Texas Association of Business Brokers
At a Glance
The best broker directory in Texas, and the clearest published account of what association membership costs.
- Pricing
- Free, Free to buyers: the member directory is public and searchable with no account. The prices below are what a MEMBER pays, published in full: $525 a year plus a $100 administrative fee at the broker company level, $375 plus $100 for an associate, and $250 plus $100 for an affiliate.
- Best For
- Buyers in Texas who want to find brokers by market and credential rather than by whoever ranks first
- Kind
- Not a brokerage at all: a membership body with a directory you search yourself.
- Footprint
- Names Texas. It names those states and works others too, so a state it does not name is worth asking about rather than ruling out.
- 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
- The most usable member directory of any association here, filterable by city, radius, certification and profession
- Publishes its dues in full, so a reader can see exactly what a member bought
- Runs its own certification program with a published standard
- Free, with the instruction to see every member printed on the search page
Cons
- Membership is dues plus a code of ethics, which is a bar rather than a vetting, and the site does not claim otherwise
- It calls itself the oldest association of its kind and publishes no founding year to check that against
- Publishes no member count
What Searchers Say
Directory behaviour, filters, dues and the oldest-association claim read from its own pages. The directory's own state filter offers every US state and Canadian province, so members are not confined to Texas even though the body is.
How to Approach
Texas Association of Business Brokers 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