BreakThru Realty

Sell Your Business in Palm Beach County

For owners of a business in Palm Beach County. Know what your business is worth, and sell it without your staff, customers or competitors hearing first. Selling a business involves more than finding a buyer: BreakThru Realty values your business from what comparable Florida businesses actually sold for, markets it without naming it, brings you buyers who have signed an NDA and shown their funds, and manages the lender, the landlord and the closing while you keep running the business.

Find Out What My Business Is Worth · (786) 914-1017

Your first step: Confidential Business Exit Review

Start With a Confidential Business Exit Review

Your business represents years of decisions, relationships and work. Before anyone hears it might be for sale, know what it would sell for, what a buyer's lender will accept, and what you would take home. A licensed business broker prepares it and walks you through it privately.

What you receive

  • A recast of your earnings into seller's discretionary earnings, with the add-backs documented
  • A price range from closed sales of comparable Florida businesses, with the reasoning
  • The lease, staffing and financing issues that would move the price, and what to fix first
  • What a buyer's SBA lender is likely to accept
  • An estimate of what you would take home after the fee and any payoff

What happens next

  1. Answer a few questions about the business. Revenue and what you take home are enough to start.
  2. A business broker prepares the review from comparable sales.
  3. We call within one business day to walk through it, privately.
  4. Nothing is listed, and nobody is contacted, unless you decide to sell.

Free and confidential. The details you give us are seen only by the broker preparing the review. We do not contact your landlord, staff or customers.

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The Palm Beach County Market for a Business Like Yours

Listed for sale now

Businesses for sale in Palm Beach County77
Median asking price$220,000
Listed in the last 30 days14
Price reduced since listing33
Largest groupsrestaurants and food businesses (27), salons, spas and health businesses (14), service businesses (8)

Sold in the last twelve months

Businesses sold10
Median sold price$138,500
Median sold-to-asking89.4%
Median days on market102
SoldBusiness typeCityAskingSold price
Sep 29, 2026Laundromat BusinessWest Palm Beach$995,000$450,000
Jul 31, 2026BusinessDelray Beach$11,975$13,800
Jul 10, 2026Service BusinessLake Worth$2,500,000$1,500,000
Jul 1, 2026Auto Service BusinessBoca Raton$800,000$800,000
Jun 8, 2026Service BusinessNorth Palm Beach$199,000$187,000
May 1, 2026RestaurantLake Worth$90,000$80,000
Apr 2, 2026RestaurantBoca Raton$100,000$90,000
Mar 26, 2026Service BusinessBelle Glade$3,000,000$2,720,000

Source: active and closed business opportunity listings on the MLS, refreshed through the day. Asking prices are what sellers hope for; sold prices are what buyers paid. Business names are withheld. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

The Palm Beach County Business Market

Palm Beach County has fewer businesses on the MLS than Miami-Dade or Broward, so a well-presented one is noticed. Listings concentrate in Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach and Greenacres, along Federal Highway, Glades Road, Atlantic Avenue, Clematis Street and the Congress Avenue and Military Trail corridors. Restaurants, salons and spas, medical and wellness practices and home-service businesses lead. Seasonal residents lift winter sales, so buyers read twelve months of numbers, not the peak.

Who Buys Businesses in Palm Beach County

Buyers include professionals relocating from the Northeast and the Midwest who want to own a business, semi-retired owners looking for one with a manager in place, and local operators adding a location. Many are well capitalised and pay for clean books, staff who stay and a lease with years left on it. Below a few million dollars, SBA financing is common.

Leases, Licences and Local Rules

The Palm Beach County Tax Collector issues the county's local business tax receipt and most cities issue their own; both are reissued to a new owner. Restaurants carry a state licence from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants, and full liquor quota licences are limited by the county's population. Boca Raton and the Town of Palm Beach have strict sign and appearance rules, which matter to a buyer planning to rebrand. Confirm the current requirements with the county and the city.

Selling by City in Palm Beach County

Each Palm Beach County city where businesses regularly sell has its own page: Boca Raton, West Palm Beach and Boynton Beach. Each one describes where businesses trade in that city and links to the buyers searching it, because the same people browsing Palm Beach County businesses for sale on this site are the buyers for yours.

Confidentiality Comes First

Staff who hear a rumour start looking for work, competitors tell your customers, and suppliers tighten terms. So the business is marketed as a blind profile: the industry, the area, the size and the numbers, never the name or the address. A buyer signs a non-disclosure agreement and shows proof of funds before we tell them who you are, and showings happen after hours. The landlord hears once there is an accepted offer.

Getting the Financials Ready

A buyer's lender will ask for three years of business tax returns, year-to-date profit and loss, a balance sheet and bank or merchant statements that support the sales. The add-backs that raise your earnings have to be documented, or the lender ignores them. We prepare this package with you, and the cleaner it is the higher the price holds through due diligence.

Questions you may be asking

Will my employees, customers or landlord find out?
Not from us. The review itself involves nobody but you and the broker. If you later sell, the business is marketed without its name or address, buyers sign a non-disclosure agreement and prove their funds before they learn who you are, and the landlord is approached only once there is an accepted offer.
What does a business broker charge?
A success fee paid from the proceeds at closing, set out in writing in the listing agreement before you sign anything. The review costs nothing.
My books are not perfect.
Few are. The review shows which add-backs a lender will accept and which records to tidy before a buyer looks, so the price holds through due diligence.
I only know my revenue.
Tell us the revenue and what you take home, even roughly. We work out the rest with you and ask for tax returns later, only if you want a firm range.

Find Out What My Business Is Worth

Tell us the type of business, the city, how long it has operated, annual revenue, owner benefit or seller's discretionary earnings, EBITDA if you track it, monthly rent and lease expiry, number of employees, how involved you are, why you are selling, your timeline and whether you would consider seller financing. A licensed BreakThru business broker prepares a confidential valuation from comparable sales and replies within one business day. Everything you tell us is confidential, the valuation is free, and nothing is listed or announced unless you decide to sell. Prefer to talk now? Call (786) 914-1017.

Questions Owners Ask

Is BreakThru Realty a business broker in Palm Beach County?
Yes. BreakThru Realty is a licensed Florida brokerage with a business brokerage division that values, markets and sells businesses across Palm Beach County, alongside the county's businesses-for-sale pages that buyers search every day.
How much is my business worth?
Most owner-operated businesses in Florida sell for a multiple of seller's discretionary earnings: net profit plus the owner's salary, benefits and one-time or personal expenses run through the business. Where the multiple falls depends on the industry, the lease, the staff, the trend in the numbers and how much the business depends on you. A confidential valuation gives you the range for your business and the reasons behind it.
Will my employees, customers or landlord find out?
Not from us. The business is marketed without its name or address, buyers sign a non-disclosure agreement and prove their funds before they learn who you are, and showings happen after hours or are presented as something else. The landlord is approached only once there is an accepted offer, because the lease has to be assigned.
How long does it take to sell a business?
Six to nine months from listing to closing is common for a well-prepared small business, faster when the price is right and the records are clean, longer for businesses that need a licensed buyer or a franchisor's approval. The escrow period after an accepted offer is usually sixty to ninety days.
What does a business broker charge?
Brokers selling small businesses usually charge a success fee paid from the proceeds at closing, commonly quoted in the market at around ten percent of the price, often with a minimum fee; larger sales are usually priced on a sliding scale. BreakThru's fee is set out in writing in the listing agreement before you sign anything, and the valuation costs nothing.

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