The Hearthside Group is a team of business brokers specializing in hospitality properties.
We offer real estate brokerage and consulting services to both buyers and sellers.
Decades of experience in the hospitality and real estate industries inform our work.
Our approach is highly individualized and results-oriented.
Buying, owning, operating, and then selling a hospitality property is a journey, a cycle if you will, that begs for education along the way for optimum results. No matter where you are in that cycle, entering with unbridled enthusiasm or exiting with a look toward a new future, the Hearthside Group has the experience to educate you about how to move forward, to hold your hand, and to get you through what can be a complex and challenging process.
We are hospitality business brokers with first hand experience in all aspects of the buying and selling process. More often than not, we complete the full cycle with customers, meaning, we help them when they want to buy and then again when they are ready to sell. Our approach is a personal one, and people trust us and value our experience and counsel.
The buyer journey begins with a dream. Most often, the dream begins years before the purchase, a glimmer of an idea. The dream may be inspired by a stay at an exceptional bed and breakfast inn. It may be inspired by the love of travel and special experiences. Often, the opportunity for creativity and self-expression looms large as does the desire to be self-governed and to work with a spouse. Sound familiar?
The next step is to become educated about what it really means to be the owner/operator of a hospitality business. Enter the Hearthside Group! Sign up for one of our seminars, plan a one-on-one intensive, or just pick up the phone to run your ideas by us. You will find us willing participants in teaching you the critical pieces of information you need to know.
Then the search begins. Start to gain an understanding of what type of business will work for you by studying what’s out there in the marketplace. If you want to know whether a particular property that interests you is a clunker or a performer, we will tell you. We will also identify opportunities within any business for improvement.
The excitement really begins when you identify a property that seems to check all of your boxes. Hearthside Group will walk you through the purchase process from lending to inspections to licensing to contract to closing. Again, you will find us to be an endless resource as we have been through this process so many times for all types of hospitality businesses.
Selling your hospitality property brings your journey full circle and allows you to embrace a new future. The process can take anywhere from six months to two years depending on the market. We can let you know how to prepare your finances and your property for sale, set a realistic and achievable selling price, and support you through the process from listing to sale.
We look forward to helping you navigate the hospitality real estate marketplace, and to answer any questions you may have about buying or selling hospitality properties.
