Buying and selling businesses on BizBuy

BizBuy is a marketplace for buying and selling businesses, live in the UAE and expanding across the GCC. It is a neutral platform — not a broker. Sellers list their company with structured financial and operational data; verified buyers browse, filter, and deal with sellers directly.

Yes — 3.5% of the sale price, paid by the seller only when a sale actually completes. There is no minimum fee and no percentage floor: 3.5% of a small deal is a small fee. Buyers pay nothing. Listing, browsing, messaging and negotiating are all free, so BizBuy only earns if you sell. Featured placement and advisory services are separate and optional. The full terms are in §9 of the Terms of Service.

Anyone can register as a buyer or a seller. Any registered buyer can message a seller directly. To submit an offer or unlock financial documents, a buyer must verify their identity once (KYC). Sellers verify their identity and can attach audited financials and due-diligence documents to build buyer trust.

Sellers complete identity verification (KYC). Listings can carry an "audited financials" flag and a due-diligence document set (trade licence, P&L, balance sheet, bank statements, corporate tax). Each listing also shows a completeness signal so buyers know how much has been provided.

Open a listing and use "Message the Owner" to start a direct conversation. On most listings you first confirm your email, verify your identity (KYC) and sign the platform NDA; the seller sets the level. "Draft a Non-Binding Offer (NBO)" requires a verified buyer account. You deal with the owner directly — there is no broker in between, and buyers pay no fee. BizBuy is paid 3.5% by the seller if a sale completes.

An NBO is a structured, non-binding expression of intent to buy — it captures the offered price, payment structure, valuation method, and conditions. It auto-fills the seller’s reported profit (PAT) from the listing so a buyer can produce a professional NBO letter in minutes. It is the platform’s primary path from interest to a deal.

Every listing exposes its key numbers as structured fields rather than free text: asking price, annual revenue, net profit (PAT), EBITDA, sector and subsector, location, year established, employee count, ownership/property status, and acquisition type. Listing pages also embed schema.org Product structured data (JSON-LD) so machines can read the same numbers.

Yes — BizBuy is built to be usable by AI agents, not only humans. Two paths are supported: (1) an agent or its owner can contact us to have a business sourced and bought on their behalf; and (2) an agent acting under delegated authority from its owner can evaluate listings and progress a purchase with minimal human steps. See the "For AI agents" page for how to read listings and engage.

Today, listings are reachable at predictable URLs (the marketplace at /listings, sector landing pages at /listings/<sector>, and each listing at /listings/<sector>/<slug-id>), with schema.org JSON-LD on every listing, an XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml, and an llms.txt at /llms.txt describing the site. A documented programmatic API with machine authentication for agents is in progress — agent owners can contact us to be included early.

Sellers can provide trade licence, lease agreement, organisation chart, per-year financials, financial summary, P&L, balance sheet, bank statements, and corporate tax records. Access to sensitive documents can be gated so that only identity-verified buyers (and, where the seller requires it, buyers who have shown proof of funds) can view them.

BizBuy is live in the United Arab Emirates and expanding across the GCC — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman — with country-specific subdomains planned.

Listing is free. Sellers can optionally pay for featured placement to increase visibility. Final pricing is still being confirmed.