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If you are researching buying or selling a business, here is a great place to start.

Buying a business isn’t just about what it’s doing now, it’s about how well it can adapt to what’s coming next. In a world shaped by rapid technology shifts, climate pressure, and changing social expectations, smart buyers look beyond the balance sheet. If long-term value is your goal, you need to be asking: Can this business keep up?

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Future-Proof Investments: How to Spot a Business That’s Built to Last

Selling your business isn’t just a transaction—it’s the final chapter of everything you’ve built, and ideally, the beginning of your next adventure. A strong exit strategy doesn’t just improve your sale price; it gives buyers confidence, keeps the process smooth, and puts you in control of how the story ends.

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Building a Strong Exit Strategy: How To Prepare Your Business For Sale

For business owners in New Zealand looking to sell, the end of the financial year (EOFY) presents a golden opportunity to strengthen their valuation. With freshly updated financial statements, potential buyers gain greater confidence in the business’s performance, making it easier to justify a higher asking price.

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Why Your Business’s Valuation Matters Post-EOFY

As the financial year concludes, business buyers have a prime opportunity to analyse newly released financial statements. These documents provide a transparent view of a business’s financial health, allowing for informed decision-making. Understanding and interpreting financial data effectively is crucial in assessing the viability of a business acquisition.

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Post-Financial Year Insights: Leveraging Updated Financial Data to Inform Your Business Purchase

As we settle into the new year, Neil Craigen, LINK Business’s Auckland Ellerslie office sales manager, sheds light on what the upcoming trends of 2025 means for business owners and aspiring business owners looking for their opportunity to buy. The key is: confidence. While 2024 presented its challenges, 2025 has emerged with business owners approaching the year with a renewed resolve.

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Rising Confidence, Falling Interest Rates – Thrive In 2025

If you are looking to become a business owner of either a franchise or an independent business, the time to act is now. Make sure you are prepared to make an informed decision as this will have implications that extend beyond daily operations to tax planning, financial positioning, and long-term growth potential. Understanding the fundamental differences between franchise and independent models can help you make an informed decision that aligns with your goals.

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Franchise vs. Independent Business: Making the Right Choice Before EOFY

When considering a business exit, timing the sale of a business can be just as critical as the decision to sell itself. One of the key questions that can arise is whether to finalise a sale before the end of the financial year (EOFY) or to wait until post-EOFY market conditions stabilise. While each option presents distinct advantages and challenges, the right choice depends on factors such as financial positioning, tax implications, buyer sentiment, and broader economic conditions in New Zealand.

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Timing the Market: How to Decide If You Should Sell Before or After EOFY

Turning a side hustle into a lifestyle business is an accomplishment many entrepreneurs in New Zealand take great pride in. These ventures often prioritise flexibility and work-life balance, making them uniquely appealing to buyers who value freedom as much as profitability. If you’re considering selling your lifestyle business, positioning it as an attractive opportunity requires careful planning and a strategic approach.

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From Side Hustle to Sale: Selling A Lifestyle Business

Timing of when to buy a business is equally as critical as the decision to buy a business itself. February is often an overlooked month as a key time to begin the process of buying a business. However, as the second month into the new year, the window of opportunity couldn’t be greater. The combination of zeal for actioning new year’s goals and to finish off the current financial year settled and confident, means there is ample buying opportunity.

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Timing Your Purchase: Why February Is Prime Time for Business Opportunities

Whether you’re planning to sell your company sometime soon or sometime in the future; now is the time to ensure that your business isn’t all about you. From the latest Sellability Score* research involving 2,300 companies from around the globe, here are two key factors that are linked to the probability of getting an offer for your business when it’s time to sell.

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Is Your Business You-Proof?

You’ve built up a sizeable business. It’s profitable and still growing, but you know there’s more to life than 65 hour weeks. You’re an “empty nester” and keen for more golf and extended vacations. You’re ready to sell. However, your financial advisor tells you that thanks to the exiting baby boomers, businesses are trading at lower multiples values than ever. You’ll need the proceeds from your business sale to fund your superannuation. Time to get out, but how do you maximise your sale value?

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Look Forward to a Successful Business Sale

You’re contemplating buying a company because you believe that you can improve the financial performance of not just that company, but your own as well. That’s called synergies or more crudely 1 + 1 = 3.

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