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Value of Businesses Sold; Over £1 billion

More than 500 Businesses Sold

Over 700 Businesses Sold

Database of 12,000 qualified buyers

A Team of 8 Experienced Staff

We Only Act for Sellers

We Only Act for Sellers

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No Sale, No Fee

 UK’s #1 SELLER OF LETTING BUSINESSES

We are the UK's most experienced brokers with an unrivalled reputation for selling letting agencies with a value of between £500,000 and £100 million.

With over 32 years’ experience and a proven 6 step marketing process we have the expertise and resources necessary to ensure that you achieve the very best price for your letting agency and a smooth and trouble free sale. We are currently achieving record prices for good quality letting businesses, so whether you are leaving the letting industry for another sector or are planning to retire, now is a great time to sell your business.

Don't take a below market offer from a buyer who approaches you directly and don't run the risk of dealing with a less experienced broker. Get the price that you deserve for your business with a broker who you can trust.

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WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?

  • Outstanding-Experience-icon

    Outstanding Experience. With over 32 years in the market and more than 700 letting agency sales completed, you benefit from proven expertise and insight that no other broker can match. This depth of experience helps ensure a smoother process and the strongest possible outcome for you.

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    An Accurate Valuation. You're business will be priced using real-world evidence from more than 700 completed sales, ensuring the valuation is realistic, robust, and achievable. As a result, almost all our clients sell within plus or minus 10% of our recommended guide price.

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    The Best Process. Our tried and tested marketing process has been refined over 32 years to maximise results. All approved buyers receive details at the same time, have six weeks to engage fully, and then submit best and final offers in writing by an agreed closing date. This fairness, structure, and professionalism consistently achieves excellent prices and efficient completion.

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    Unrivalled Resources. Our dedicated team of eight professionals has over 50 years of combined service with the company. This means you benefit from consistent support, strong continuity, and a knowledgeable team working proactively on every stage of your sale.

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    Exceptional Contacts. We have a long-standing relationships with serious, experienced buyers who trust our process and complete transactions quickly and reliably. This mutual trust, built over many years, helps secure the best price, fair competition, and a smooth sale for you.

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    Integrity. We have genuinely sold over 700 letting agencies during the last 32 years, and the names of most of our past clients are listed on our website. In every case we acted for the seller, not the buyer, and handled the sale from start to finish. Many of our competitors claim to have dealt with a large number of sales, but in many of those cases they only advised the buyer.

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    A Focus on Quality. We choose to represent only strong, well-run businesses, turning away more than half of the opportunities we are offered. This ensures we can dedicate our time, expertise, and energy to achieving the very best results for the clients we do take on.

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    Confidentiality. Protecting the business is vital. That is why details are only shared with carefully qualified and pre-approved buyers, always with your prior written consent. We do not widely advertise or release recognisable teaser details, helping minimise risk and safeguarding your interests throughout the process.

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    Legal Knowledge. Having completed over 700 transactions, we have encountered and successfully resolved almost every legal challenge imaginable. This experience significantly increases the likelihood of your sale completing smoothly, on time, and on the originally agreed terms.

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    Properly Registered for AML. HMRC clearly states that all business transfer agents must be registered for AML. Many newer brokers are not registered and trading illegally means they could be fined or shut down without warning. This could cause you serious problems if you were in the middle of a sale and your transaction could collapse, costing you time and money.

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    Accountancy Expertise. Some buyers will agree a high price and then attempt to claw back money by using sophisticated accounting tricks which can reduce the price that you actually receive by as much as 20%. Our accounting expertise ensures the deal is structured fairly and protects the value of your sale, often saving far more than our fee.

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    Industry Knowledge. Before founding the brokerage, Adam Walker founded and ran a major regional estate agency group, trained over 250,000 industry professionals, and advised many leading UK firms at a strategic level. This depth of understanding means your business is not just sold - it is positioned intelligently to maximise interest and value.

  • Financial-Substance-icon

    Financial Substance. We are well-established firm with 32 years' trading history and a strong balance sheet exceeding £1 million in net assets. You can therefore feel confident that we will be here, both during your sale and afterwards, should you ever need further support in the future.

  • No-Sale-No-Fee-icon

    No Sale, No Fee. Because our success rate is so high, we are happy to work on a no sale, no fee basis. This means you only ever pay from the proceeds of a successful sale, giving you confidence and protection from unnecessary cost.

  • No-Conflicts-of-Interest-icon

    No Conflicts of Interest. We act only for sellers and never deal with acquisitions. This ensures you receive truly independent advice focused entirely on achieving the strongest price and best terms for your business, without divided loyalties.

OUR 6-STEP PROCESS

Want to enjoy a smooth, trouble-free sale and achieve the best possible price for your business?

That’s exactly what you’ll get with our streamlined 6-step process, which is supported by professional advice from our panel of carefully chosen solicitors, accountants, due diligence consultants and tax advisers.

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Laying the groundwork

We will compile a comprehensive and accurate information pack that showcases your business in the very best light. The way in which the numbers are presented will have a huge impact on the price that you achieve for your business and by ensuring the numbers are accurate we will avoid problems later in the sale.

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An accurate valuation

Setting an accurate guide price is essential in order to achieve the best price for your business. Our unrivalled experience will enable us to give you an accurate and achievable valuation. Unlike some of our competitors we will not give you an inflated value to win your business then reduce it later. We sell over 90% of our business for within plus or minus 10% of the original guide price.

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Buyer
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Our database of over 12,000 qualified buyers built up over the last 30 years, means that we never need to advertise that your business is for sale. Many of these prospects will be buyers that you would not have found yourself. We will use our experience to grade these buyers in order to ensure that the best and most reliable buyers get the details first We will then send you a list for your approval.

You will retain the absolute right to veto who receives your business details and no-one will be sent details without your written consent in advance.

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Powerful marketing

We will run a highly proactive marketing campaign over a six week period with a formal closing date for offers at the end of it. This ensures that all the potential buyers have a fair chance to make offers for your business. Bringing all the horses to the finishing line at the same time is essential in order to ensure that we achieve the very best price for your business and You will never be pressed to take an offer from the first buyer that comes along. At the end of the six week marketing campaign you will know that you achieved the best possible price for your business because of the transparency of the process that we used.

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Negotiation of terms

The best buyer isn’t necessarily the one who offers the highest price. We will help to negotiate all the other terms of the offer such as the payment terms and how much of the purchase price will be deferred. We will also use our experience to advise on the experience and track record of each of the buyers in order to ensure that you do not accept an offer from a buyer with a reputation for trying to reduce the price that they have agreed later in the process.

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Proactive sales progression

For every hour that we spend agreeing a sale we will spend several more hours progressing the sale once it has been agreed. Hundreds of things can go wrong with a sale. The most common problem is that buyers will often try to reduce the price that they have agreed to pay by claiming that they have found problems with the business during the due diligence process or by using sophisticated accounting tricks to try to cheat you out of money that should have been yours. Our job is to use our experience and technical knowledge to prevent this and to ensure that your sale completes on time and most importantly on the terms that were originally agreed.

Plus, once your sale completes, we’ll still be there to ensure the acquisition smoothly integrates into the buyer’s business and that any deferred consideration is paid to you in full.

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DON’T RISK USING A LESS EXPERIENCED BROKER

Are you thinking of using a less experienced broker?
They will never be able to achieve the same results as us, for the reasons given above.

Over the last few years and number of new brokers have begun to compete with us. However, none of them can compete with our track record of 700 completed sales with a total value of over £1 billion. This unrivalled level of expertise will enable us to achieve the very best possible price for your business and a smooth and trouble free sale in a way that no one else can do.

DON’T RISK SELLING YOUR BUSINESS YOURSELF

By selling your business yourself you will not be able to access the full buyer pool and bring buyers to submit offers on the same closing date. Without this, competition is not created, and the best price can not be achieved.

We know of many cases where a business owner has been approached directly by a buyer and has sold their business for significantly less than its market value. Several of these cases have been featured in the trade press. We have also dealt with many cases where a business owner has received an offer of £X from a private buyer and we have later achieved an offer of as much as 30% more. It is almost impossible to achieve the best price for your business unless you generate multiple offers for it. Even if you do achieve a good initial price there is a very high probability that the buyer will reduce it later in the process. If you have received a direct offer for your business do not accept it without speaking to us first.

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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

We have compiled some of the questions our sellers most often ask about selling their letting
business to provide you with helpful information and guidance.

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 reasons, tax reasons, 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 to 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 cell 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 broking 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 ways 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.

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