Gulf Coast · Texas
Friendswood business brokers and M&A advisors
Friendswood owners who want to sell a well-run company quietly can work with MDR & Associates, a Texas M&A advisor that represents sellers only. The city started in 1895 as a Quaker colony, the only permanent town in Texas that began that way, and today straddles the Galveston and Harris county line; our advisors come to you there.
From Magnolia figs to subdivisions
Through the 1940s Friendswood was a farming community of fewer than 500 people whose economy leaned on growing and preserving Magnolia figs. After 1950, Houstonians discovered the country setting, farmland was turned into home sites, and the city incorporated in 1960. By 2020 it was home to 41,213 people. Clear Creek runs through town and even marks the line between two school districts.
A suburb built on homeowners breeds a particular kind of company: the heating and air firm with hundreds of maintenance agreements, the plumber with a fleet of trucks, the lawn and landscape crew that visits the same streets every week. Buyers pay well for that kind of repeat revenue because they can see it and predict it. We have sold Texas home services companies such as Elite Landscape and Alliance Mechanical Services, and our home services page explains what buyers in that sector check first.
Friendswood at a glance
- CountyGalveston and Harris counties
- Metro areaGreater Houston
- Companies we sell$3M–$100M
- Typical transaction3–9 months
- Fee if we do not closeNone
What a Friendswood owner should settle before going to market
Buyers of service companies test three things: whether customers renew without you, whether your technicians and crew leaders will stay, and whether the books tie out to the tax returns. Clean answers to those questions are worth more than a polished pitch. We review three years of financials, recast them to show true earnings, and hand you a free low-to-high opinion of value before you sign anything.
From there, our ten-step process moves from the engagement letter and HD marketing video through multiple letters of intent to closing and funds wired, usually within three to nine months. A principal of the firm sits in every negotiation. If your likeliest buyer is somewhere in the Houston market, we reach that buyer through our own database of qualified acquirers before any blind ad runs.
What we sell in and around Friendswood
Industry decides the buyer, the multiple and the diligence. These are the four sectors we work in most.
Manufacturing
Equipment, real estate, backlog and customer concentration decide what a manufacturer is worth.
How buyers value itHome Services
Plumbing, HVAC, roofing, landscaping and other home service companies — where repeat customers, crews and technicians decide the price.
How buyers value itDistribution & Wholesale
Inventory, working capital and supplier agreements decide what a distributor is worth.
How buyers value itBusiness Services
Recurring revenue and owner dependence separate a two-times business from a six-times business.
How buyers value itStraight answers
Questions Friendswood owners ask before they sell
Answered in full by the advisors who run the sales. Every Houston answer.
The process
How a Friendswood sale runs
Ten steps in four stages, typically three to nine months. Click any step to see it in full.
- Prepare
- Go to market
- Negotiate
- Close
We also work with owners near Friendswood
Questions owners in Friendswood ask
Is a Friendswood home services company with maintenance agreements worth more to a buyer?
Usually, yes. Signed maintenance agreements show revenue that comes back without a new sale each season, and buyers pay more for earnings they can predict. We count those agreements, measure how many renew each year and show the results in your marketing package so the value is visible, not just claimed.
My customers are my neighbors in Friendswood. How do I keep a sale private?
Buyers begin with a profile that carries no company name or address. Only those who sign a confidentiality agreement and document their ability to pay learn who you are. Meetings can take place away from your shop, and customers need not hear anything until you and the buyer agree on how to tell them.
Talk to an advisor about your Friendswood company
Four fields, a reply the same business day, and nothing shared with anyone. If you would rather talk, call (855) 637-2776.