What are the best sites to search businesses that are for sale?
My boss asked me to find listings of "party/formal businesses" that are for sale in Denver, Kansas City, Beverly Hills, and West Hollywood. I've never done this before.. Is there like an Autotrader site for businesses?
[{"id": "d3tg0gh", "text": "www.bizbuysell.com is probably the biggest ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d3tit9t", "text": "Try loopnet.com or costar.com... I am a commercial RE broker in NYC and I use those sites to look up properties but I see restaurants/caf\u00e9s for sale all the time on CoStar", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d3ueqdx", "text": "For closed sales (to know if you're paying market value or not) check out bizcomps and pratt's stats for business sales, also loopnet and costar as mentioned which are typically linked to real estate in some form.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d3uk9r9", "text": "Loopnet and Costar are the two I use as a real estate agent. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d3v63zn", "text": "In addition to what everyone else said, you may want to google for business brokers in the area and call them directly.  They can float that you are buying to people when they prospect and at least in my city, there are only a handful of legitimate business brokers and it is a very closed off and private community.  Having the brokers know you is a very good idea that will make this way easier.  \n\nOccasionally low value businesses hit the MLS here too when someone hires uncle bob the re agent who has 0 fucking idea how to do business deals.  I'd check that.\n\nMake sure your company gets a good lawyer to handle this and ideally a cpa to consult on valuation.  Business brokers are not licensed in many states (no idea about the ones you mention) and commonly ride the line between criminally negligent and negligently criminal.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]