For business owners, an important question that often goes unanswered is what is my business worth? Outside of home ownership, business ownership is typically the single most valuable asset that a person will own. Although there are ways to estimate your home value (your friendly neighborhood real estate broker, online services such as Zillow!, local property appraiser), how do you track the value of your business?

Business brokerage is an overlooked field in relation to traditional real estate. There is plenty of education and information available on traditional real estate, investment properties, approaches to property valuation, and general real estate market guidance.   On the other hand, many commercial real estate brokerages don't  work in the field or publish information relative to business brokerage.  At Swann Real Estate, we want to provide this information to you.  Let's start with three major factors that influence what your business is worth...

The south side of DeLand is adding another grocery option to its lineup and not a single artificial preservative will be found. Earth Fare, a grocery chain focused on health, is renovating the space in the West Volusia Regional Shopping Center left vacant by Winn-Dixie last year. Across Orange Camp Road from Publix at County Club Corners, Earth Fare will become a second grocery store option for south DeLand. ​

The 2018 Stetson baseball season went down in Hatters history for many reasons and will fondly be remembered for years to come. The team went on to the Super Regional tournament against the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC where Stetson's cinderella season came to an end, but it lit a spark in a town that is hungry to see their hometown university be national competitors. The 2019 season brings an eagerness for the Hatters to pick up where they left off, but it won’t be easy.