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Strategic Business Brokers Group

Strategic Business Brokers Group publicly presents business brokerage and M&A services for Arizona business owners and buyers, including valuation, confidential marketing, buyer screening, negotiation, and due-diligence support.

Key takeaway

What stands out about Strategic Business Brokers Group

The firm publicly states that it serves small to mid-sized privately held businesses and businesses with annual revenue of $50,000 to $50 million. Its services include business sales, acquisitions, valuations, transaction management, and commercial real estate.[1][2][3][4][7][8][9]

What does Strategic Business Brokers Group do?

Strategic Business Brokers Group is an Arizona business brokerage and M&A advisory firm. Its website identifies Brian Bond, CBB as principal and lists offices in Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Tucson.

The firm publicly describes services for small to mid-sized privately held businesses, including business sales, acquisitions, and valuations.[1][2][7]

Publicly stated services include business sales, mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate, and services for businesses with annual revenue of $50,000 to $50 million.

The firm’s business-brokerage process includes valuation, confidential marketing and listing, buyer pre-screening, deal structuring and negotiation, and due-diligence support. Its M&A materials state that valuation work evaluates adjusted earnings, assets, liabilities, and market positioning and uses asset, market, and income approaches.[2][3][4]

Owners comparing intermediaries can also review Auxo’s business broker, M&A advisor and investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and M&A advisor fee guide.

RevenuePublicly stated range
Lower published point$50,000
Upper published point$50MILLION

Published criteria: The firm states that it specializes in small to mid-sized privately held businesses and serves businesses with annual revenue of $50,000 to $50 million.[7]

What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Strategic Business Brokers Group?

Owners evaluating the firm should clarify the legal entity that will sign the engagement and receive fees, the scope of buyer outreach, and whether the assignment covers a business sale, a real-estate component, or both.

The firm’s public process emphasizes valuation, confidential marketing, buyer screening, negotiation, and due-diligence support. Owners should also request the engagement economics and terms that are not stated on the cited business-brokerage-services page, including the success fee, retainer, minimum fee, tail period, and termination schedule.

For valuation discussions, owners may wish to ask how adjusted earnings, assets, liabilities, market positioning, and the asset, market, and income approaches will be applied to the particular business.[3][4]

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Which legal entity will sign the engagement and receive fees

The Arizona Department of Real Estate record identifies American Realty Brokers as the DBA of CDN Properties & Investments, Inc.; confirming the contracting entity is a separate diligence point.[12]
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What are the success fee, retainer, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, exclusivity, tail, and termination provisions

The cited business-brokerage-services page does not state a universal success-fee percentage, retainer amount, minimum fee, tail period, or termination schedule.[3]
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How will the asking price or valuation be determined, and which valuation approaches will be applied

The firm states that its M&A process evaluates adjusted earnings, assets, liabilities, and market positioning and uses asset, market, and income approaches.[4]

What size transactions does Strategic Business Brokers Group handle?

Official sold-listing pages identify a commercial HVAC company in Phoenix with an asking price of $2,050,000, a seven-location independent gym business in Arizona with an asking price of $2,650,000, a medical spa and salon business in Phoenix with an asking price of $475,000, and an established home inspection company in Tucson with an asking price of $225,000.

The same pages publish business-level revenue and cash-flow figures. These examples represent publicly presented listings and asking-price information; the pages cited for the HVAC and gym listings do not identify the buyer or final transaction consideration.[8][9][10][11]

Strategic Business Brokers Group publicly describes business sales, acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, valuations, and transaction-related support. Its stated brokerage process covers confidential marketing, buyer pre-screening, negotiation, and due diligence.

The firm also publicly identifies commercial real estate as a service area. Owners considering a transaction involving both a business and real estate should clarify which components the engagement will cover.[2][3]

The firm states that it works with companies of all sizes and industries rather than identifying a limited sector mandate. Its public materials position the firm around Arizona, including Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tucson, and surrounding communities.

The M&A page states that the firm identifies parties in Arizona and beyond. The sources cited for this profile therefore establish an Arizona-centered practice with some broader party-identification activity, but not a more specific geographic mandate.[5][6]

What does Strategic Business Brokers Group publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?

The cited business-brokerage-services page does not state a universal success-fee percentage, retainer amount, minimum fee, tail period, or termination schedule.

The cited sold HVAC listing does not identify the buyer or final transaction consideration. The cited sold gym listing likewise does not identify the buyer or final transaction consideration.[3][8][9]

An Arizona Department of Real Estate record lists American Realty Brokers as the DBA name of CDN Properties & Investments, Inc., an active Real Estate Branch, Corporation. The record lists Tyson B. Guess as designated broker and Brian Bond as branch manager and real-estate broker for the branch.

This record establishes the identified Arizona real-estate brokerage structure associated with the operating offices.[12]

The firm’s seller tutorial instructs prospective sellers to assemble three years of profit-and-loss statements and tax returns, along with equipment and fixture lists, lease documents, loans, equipment leases, franchise agreements where applicable, inventory information, and outside-adviser details.

Its stated brokerage process also includes valuation, confidential marketing and listing, buyer pre-screening, deal structuring and negotiation, and due-diligence support.[3][13]

Questions to ask before hiring Strategic Business Brokers Group

Which legal entity will sign the engagement and receive fees?
The Arizona Department of Real Estate record identifies American Realty Brokers as the DBA of CDN Properties & Investments, Inc.; confirming the contracting entity is a separate diligence point.[12]
What are the success fee, retainer, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, exclusivity, tail, and termination provisions?
The cited business-brokerage-services page does not state a universal success-fee percentage, retainer amount, minimum fee, tail period, or termination schedule.[3]
How will the asking price or valuation be determined, and which valuation approaches will be applied?
The firm states that its M&A process evaluates adjusted earnings, assets, liabilities, and market positioning and uses asset, market, and income approaches.[4]
What buyer categories and geographic markets will be targeted?
The firm publicly presents an Arizona-centered practice and states that its M&A process identifies parties in Arizona and beyond; the intended outreach scope should therefore be clarified for a specific assignment.[6]
How are buyer financial capacity, confidentiality, and conflicts screened?
Buyer pre-screening and confidential marketing are identified components of the firm’s stated brokerage process.[3]
If real estate is included, which licensed brokerage entity and agents will handle that component?
Commercial real estate is listed among the firm’s services, and the Arizona regulatory record identifies the American Realty Brokers branch structure and associated broker roles.[2][12]

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