Business Sales will grow in 2015
While overall the business transaction market continues to flourish, some will say it has already returned to pre-recession level. While economic growth has boosted transaction activity, conditions are still not ideal for buyers trying to obtain funding. There remains a financial gap that must usually be filled through seller financing. Seller financing can be important or essential to completing transactions in today’s market
Although 2014 was a great year for small business transactions, we are overwhelmingly optimistic that 2015 may be even better. We believe there will be an even larger number of business owners looking to sell, and seller expectations will be more realistic, thus improving sales prices.
That is likely due to the belief that the current buyers’ market will begin to shift back toward the sellers, creating a more balanced market overall. In fact, some business transfer agents may be seeing this occur already.
“While the industry has experienced high business transaction levels for two consecutive years now, it’s great to see industry experts’ belief that it has not yet plateaued; we expect 2015 to continue the trend of steady improvement in the business-for-sale market.”