For Franchise Owners
Sell Your Franchise to the Right Buyer, at the Highest Defensible Price.
A confidential valuation, built on what your franchise actually earns. No cost, no obligation, and nothing to pay until it sells.
A confidential valuation, built on what your franchise actually earns. No cost, no obligation, and nothing to pay until it sells.
You signed the agreement, built the unit, hired the team and made the numbers work. Maybe you’re ready to retire. Maybe you’re moving. Maybe you’ve got another project and you’re out of hours. Maybe the brand stopped being the right fit.
Whatever the reason, you probably have the same three questions every franchise owner has.
What is my franchise actually worth?
How do I sell without my team, my customers or my franchisor finding out?
Will my franchisor approve the buyer I find?
That’s where we start.
Your buyer needs capital and the brand’s approval — background, experience, sometimes a personal interview. A buyer who can afford it isn’t automatically a buyer who can have it. We read your franchise agreement first and we qualify buyers against the brand’s criteria, not just their bank statement.
There’s a transfer fee, the buyer goes through the brand’s training, and they sign a fresh agreement rather than inheriting yours. Each of those is a number or a delay a buyer will try to price in. We put them on the table at the start so they don’t become a discount at the end.
A buyer who has never seen a Franchise Disclosure Document will spend weeks getting nervous about things that are completely normal. Ours come to us already choosing between brands.
Most owners pay themselves in ways that don’t show up as profit. Your salary, the car, the phone, the family member on payroll, the one-time costs, the personal expenses running through the business — those come back into the earnings. In plain terms: what you actually take out of the business goes back into the number buyers see, and that almost always raises the price.
If you work in the business full time, a buyer has to replace you. We price that in with a market manager salary so the number holds up.
Remaining term, renewal, transfer fee, right of first refusal, required remodels, territory rights. All of it affects the price, and all of it comes out in due diligence anyway.
Not one number. A range, how we got there, and the two or three things that would move the top of it.
It costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Plenty of owners get one two years before they sell.
One location, usually owner-operated, often the first franchise they ever bought.
Two to ten units, with managers in place and a real org chart.
Retirement, relocation, a partner split, a new venture, or a brand that stopped fitting.
Most of the franchises we sell do between $300K and $5M in annual sales. If yours is outside that, tell us anyway — we’ll be straight with you about whether we’re the right fit.
Thirty minutes, confidential. What you have, why you’re thinking about it, what you want out of it.
You send financials and your franchise agreement. We recast, normalize and price. You get a range you can defend.
We agree on price, terms and how we’ll work together. An exclusive listing agreement, typically twelve months and negotiable.
An anonymous profile goes to our buyer network, to private franchise channels and to platforms, without the brand name or the address.
We vet for capital, experience and the brand’s own criteria. Every buyer signs an NDA. We negotiate price, terms and structure on your side of the table.
We prepare your buyer for the brand’s process and manage it with them: application, interview, training schedule and transfer fee.
Lenders, attorneys, landlord consent and the transfer documents, coordinated until it closes.
The handover, and the accountants, attorneys and lenders we trust if you need them. No charge for an introduction and nothing in it for us.
Some franchises sell in weeks. Some take a year. We won’t promise you a date we don’t control.
Category and region only. Never the brand name or the address.
Every buyer signs before they learn which franchise it is.
Vetted for capital and experience before they see a number.
First conversations are virtual. Site visits happen on your schedule.
Not until you want them to. The brand has to approve your buyer eventually, but that happens once you have a qualified buyer and a deal worth approving — not while you’re deciding. We’ll tell you exactly when that moment is for your agreement, and you’ll be on the call.
“Selling my ABA business in South Florida came with challenges outside of anyone’s control, from financing hurdles to the complexities of the healthcare industry. Over about four months, Yeliv and her team stayed with me through every challenge, kept things moving, and always gave me honest advice. In the end, we closed the sale.”
The owner was active-duty military and out of time to run it.
The owner was relocating outside the country and had lost confidence in other brokers.
Your franchisor approves the sale. Producing the buyer is a different job. Brand resale programs are usually run by the development team, whose work is signing new territories — your unit is competing for attention with brand-new deals. We market your franchise to buyers who are choosing among 700+ brands and haven’t picked yours yet, and we represent you, not the brand.
Nothing until your franchise sells. We work on a success fee, agreed before you sign anything. No upfront fees, no monthly retainer, no charge for the valuation.
It varies more for franchises than for independent businesses, because the brand’s approval sits in the middle. We’ve closed in weeks and we’ve closed in a year.
We work on an exclusive listing agreement, and it usually runs twelve months. Here’s why it’s that long: a franchise sale has a step an ordinary business sale doesn’t, and the franchisor’s approval process sits in the middle of it. Twelve months gives the deal room to reach closing instead of expiring halfway through the brand’s review. It’s negotiable. Tell us what you had in mind and we’ll talk about it before you sign anything.
Usually the buyer’s finances, their background and experience, their completion of training, and the transfer itself. Some agreements add a right of first refusal, which lets the brand take the deal on the same terms. We check yours before we price anything.
Not from us. Anonymous listing, NDA before anyone learns the brand, and you decide when your team is told.
No. It’s the normal starting point. Personal expenses running through the business are exactly what the recast is for — done properly, it raises your price rather than lowering it.
Our sister firm DealMakers USA does. If you own both, we’ll handle both.
Sí. Todo el proceso puede ser en español, de la primera llamada al cierre.
A confidential valuation, at no cost. We’ll recast your numbers, read your franchise agreement, and give you a range you can defend.
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