It is the right question, and the one we would ask first too. When someone is selling a comfortable home and a business that reliably pays for it, the obvious suspicion is that something is wrong with one of them.
Nothing is. We are changing hemispheres.
The actual reason
We have had our years here, and they were good ones. The house has been a family home, the land has fed us, and the business has quietly funded the whole thing without asking much back. We are not leaving because it stopped working. We are leaving because there is one more adventure we want before we are too sensible to attempt it.
That is genuinely all it is.
What we are not doing
We are not selling because the business is declining, because the area has changed, or because something is about to go wrong that you would find out later. If any of that were true, the due diligence process would surface it — and we are inviting that scrutiny rather than avoiding it.
We are also not splitting the sale. We could probably get more money selling the house to one buyer and the business to another. We are not doing that, because the reason this is worth having is the combination, and we would rather it went on intact.
Why the 24 months of support
Because we would rather hand this over properly than quickly.
Two years of support is unusual in a sale like this, and it is deliberate. It means you cannot really get stranded, and it means the clients — some of whom have been with us for more than a decade — experience a handover rather than a disappearance. Their continuity is part of what you are buying, so protecting it is in everyone’s interest.
What we are looking for in a buyer
Someone who wants this life, rather than someone looking for an asset. A family, a couple starting out, a semi-retired pair — we genuinely do not mind which. Someone who will keep the gardens going and treat the clients well.
We are not in a hurry. We would rather wait for the right person than push it through with the wrong one.
Interested?
Tell us where you are in the process. If it looks like a fit we'll talk properly, and if it isn't we'll say so quickly.