Murphy Business Sales

At a Glance

Coverage almost everywhere, on terms you have to ask each office for one at a time.

Our pick for Best Open Listing Detail in 2026.

Pricing

Custom Pricing, No fee of its own appears anywhere on the corporate site. Its blog states the industry's range rather than Murphy's: 'Brokerage fees tend to run between 5 and 10 percent of the selling price of a business.' A reader on a Murphy page can easily take that for a Murphy rate, which is why it is worth saying plainly that it is not.

Best For

Buyers who want the widest possible office coverage and are willing to work office by office

Kind

Independently run offices under one name, so the broker varies by market.

Footprint

Works nationwide.

Sells

No band on any corporate page read in September 2026: the M&A page that once carried an EBITDA floor renders no body now and the brokerage arm publishes none. What its homepage listings show, from a small main-street sale to a few million, is the only measure, from offices in thirty-eight states and Canada, founded 1994.

Publishes no size band anywhere.

Seller Fee

Publishes somebody else's range. The only percentages on its own site describe the industry or other firms rather than itself, on pages that ask what selling costs, so a number there is easy to read as a disclosure it never made.

Buyer Fee

Says nothing about a buyer fee. Its buyer-facing pages say nothing either way about what a buyer pays.

Works For

Buyer list only. Invites buyers onto a list to see or be alerted to its own listings. That is access, not advocacy: the firm is still paid by the seller.

Before It Shows You Anything

Wants an account rather than an NDA. An account is the real gate rather than a signed document, and the registration form is where the qualifying questions live.

Price, sales, seller's discretionary earnings, assets and liabilities in the open on the listing page. An August read found an NDA button beneath them; the September re-read found no NDA, no link and no confidentiality language on the listing or the index, only a contact link. What remains is a buyer registration, an account the site offers and never states as required, and nothing deeper is stated anywhere on the site.

Roadmap Stages

2. Define & Test Your Thesis4. Source & Screen Deals

Pros and Cons

What Searchers Say

Office list, founding year and volume read from its own pages. The homepage banner claims offices in 38 states while the locations page is a picker of every state, district, territory and province rather than an office list, so neither count is quoted here. Its mergers and acquisitions page renders no body at all on the September 2026 re-read.

How to Approach

Murphy Business Sales is an office network rather than a single firm, and it works for the seller rather than for you, so this is how that side of the table comes in and what it is deciding about you.

The Typical Arc

1. You reach one office rather than the brand, and that office runs its own process.
2. A teaser and an NDA with the local broker who holds the listing.
3. The CIM and the seller meeting, to that office's standard rather than a house one.
4. Your offer, through that broker, whose duty runs to the seller.

What It Weighs

• ✓The same three things any listing broker weighs: funds, criteria, and speed.
• ✓Whether you are buying in that office's market, since the listings are local.
• ✓Whether to refer you to a sister office, which is an introduction rather than a handoff.

How to Prepare

• Ask which office holds the listing and who your broker actually is.
• Write the one page a broker asks for before you inquire. Buyer Profile Builder
• Set criteria specific enough for a listing to match. Buy Box Builder

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