# Sunbelt Business Brokers

The largest business-brokerage network.

The largest business-brokerage network, with roughly 250 franchised offices and over a thousand brokers. Its site aggregates the network's listings, which the company describes as 10,000 or more at any time, mostly under $5M in revenue. Its upper-market practice, True North M&A (spun out of the Minneapolis office in 2021), takes sell-side engagements above roughly $2M EBITDA, which is where a searcher-size seller graduates out of the main-street network.

- Category: Listing Marketplaces
- Pricing model: Free
- Where it fits: Source & Screen Deals
- Website: https://www.sunbeltnetwork.com

## At a Glance

Treat it as a relationship channel rather than a website: introduce yourself to the two or three offices covering your geography and thesis, and let their brokers learn you are real.

## What It Costs

Free for buyers on listed businesses: brokers represent sellers and are paid seller-side commissions. The network described typical terms of 10% with common $15,000 minimums in July 2026 and no longer states either figure anywhere on its own site, so a seller quote has to come from the local office. Buyer-side search engagements, where offered, are paid by the buyer under separate agreement.

## Best For

Building local broker relationships at main-street size, where being a known, financeable buyer on a few Sunbelt brokers' lists surfaces deals before they circulate widely

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: The deepest main-street inventory of any brokerage network, aggregated on one searchable site
- Pro: Local offices mean local broker relationships, which is how smaller deals actually trade
- Pro: No buyer-side cost on listed businesses
- Con: Franchised offices vary widely in quality and process; the brand guarantees little about the broker you get
- Con: Brokers represent sellers, so pricing and packaging favor the other side of the table
- Con: Listing quality at main-street size is uneven, with heavy screening burden on the buyer

## What Searchers Say

A decades-old fixture of the main-street market; scale claims come from the network itself. [Searcher](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher)-community sentiment treats individual Sunbelt brokers as ranging from excellent to poor, which matches the franchise structure; the office, not the brand, is what you are working with.

## Compared With

- Which broker network should anchor your local sourcing? (https://searchspheresource.com/resources/compare/sunbelt-vs-transworld.md)

## Sources

- https://www.sunbeltnetwork.com
- https://www.sunbeltnetwork.com/locations/

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Last checked: 2026-08-21

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