New England Business Brokers Association
At a Glance
One broker as a door onto a whole region's listings, at a price the site does not state.
- Pricing
- Free, Free to buyers: the member directory is public. The prices below are what a MEMBER pays, across four tiers: $299 a year for a broker company member, $100 for each additional person at that company, $350 for an affiliate company, and $200 for each additional affiliate.
- Best For
- Buyers in New England who would rather work one broker than contact a dozen offices
- Kind
- Not a brokerage at all: a membership body with a directory you search yourself.
- Footprint
- It publishes a region rather than a state list, so ask on the first call whether it has members where you are buying.
- Seller Fee
- Charges no seller fee. It represents no seller, so there is no sell-side fee to publish.
- Buyer Fee
- Says nothing about a buyer fee. Its buyer-facing pages say nothing either way about what a buyer pays.
- Works For
- Not a brokerage. A trade body rather than a firm that lists businesses, so there is nobody here to hire on either side.
- Before It Shows You Anything
- Nothing to gate: it lists members, not businesses. A membership body rather than a brokerage. It has no listings to withhold, and its directory is open.
- Roadmap Stages
- 2. Define & Test Your Thesis4. Source & Screen Deals
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Its NEBBA-Plus program lets one member broker show a buyer every member office's listings, which nothing else here offers
- Public directory listing each member's company, location and contact details
- Publishes a four-tier dues table, including the cheaper additional-seat rates
- Covers the Northeast outside the states this shelf's firms already name
Cons
- Names no states, so New England has to be read as the region rather than quoted as a list
- Publishes no founding year and no member count outside the directory itself
- The listings host its home page links to answered 403 on the last read, so the member directory is the reachable half and the listings are not
What Searchers Say
The NEBBA-Plus description, dues and directory behavior read from its own pages; the NEBBA-Plus page now lists eleven participating offices in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, and the member directory is a script widget an automated reader cannot open. No fee is published for NEBBA-Plus, which is the first thing to ask about it.
How to Approach
New England Business Brokers Association is a trade association rather than a brokerage, 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
- You search the member directory yourself, by market and by credential.
- You contact firms directly, because the body places nobody with anybody.
- Everything after that is the individual firm's process, not the association's.
What the Directory Tells You
- Membership and credential rather than results: it lists brokers who joined and certified.
- Nothing about you at all, because it represents no seller and screens no buyer.
- Nothing about a fee, because the fee is the member firm's and never the body's.
How to Prepare
- Filter to your market first, then read each firm the way you would read any other.
- Write the profile once and reuse it with every firm you contact. Buyer Profile Builder