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Granton Storage Solutions Ltd
Based on your last full-year EBITDA of about £1.2m, at 4.5–5.8× — the range buyers currently pay for well-run self-storage businesses of your size in the South East.
Buyers are already noticing businesses like yours.
- Your sector is consolidating. Several self-storage operators in your region have been acquired in the last twelve months, and active buyers are searching for the next.
- Your profile matches what acquirers search for. Owner-led, healthy margins, long-tenured team, clean filing history — buyers build lists that look exactly like this.
- Your balance sheet reads as ready. Charges satisfied, filings on time; the tidying that usually precedes a sale is already visible.
- You have optionality. You are not being forced to sell — which is precisely why the terms available to you now are attractive.
Your business, next to three similar ones.
| Business | Revenue | EBITDA margin | Digital presence | Reviews | Est. multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You | £3–5m | 28% | 41 | 3.4 | 4.5–5.8× |
| A regional operator, South East | £3–5m | 14% | 72 | 4.3 | 4.3–4.9× |
| A consolidated operator, Midlands | £5–8m | 17% | 78 | 4.1 | 5.1–5.7× |
| An independent, North West | £2–3m | 12% | 61 | 3.9 | 3.9–4.5× |
You outperform comparable businesses on reputation and margin; your digital presence is the gap between your price and theirs.
Green where you are ahead, amber where a peer is ahead. Comparables are anonymised and indicative.
Each of these is fixable — and each moves the price.
Buyers discount businesses that rely on you personally. A capable second-in-command, with real authority and a documented handover plan, reassures buyers that the business runs without you.
Indicative uplift: Roughly half a turn on the multiple — around £588k on your sale price.
If your top handful of customers make up most of revenue, buyers will price in the risk. Broadening the book — even modestly — over the next 12 months reduces that discount.
Indicative uplift: Typically 0.3–0.5 turns recovered as concentration falls below 25%.
Your website reads as a brochure rather than a sales channel. Online quoting, booking and reviews signal a modern, scalable operation — and lift the growth story a buyer underwrites.
Indicative uplift: Adds credibility to a growth case worth £150k–£250k on price.
When operations live in people's heads, buyers see transition risk. A concise operations manual, standard workflows and a simple management pack transform how the business shows in diligence.
Indicative uplift: Removes a common 0.25–0.5 turn diligence discount.
These improvements add an estimated £1.3m to your sale price.
Unit-level demand pricing driven by occupancy and season.
Smart locks, 24/7 access, reduced staffing overhead.
Frictionless self-serve booking with card-on-file.
Site-level occupancy dashboards driving revenue actions.
Delivered over 12–18 months, without changing what your business does.
Consolidation activity in self-storage has been steady through the last twelve months, with well-funded buyers still active in the South East. The current tax environment for business owners exiting a company is broadly stable, though rates and reliefs are always subject to change. There is no urgency here — the point is simply that today is a reasonable window to prepare, so that when you choose to move, the business is ready and the terms available to you are the best they can be.
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