Buy, sell or finance a Texas business with a business broker who closes

From October 1, 2026, buyers put in at least 10 percent of the total project cost, which includes working capital and closing costs.

Financials, the business name and the location are released after you sign an NDA and our team verifies it by hand. That usually takes a few hours on a weekday. We work this way because most of our sellers have not told their staff, their landlord or their competitors that they are selling.

Nobody learns your business is for sale from us. We market confidential listings by segment, type and state only, with no photos that identify the location. Buyers see the name, the address and the numbers after they sign an NDA that our team verifies. Most sellers tell their staff after the contract is signed.

Business Advisory Services buys and sells businesses and commercial property, mainly gas stations and convenience stores, hotels and motels, land, and main street businesses. The same desk also arranges acquisition financing, including SBA 7(a) and 504, so valuation, marketing, buyer screening, financing and closing run through one office rather than four.

Texas and Illinois. Houston and the surrounding metro is the home market, including Pasadena, Pearland, Katy, Sugar Land, Conroe and the Woodlands area, with deals taken across Texas where the asset type fits. Chicago is the second market, where Business Advisory Services also runs a Commercial RoundTable chapter. Buyers come from across the country and from overseas.

Gas stations and convenience stores, hotels and motels, commercial land, retail and industrial property, car washes, and owner operated main street businesses. Current listings run from $275,000 to $9 million. Businesses that depend entirely on the owner's personal license, and anything with no financial records at all, are usually not sellable.

Sellers start with a value range, which takes four questions and returns a range on the page before anyone asks for contact details. Buyers start by signing the confidentiality agreement for the listing they are interested in, which takes about five minutes. Either way the first call usually happens within one business day.

Yes. Overseas buyers are common on hotels and fuel properties in particular. Financing is the main difference: SBA loans require the operating company to be majority owned by US citizens or lawful permanent residents, so a foreign buyer typically uses conventional debt or cash. Not a commitment to lend. Subject to lender underwriting. Terms vary by borrower.