The Uk’s Number 1 Free Landlord Association & Advice Website | | Undisclosed Relocatable | | The UK’s number 1 Free Landlord Association & Advice Website Confidentially offered for sale Ref No: IE053 Location: Fully Re-Locatable Asking Price: £425,000 | | BUSINESS FOR SALE ADVERT DETAILS ADVERT NUMBER : 38801
ADVERT IMPRESSIONS : 149,931 TIME(S) | | | | BUSINESS SECTOR: | Services | | TRADE TYPE: | Legal Business | | SALE: | Agent Sale | LEASEHOLD: | £425,000 | | | | | | | | | | Add this business advert to your: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BUSINESS DETAILS: | Business Profile:
Established in 2006, this business has created online success by providing the largest, free to join, national association for Landlords of UK properties. This company provides essential back-up and online support to help landlords all over the UK, absolutely free.
The website has become one of the UK’s fastest growing web pages in this market with an excess of 15,000 registered members, growing at a rate of 15-25 new members per day and achieving more than 20,000 unique visitors per month,
The company achieves its income from contracted advertisers and currently enjoys an expected income to be in excess of £200,000 this year.
The company are the only landlord association that is recommended by primelocation.com, FindaProperty.com and Property-Abroad.com.
In addition, this is the only Landlord Association to offer free advice, guidance and information. All other associations charge the landlord money for this service, which is the main reason for their rapid and continued growth whilst their counterparts are either stagnating or diminishing in membership numbers.
Equipment:
The business’ website is very comprehensive, with all advertising clients and registered users maintained on its database. The website itself has a built in programme to monitor hits and visits, recording an average of 600 unique visitors per day, all of whom are high net worth property investors and landlords of UK property.
A full in house email system is a key strength of this company allowing them to communicate and send paid for marketing material to all of their members. Their IP address and server have enjoyed 5 years of continuous, reputable usage and is not blocked by any ISP or email provider. An accolade and a rarity in today’s online business arena.
Customer Service:
The company is proud to work with a wide range of clients across many industries as well as private individuals. In each case, the company seeks to build a long-term relationship based on trust, reliability and support. The company invests time getting to know and understand a client’s requirements and business in order to maximize any added value and to fully serve them. Solutions have been delivered across a range of clients and markets, including many high-end brand name organisations.
Key Strengths:
This business has an excellent reputation for free, honest and friendly advice to its users. The quality of its website is outstanding, with a host of information broken down into easy to navigate headings and subjects earning it a place as a finalist for Best Website in the Buy To Let Awards 2011.
Growth and Expansion:
There is unlimited potential within this business; the expansion possibilities are endless due to the fact the company’s structure is such so as to accommodate growth into new areas. The opportunity is ripe for a new owner to broaden the services and products still further by introducing new products.
Key Opportunities:
This is an outstanding opportunity to build on the existing services and customer base of this business. With a strong demand for products, combined with a capacity to increase turnover further, a new owner contributing fresh initiatives will have every opportunity to build on an excellent platform.
The company maintains an extensive base of satisfied customers who appreciate the company's superior levels of customer service. This database is up to date so it is ideal for future development from existing customers, with further business coming from new customers. There are many excellent avenues for growth, not least the addition of many more product lines and far greater use of advertising media.
Employees:
The business is currently owner run, with no additional employees.
Advertising and Marketing:
A high proportion of the business's revenue has been due to its excellent reputation for quality and service, which is shown in it’s continuous number 1 rankings on Google and all major search engines, recommendations from national brand name websites and of course strong word of mouth recommendation and testimonials - the most effective form of advertisement for any organisation and its reputation enhancement.
Furthermore, the company has outstanding relationship with Google as their leading supplier of landlord related news. This is testament to the success of the company’s search engine optimisation capabilities.
Great success has been achieved without regular national exposure and there is massive potential for growth through creative marketing on a national level, building on a well recognised and established name and significant portfolio - both online and offline.
Premises:
This business is fully re-locatable, with no premises included in the sale of the business.
Business Hours:
Website is available 24/7. Sales business is conducted 9-5 Mon-Fri.
Financial Information:
The business is being offered for sale on a going concern basis, all financial discussions will take place directly between the vendor and all interested parties under the auspices of Turner Butler.
The company achieves its income from contracted advertisers and currently enjoys an expected income to be in excess of £200,000 this year.
Reason for Sale:
The current owner wishes to pursue other business projects following the sale of this company.
Support and Training:
Full support and training will be provided to the successful purchaser.
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