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Adam Walker
Is it time to retire – or is there a better way to carry on?
Is it time to sell up and buy that yacht? Or is there a way to carry on doing what you're best at and what you love? Adam Walker has some advice.
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Features
The A-Z of acquisition
Legal expert Michael Budd takes us through some of the terms you might be challenged with if you’re buying a business – or selling your own.
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Regulation & Law
Entrepreneurs’ tax relief slashed in Budget
The controversial lifetime tax relief limit applied to the proceeds when a business founder sells up, has been cut from £10m to £1m.
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Features
Want to get ‘off the market’?
“You couldn’t give it away at the moment.” That’s one expert’s verdict on the prospect of selling a sales-based estate agency business, thanks to Brexit political paralysis. But, says Richard Reed, it’s not all doom and gloom.
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Resources
A good time to buy or sell a business
An offer’s on the table. The price is right… or is it? Even the late, great Brucie, may be pushed to know whether you should sell right now, says Adam Walker.
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Features
How smaller agents build bigger businesses
While some take fright and sell up in uncertain times, says Sheila Manchester, bolder souls build business in their quest for success.
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Guest Blogs
When is the right time to retire?
One of Adam Walker’s clients worked until he was 93, he left work on the Friday and died a happy man in his sleep on Saturday. So when is the right time to retire?
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Guest Blogs
So it’s time to sell your business
In my fifty years of business I have bought and sold a number of businesses but, even making the odd mistake along the way, the end result has been positive. There are a number of firms keen to buy in the residential sector if you want to sell your business, and there are even more businesses up for sale. It never ceases to amaze me that when someone decides to sell, they don’t work out the best way to go about it. I hope the following pointers based on a lifetime’s experience will help you prepare for a sale so that when you find a buyer, you are ready and the transaction will go ahead as planned. FIRST THINGS FIRST Now you have decided to sell, the first thing you need to decide on who is going to represent you with regards to the sale. You need an experienced firm of solicitors who are used to buying and selling businesses. The temptation is to go to the firm you have always used, but they hardly ever sell a business. House conveyance, wills, probate and down to earth family lawyers are excellent at what they do, but may not have a specialist…
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