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By Brad Carter, MAI, CRE, CCIM, Greystone Valuation Services In one dealership appraisal I worked on, the real estate was under contract at a given price and the business was being sold at a... Read more
By Don E Ray, Portfolio Reinsurance Years ago (more than I want to recall) I was in a tax class lead by Samuel Dyckman of The City University of New York. Don’t stop reading. Th... Read more
By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher A disturbance was felt in the dealership buy sell force last week. It was caused by the news that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has a deal to buy V... Read more
By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet” is the phrase that can be applied to the automotive dealership buy sell world lately. Lithia’s bid to buy DCH Group seemed l... Read more
By Ken Thrasher, Chairman, Compli According to a recent survey of private auto dealers conducted by MD Johnson Inc., dealers sell for three main reasons: 45% are struggling with succe... Read more
By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher When Michael Morais, president of Open Road Group, decided to buy an unprofitable Cadillac dealership in New Jersey, objectively that might seem a bad bu... Read more
By Erin K. Tenner, attorney The buy/sell business has been hot for well over a year now. The “good deals” are harder to come by than they were just a year ago. But what really makes a deal g... Read more
Editor and publisher Alysha Web has decades of experience covering the automotive industry in both the U.S. and China. Previously she was the China bureau Chief for Automotive News and continues to be a contributing writer to Wards Auto. Click here for contact information.