The pitch: 20 Bay Area listings that appear to have been posted within the last week, plus a little context so this isn’t just a scrolling exercise.
This batch is basically: “things you can run,” “things you can staff,” and “things you can’t easily recreate.”
On the low end, you’ve got turnkey-ish asset sales and small owner-operator plays. On the high end, you’ve got regulated services (home care), professional practices (CPA), and “this is really a software platform” bets.
Food and beverage
Turnkey pho restaurant (Oakland) — asking $55,000
Restaurant + boba shop (Millbrae) — asking $248,000
Absentee-run mochi donuts + dessert shop (Daly City, Serramonte) — asking $200,000
Established cafe: açaí bowls/smoothies/wraps (Mountain View) — asking $199,000
Exceptional sushi restaurant (San Francisco) — asset sale — asking $59,000 (asset sale)
Sushi + Japanese restaurant (San Francisco) — SBA-loan angle — asking $1,500,000; cash flow/SDE $593,610
Local services you can operationalize
Turnkey home staging business (Petaluma; Sonoma County) — asking $300,000; cash flow/SDE $93,667
Premier Silicon Valley electrician business (Santa Clara) — asking $74,000; cash flow/SDE $64,695
Personal home care for older and disabled adults (Sonoma County) — asking $925,000; cash flow/SDE $230,000
Simple coin laundry on major street (Oakland) — asking $160,000; cash flow/SDE $38,294
Long-established barbershop (Santa Rosa) — asking $28,000
Retail and “specialty real estate without buying real estate”
Temescal produce and grocery market (Oakland) — asset sale — asking $160,000 (asset sale)
Flower shop, 25+ years (Palo Alto) — asking $160,000
Turnkey airsoft store with indoor range (Eastridge Mall, San Jose) — asking $29,999
Beauty salon (Walnut Creek) — equipment + clients, asset sale — asking $16,000 (asset sale)
Professional services (where you’re buying relationships)
San Mateo CPA practice (San Mateo County) — asking $375,000; cash flow/SDE $215,000
Virtual SF Bay Area CPA practice (San Francisco) — asking $1,000,000; cash flow/SDE $459,000
Online/software and “the business is the system”
Owner-absentee e-commerce brand with 200K+ audience (Alameda County) — asking $94,897; cash flow/SDE $68,951
GovTech/HealthTech compliance + emergency platform (Napa) — asset sale — asking $5,000,000 (asset sale)
Specialty real estate without buying real estate
Union Square turnkey dental office (San Francisco) — asset sale — asking $970,000 (asset sale)
Deal math of the week
Turnkey home staging business (Petaluma): $300,000 asking on $93,667 cash flow. That’s about a 3.2x multiple (and a roughly 3.2-year pre-debt payback).
What that multiple is really saying: the seller is claiming you’re not just buying furniture and décor inventory; you’re buying a repeatable referral engine (agents, builders, property managers), a scheduling system, and a crew workflow that doesn’t live in one person’s head.
Three diligence questions I’d ask before getting excited
How concentrated are referrals (top five agents or designers as a percent of revenue)?
What’s truly owned vs. leased (inventory list, replacement cost, condition)?
What’s the labor model (W-2 vs. contractor, and who actually does installs on the hard days)?
One useful lens for this week’s mix
A lot of these listings are quietly “lease deals.” Restaurants, retail, even some service businesses: the lease terms (assignment, options, rent steps, landlord consent) can be more determinative than the equipment list. That’s especially true for anything being sold as an asset sale, where the actual continuity you’re buying is the ability to keep operating in that specific spot.
Five broker questions you can copy-paste this week
What is the trailing 12-month revenue, SDE/cash flow, and what exactly is included in that number?
What are the top three reasons the business wins today (not “great location,” the real ones)?
What breaks if the manager/key employee leaves the day after close?
What contracts/permits/licenses must be transferred, and what’s the timeline risk?
What does the lease look like (base rent, NNN, remaining term, options, assignment clause)?