What is Professional Business Brokerage?
Currently there are over 17 million privately held businesses in America. Approximately 20% of these businesses are for sale at any one time, as their owners face retirement, poor health, divorce, or simple “burn-out”. Business Brokerage is the relatively new profession that lists and sells these businesses for a fee. When a business owner decides to sell, concerns about price, negotiations and confidentiality are paramount. The use of a professional Sunbelt Business Advisor eliminates these concerns for the seller. The Sunbelt Broker can market the business to the widest possible market in a professional and confidential manner. Sunbelt is a full service business brokerage firm, suited to handle any size privately held business. Our network size enables us to expose the larger business to buyers who have the financial resources to purchase such a business. As large businesses “downsize,” “re-engineer” and “rightsize”, thousands of potential small business buyers are entering the marke