677 California businesses were sold by business owners, business brokers, & real estate agents for the week of May 15, 2006 thru May 21, 2006. In Northern California Santa Clara County led business sales with a total of 62 transactions. In Southern California Los Angeles County led with 242 transactions (one of the highest records of business sales in LA County)
Sales of California businesses during this time period by County include: County: 12, Alameda County: 10, Contra Costa County: 10, Fresno County: 13, Kern County: 8, Los Angeles County: 242, Marin County: 5, Merced County: 1, Monterey County: 21, Napa County: 4, Orange County: 30, Placer County: 10, Riverside County: 20, Sacramento County: 17, San Bernardino County: 46, San Diego County: 87, San Francisco County: 12, San Joaquin County: 4, San Luis Obispo County: 12, San Mateo County: 14, Santa Barbara County: 3, Santa Clara County: 62, Santa Cruz County: 5, Solano County: 12, Sonoma County: 10, Stanislaus County: 6, Ventura County: 1.
For current annual
small business for sale sold statistics throughout all counties in California go to www.BizBen.com/stats.php where you can see business sales statistics by both county and cities within those counties.
This information correlates with the new statistics from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) about small business growth and
small business optimism factors - in April recovered most of the prior month's decline.
I am seeing a lot of growth in business sales over the last couple months with many more former corporate workers buying small businesses as well as starting them!
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