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Insights for fire safety business owners: guides and articles

Guides to download and articles to read, on valuing, preparing, selling and buying a fire safety business.

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If you are selling

Where to begin, in this order.

  1. The 90-day testCan your fire safety business run without you?Guide to download, 14 pages
  2. Why a fire safety business price can change after yesPut the evidence beside the offerGuide to download, 13 pages
  3. The 2026 Sellers GuideWhat your business could sell for, who is buying now, and what to do next.Guide to download, 27 pages

If you are buying

What to read before you agree a price.

  1. Buying a fire safety business in 2027The checks before you agree a priceGuide to download, 12 pages
  2. Reading a fire safety business listingAsk for the document behind each lineGuide to download, 13 pages
  3. Register as a buyerTell us what you are looking for and hear about businesses that fit.Free to register

Guides to download

Seven 2027 guides, and our 2026 Sellers Guide. Each 2027 guide comes with a tool you can use on your own business, or on one you are thinking of buying.

  • Buying a fire safety business in 2027

    Check service scope, certificates, people, maintenance terms and unfinished work before agreeing a fire safety business price.

    For buyers 12 pages Includes the buyer's fire safety evidence scorecard Updated Oct 2026

    Get the guide

  • The 90-day test

    Test which fire safety tasks still depend on you, with a practical handover plan and a fillable owner-dependency scorecard.

    For sellers 14 pages Includes the owner-dependency scorecard Updated Oct 2026

    Get the guide

  • Normalising fire safety profit

    Trace each fire safety profit adjustment to its records, continuing costs and replacement work with a fillable add-back schedule.

    For sellers 12 pages Includes the fire safety add-back schedule Updated Oct 2026

    Get the guide

  • Why a fire safety business price can change after yes

    Check fire safety service scope, unfinished work, invoices and customer terms before discussing an issue behind the offer.

    For sellers 13 pages Includes the early disclosure worksheet Updated Oct 2026

    Get the guide

  • Cash, service visits and installation work at completion

    Reconcile fire safety debtors, installation deposits and service visits owed before discussing a working-capital target.

    For sellers and buyers 12 pages Includes the working capital and service-obligation estimator Updated Oct 2026

    Get the guide

  • Proving fire safety competence in 2027

    Join fire safety service scope, competent people and job records in a practical evidence map for a business sale or acquisition.

    For sellers and buyers 12 pages Includes the competence and certification continuity worksheet Updated Oct 2026

    Get the guide

  • Reading a fire safety business listing

    Turn a fire safety listing's maintenance, certification, team and profit claims into clear document requests.

    For buyers 13 pages Includes the listing evidence worksheet Updated Oct 2026

    Get the guide

Also available: our 2026 guide for sellers

Browse by topic

Every article and guide sits under one topic, newest first.

Valuation and price

What a buyer pays for, and how the number is reached.

15 articles and 1 guide

Market and policy

Consolidation, the rules since Grenfell and who is active in the market.

2 articles

Buyers and the sale process

Who buys, what they check and how a sale runs.

15 articles and 2 guides

Compliance and accreditation

BAFE, FIA and BS 5839, and what each is worth at a sale.

4 articles and 1 guide

Preparing to sell

The work that makes a business easier to sell, in the order to do it.

14 articles and 3 guides

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