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After three years of waiting for a better price, one owner’s business sold for just 20% of its original asking price. Here’s why planning your exit while the business is healthy and growing puts you in a position of strength with buyers.

The SBA’s proposed size standards overhaul would consolidate nearly 1,000 industry standards into 338 and newly classify about 114,541 businesses as small. For Seattle-area business owners planning to sell, higher thresholds could make more businesses eligible for SBA 7(a) acquisition financing, widening the pool of qualified buyers. Seattle business broker Grace Chang explains what’s changing and how owners can prepare.

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Big changes are coming to SBA-financed business acquisitions — and buyers in Seattle, Bellevue, and across Washington State should be paying close attention. The U.S. Small Business Administration has issued SOP 50 10 8.1, effective October 1, 2026. The new SOP...

When business owners in Seattle and Bellevue start planning their exit, they think about valuation, buyers, and taxes first. What they don't think about until it becomes a due diligence problem is who owns the website. I get some version of this question on nearly...

It seems like every day there's another headline predicting an economic slowdown. Higher interest rates, inflation, and trade uncertainty have dominated the news cycle. Yet when I talk with business owners across the Pacific Northwest, from Seattle importers to...

If you own a business in the Greater Seattle area, you've probably noticed the conversation has shifted. Rising costs, new tax surcharges, and a cooling optimism index have made headlines across Western Washington this year. As a business broker working with owners...