Reads Business Brokers Blog
Winter, Cash and the Heat Pump Grant: Reading HVAC Working Capital Before a Sale
Heating businesses run on a seasonal cash cycle, and heat pump installers now carry grant money owed to them. Here is why that matters in a sale and how to show it clearly.
The Reads Market View, October 2026: Retiring Owners and How the Price Gets Paid
Our second market view looks at what has moved since the first, why so many of the businesses coming to market are retirement sales, and how the price actually gets paid.
Buying a Competitor: How Trade Businesses Fund a Bolt-On
How an established trade business can fund buying a smaller rival, what a lender tests when two businesses become one, and what it means if your likeliest buyer is a competitor.
Reading a Security Monitoring Book: Signalling, Police Response and Software Income
In our view, monitoring income is the part of a security business buyers look at hardest, and not all of it is the same. Here is how the copper switch-off, police response rules and cloud subscriptions change the way a monitoring book is read.
The Fire Safety Service Calendar: How Maintenance Duties and Certification Build a Contract Book
Fire safety maintenance runs to a calendar the rules largely write. Here is how that calendar turns into contracts, why certification decides who keeps them, and how a buyer is likely to read the book.
Who Signs Off When You Go? Succession for an Electrical Contractor’s Team
A buyer of an electrical contractor is buying the people who can sign the work off. How the skills pipeline, JIB grades, pay and the Qualified Supervisor role shape succession, and what an owner can plan now.
