Schafer: It's a hot time to sell a business | StarTribune.com

"For business owners thinking about someday selling their companies, Monday morning might be the time to start looking for a buyer.

It’s a seller’s market, and prices are either back to the levels of the hot markets before the Great Recession or — and here is the news — they are even higher.

It’s the private, far less visible side of what’s been happening in the public market, as most of us keep watching the Dow Jones industrial average surge to new highs.

Hunt Greene, co-founder and managing director of Minneapolis-based investment banking firm Greene Holcomb Fisher, is among those who called valuations “as high we have ever seen them.” It’s been a gradual move up for the past two years, he said, but it’s really a vastly stronger market now than it was even as recently as the middle of last year."

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