Buying a Business with Murphy in Portland
Murphy Business adheres to the highest professional standards when helping you buy a business. Our affiliations with National and International Business Brokerage and Merger & Acquisition associations help reveal the greatest opportunity to buyers. We will work as a team to allow you to reach your ultimate goal. When choosing the Portland (OR) Murphy Business office, you will have a professional partner to represent you through the entire process and answer all of your questions on how to buy a business.
The Portland-Vancouver metro area offers the world an increasingly competitive location from which to conduct business. Entrepreneur Magazine has just ranked Portland in their top ten start-up friendly cities. They note great resources and many advantages: including vibrant electronics, clean-tech, health sciences and apparel sectors, and one of the largest and most innovative open source software communities in the world. Plus, the quality of life–Portland is a perennial favorite on most livable and most sustainable cities lists–means a high retention rate for workers.
As the transportation hub of the Pacific Northwest, the metro area supports a broad range of industry needs. The region’s transportation network integrates highway, railroad, airport and river barge facilities and offers market access to international and domestic markets. The region ranks well in the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index: Oregon ranks 10th.
Workers in the region are plentiful and well educated: 36 percent of the region’s adult population (those aged 25 and over) have an associate’s college degree or higher level of education, compared to the national average of 24 percent.
Through a unique combination of climate and geography, the region offers two distinct utility advantages to business and industry: a pure and plentiful water supply and a low-cost hydroelectric power base. Portland General Electric and Pacific Power, the major investor-owned electric utility companies serving the metropolitan area, have earned top national rankings for their green power programs. The region is a recognized leader in energy efficiency. PGE’s renewable power program ranks first in the nation.
On average, homes in the region are less expensive than comparable housing in other West Coast cities and housing costs remain competitive with those in cities around the nation. The affordability and quality of housing available in and around Portland remains an attractive feature of living and doing business in the region.
How to Buy a Business
Our experienced business brokers help each buyer find the right business for sale, that matches your financial and personal goals. The Murphy Business professionals utilize a seven-step process, that includes:
- Conducting a needs-analysis for your buying criteria
- Running a comprehensive search of businesses that meet your needs to find the most suitable business for sale
- Conducting a fair market analysis for your chosen target business for sale
- Preparing an offer and negotiating terms and conditions
- Financial and funding support
- Closing
- Transfer of assets
Benefits to Buyers
Murphy Business & Financial Corporation works with Buyers in the pursuit of their dream. We help you through each step of buying a business and we answer the complex and challenging questions of “How to Buy a Business”. All of our professionals have owned or managed a business in the past, which gives us first-hand experience to help pilot you through the process of buying a business. Our goal is to help each buyer avoid the mistakes that so many buyers fall into while investigating the business. We work with you hand-in-hand, so you will proceed through each step and succeed in closing.
We provide buyers maximum exposure during their buying search. Through our global network affiliations, we have access to thousands of available businesses for sale. Many of these businesses for sale are never advertised publicly, which helps provide you the maximum number of qualified candidates for purchase within your targeted geographic area of consideration.
Call the Portland (OR) Murphy Business professionals today for a successful business buying experience.