The Shumacher Group
The Shumacher Group focuses on restaurant, retail, hospitality, and related commercial real estate brokerage. Its public materials describe work centered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, and the Southeast, with potential nationwide real estate assistance through its Retail Brokers Network affiliation.
What stands out about The Shumacher Group
The Shumacher Group publicly presents a brokerage model covering restaurant and retail business sales, site selection, leasing, evaluations, and related commercial real estate services. Its listings and closed-deals archive show varied operating-business, lease, land, and real-estate-included opportunities, while the current listings page does not establish universal transaction-size or seller-eligibility thresholds.[1][2][3][4][5]
What does The Shumacher Group do?
The Shumacher Group, Inc. is an Atlanta-based restaurant and retail real estate company founded in 1987. The firm publicly describes a focus on restaurants, retail, hospitality, and related commercial real estate, combining business brokerage with restaurant real estate services.[1]
The firm states that it provides site selection for regional and national restaurant and retail chains; sales of existing restaurants and retail businesses; surplus-property and selected sublease listings; business evaluations; lease renegotiation; expert-witness testimony; and consulting.[2]
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.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring The Shumacher Group?
For an owner evaluating the firm, the public materials establish a sector focus spanning restaurants, retail, hospitality, and related commercial real estate, together with business sales, evaluations, leasing, site selection, and lease-related services. The listings and closed-deals pages show both operating-business and real-estate-included opportunities, while the FAQ describes a non-exclusive, handshake-based approach for most tenant-representation clients.
An owner should confirm the proposed valuation method, representation structure and term, commission and expense provisions, confidentiality procedures, buyer qualification process, treatment of operating-business and real-estate value, and experience with the owner’s specific business type and scale.[1][2][3][4][5]
What valuation method will be used for the operating business, leasehold improvements, equipment, and any included real estate
Will the engagement be exclusive, non-exclusive, or handshake-based, and for what term
What commission, retainer, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, and tail provisions apply
What size transactions does The Shumacher Group handle?
The firm’s closed-deals page presents representative transactions including Baraonda Sandy Springs, Republic Social House, Chicken on Fire, Boca, Alma Cocina, LURE, Rush Bowl, Gwinnett County Vending Company, Chefs Connect Atlanta Commissary with real estate, Hog Heaven with real estate, and Southern Roots with real estate.
The firm states that it has successfully negotiated several thousand transactions since its 1987 founding.[1][3]
The public listings page shows operating restaurants and bars, retail and salon opportunities, land, subleases, and transactions that include real estate. Individual listings disclose varying information on prices, rents, sales, profits, lease terms, and financing terms.[4]
The firm’s public focus is restaurant, retail, hospitality, and related commercial real estate. Its transaction examples also include food service, bars, franchises, salons, vending, and other retail-oriented businesses.[1][3]
What does The Shumacher Group publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The current listings page does not state a universal minimum or maximum transaction size or a standardized seller eligibility threshold; it presents individually described opportunities with varying disclosed terms.
The FAQ page does not publish a universal commission percentage, minimum fee, tail period, or termination schedule. The official closed-deals page identifies representative transaction names but does not provide a transaction value for each listed deal.[3][4][5]
The official team page identifies Steven Josovitz as President & Broker and Qualifying Broker. It identifies Irving Jacobson as Vice President–Associate Broker and lists additional agents and associate brokers serving leasing, site-selection, and brokerage functions.
The official team page does not publish regulator-issued license numbers or an organization-level regulatory record.[1]
Prospective parties seeking more information about current listings are required to complete a confidentiality agreement or NDA process through the listings page. The FAQ states that most tenant-representation clients work with the firm on a handshake basis rather than under an exclusive agreement.
The FAQ also states that fees are generally split with the listing agent and that the commission is generally part of the transaction cost paid by the landlord or transaction parties as applicable.[4][5]
Questions to ask before hiring The Shumacher Group
What valuation method will be used for the operating business, leasehold improvements, equipment, and any included real estate?
Will the engagement be exclusive, non-exclusive, or handshake-based, and for what term?
What commission, retainer, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, and tail provisions apply?
How will confidentiality be protected before buyer disclosure?
Which recent comparable transactions match the business's revenue, profitability, lease position, and geography?
How are buyers qualified and financed?
If real estate is included, will the operating business and property be marketed together or separately?
Sources & research notes
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- Services / capabilities
- Transaction / portfolio evidence
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