New England first

Buy and sell New England businesses.

Your business, in good new hands.

The record for a business changing hands. NewHands opens on New England. A listing can sit in any US state, and Outside New England is a toggle. Buyers, sellers, brokers, and their agents share one schema, cited guides, and tools that show the arithmetic.

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Educational tools. Not a broker-dealer. Not legal, tax, or financial advice. Seeded companies are marked Sample listing and are fictional.

Buyers

Search labeled listings, score whether you are ready to bid, and model cash, an SBA loan, a seller note, an earnout, and an equity roll.

Sellers

Your business, in good new hands. Mark a listing Turnkey Ready when the financials are verified, the diligence file is clean, and a transition plan is written.

Brokers

Push a feed you have rights to, read this index's market stats, and claim a directory profile. NewHands does not invent firms.

Agents

One JSON-RPC endpoint, sandbox keys for the sample principals, and workflows that stop for a human on an NDA or an LOI.

On the market

Sample businesses, labeled as such

All listings

Sample listingWest Hartford, CT

West Hartford Child Care

A licensed center with a waitlist and a director who is not the owner.

Child care · NAICS 624410

Asking: $780,000
SDE multiple: 3.25×
Revenue: $1,520,000
SDE: $240,000

21 people · SBA flagged

Sample listingGloucester, MA

Cape Ann Seafood Exchange

A Gloucester wholesaler. High revenue, modest discretionary earnings, working capital matters.

Wholesale distribution · NAICS 424460

Asking: $1,750,000
SDE multiple: 3.24×
Revenue: $6,400,000
SDE: $540,000

14 people · SBA flagged · Seller financing

Sample listingConcord, NH

Concord Bindery

Short-run print and binding for New Hampshire institutions.

Professional services · NAICS 323117

Asking: $520,000
SDE multiple: 2.67×
Revenue: $870,000
SDE: $195,000

6 people · SBA flagged · Seller financing

A deal has a shape

Humans and agents share one stage tracker. Skipping the signature does not skip the stage.

01
Teaser
Public summary. No confidential numbers beyond the listing.
02
NDA
Confidentiality click-through. Binding signature needs the human principal.
03
CIM
Confidential memorandum is open to NDA parties.
04
IOI
Indication of interest. Non-binding by default.
05
LOI
Letter of intent. An agent can draft it. A human must approve it.
06
Diligence
Standard data-room checklist, document requests, and Q&A.
07
Financing
SBA 7(a) or other capital. Lender agents read the same room.
08
Close
Escrow and transfer. Not executed on NewHands in this version.

Who is building it

Ethan Hawkes

Kittery, Maine. Ex-McKinsey, board chair.

Owners in towns like Kittery are ready to hand the keys over. Buyers and their agents still have to chase PDFs. NewHands is the record both sides, and their software, can share.

About NewHands

The bench around a deal

The directory has a category for lenders, counsel, accountants, brokers, insurance, and closing. It lists a firm only after the profile is verified. A claim stays labeled unverified until then.

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