Guides & advice

Selling

How Much Is My Business Worth? A UK Seller's Guide

The main methods UK business transfer agents use to value a business, why adjusted profit matters, and how to get a realistic figure.

5 min read

Selling

Maximising the Value of Your Business Before You Sell

Practical steps to take 6 to 24 months before a sale to lift your sale price and make the business easier to sell.

6 min read

Selling

How to Prepare Your Business for Sale

The documents, due diligence and confidentiality groundwork that make a sale faster and smoother.

5 min read

Selling

Working With a Business Transfer Agent: What to Expect

What a transfer agent does, how they are paid, and how to choose one that will get you the right buyer at the right price.

5 min read

Selling

The Process of Selling a Business: Step by Step

From valuation to completion - the typical stages of a UK business sale and how long each one takes.

6 min read

Selling

Freehold vs Leasehold: What It Means When You Sell

How the tenure of your premises affects price, buyer appetite and the structure of the sale.

4 min read

Buying

How to Buy a Business in the UK: Step by Step

The stages of buying an existing UK business, from deciding what you want to completion day, and where buyers most often go wrong.

5 min read

Buying

Due Diligence When Buying a Business: A Practical Checklist

What to check before you commit to buying a UK business: the figures, the premises, the people, the contracts and the risks the accounts do not show.

4 min read

Buying

How to Value a Business You Want to Buy

How buyers judge whether an asking price is fair: adjusted profit, multiples, comparable businesses, assets and the risks that should lower your offer.

4 min read

Buying

Buying a Leasehold Business: What to Check in the Lease

Most small businesses for sale are leasehold. What the lease means for you as a buyer, and the terms to check before you commit.

3 min read

Buying

Reading a Business for Sale Listing: What the Figures Mean

Turnover, gross profit, net profit, adjusted profit, tenure, stock at valuation: what the figures in a business for sale listing tell you, and what they do not.

3 min read

Buying

Funding a Business Purchase: Your Options

How buyers in the UK typically pay for a business: savings, bank and specialist lending, asset finance, deferred payments to the seller and investors.

3 min read

Buying

Asset Purchase or Share Purchase: Which Are You Buying?

The two ways to buy a UK business, what you take on with each, and why most small business sales are asset purchases.

2 min read

Buying

Enquiring About a Business: NDAs, Information Packs and What Agents Expect

What happens after you enquire about a business for sale: confidentiality agreements, proof of funds, information packs and viewings.

2 min read