brisk buying and selling of small businesses in the region.
Small business owners are finding fewer interested buyers due to the stumbling economy and the ongoing credit crunch.
The median asking price for local small businesses put on the sales block continued to rise in the fourth quarter, but prices fell for firms that actually sold, according to new data from BizBuySell, a national business-for-sale Web site.
The news is bleak, but in the right market and industry you can sell your business.
BizBuySell is the Internet's largest and most heavily trafficked business for sale marketplace, with more business for sale listings, more unique users, and more search activity than any other service.
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