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 works where you are buying.
- Seller Fee
- Charges no seller fee. It represents no seller, so there is no sell-side fee to publish.
- 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 directory sits on a third-party host behind a redirect, which is a link worth re-checking
What Searchers Say
The NEBBA-Plus description, dues and directory behaviour read from its own pages. 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