Prices for sale of small businesses drop
| May 27, 2008 |  View for printing |
To all the usual reasons that small businesses are put up for sale — personal problems and personnel squabbles among them — add economic woes this year. But even as for-sale listings rise around the country, so is buyer interest.
The problem, though, for owners seeking to sell their businesses is that prices appear to be softening — a reflection of a variety of causes, among them tighter credit markets, rising costs and fewer customers.
By ELIZABETH OLSON
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