The market for successful lettings businesses is still strong according to one of the country’s leading business transfer agents, reported Letting Agent Today on the 28th May. Adam J Walker and Associates has sold Daisy Lets in Maidstone to (local competitor) Seekers, SD Lambert in Upton to Baker and Horner and Whites Independent Lettings in […]
Grant me just a single “if only” and I would probably be a billionaire by now. If only I had mortgaged myself to the hilt and bought more buy to let properties in the early 1990s when they were so cheap. If only I had bought all the estate agency and letting businesses that I […]
There have been a lot of stories in the trade press recently about the extraordinary prices that are being achieved for estate agency and letting businesses. One letting business has just sold for twenty-six times its profit! Another single office letting business sold for over £5 million! These prices truly are extraordinary but unfortunately there is […]
The idea for this article came to me over a year ago. I bumped into someone at an awards ceremony whom I last saw in 2008 in rather unhappy circumstances. His business had been very badly hit by the sudden downturn in the housing market and he had severe cash flow problems. He wanted advice […]
Yet another article appeared in the national press this weekend about the withdrawal of tax breaks for people who sell their business. It is the fifth article in four months and a lot business owners are starting to get very worried. At the moment if you sell your business for, say, £1 million, then you […]
If you have decided to sell your business… hold on! Adam J Walker has some excellent advice to achieve the best result. Good presentation can make an enormous difference to the price that a vendor achieves when selling a house and the same is true when selling a business. Here are my 12 top tips […]
