About
Built around the buyers, not the listing.
OffSell is a confidential business-sale platform. The model is confidential buyer identification and controlled disclosure — the opposite of putting a business on the open market and waiting to see who reads it.
- Positioning
- Confidential, seller-led business sales
- Market
- Qualifying UK businesses only
- Partners
- Professional partnership enquiries welcome
What is Offsell?
Offsell is a UK platform for confidential, off-market business sales. It combines technology-supported buyer research, matching and direct outreach with experienced adviser involvement as transactions become serious.
Offsell does not publicly list businesses for sale.
The UK seller service and the US Partnerships & Licensing opportunity are separate propositions.
What we are
A different starting point.
Most routes to selling a business begin with exposure: a listing, a summary anyone can read, and a wait. That works when value comes from competitive tension across a wide field of buyers. It works badly when the business has concentrated customer relationships, staff who do not know, or competitors who would rather use the information than bid.
We start from the other end. Who would want this specific business, and why? Those acquirers are identified, approached confidentially and qualified before anything identifying is released. Information is then disclosed progressively, under terms the seller sets.
That is the whole proposition. It is a narrower service than a marketplace and a more structured one than a broker's mandate, and it is deliberately built for owners who care more about control than about exposure.
Offsell has been developed initially for the UK market, with selected international licensing opportunities being considered.
How we operate
Three principles we hold to.
We describe things accurately
We do not claim complete anonymity, because it does not exist in a real transaction. We do not describe our fees as success-fee-only, because a payment falls due at Heads of Terms. Precision is part of the service.
The seller controls disclosure
You approve the confidential description, you see and can veto the buyer list, and you decide what is released at each stage. Nothing about your business goes out on our judgement alone.
We qualify before we take a mandate
If we do not believe an off-market process will deliver a transaction for your business, we will tell you rather than take the instruction.
Related brands
Offsell and BusinessWanted.
BusinessWanted.com is a separate, independent brand. It is buyer-led: buyers publish what they are looking for so that owners can approach them. OffSell is seller-led: owners sell confidentially without going on the open market.
The two complement each other, and each links to the other where it is genuinely useful — but they are different businesses with different propositions, and neither is a sub-brand of the other.
BusinessWanted.com is one source of acquisition mandates and buyer demand that Offsell may draw on. It is not the only source of buyers, and not every BusinessWanted mandate is relevant to every seller.
Regional scope
Information on this site
Talk to us in confidence.
If you are considering a sale, the useful first step is a confidential review — a confidential conversation, at no cost, with no obligation.