Holiday let business for sale

Longer version..

Having built the Woodfarm brand over a 16-year period and reaching the ripe old age of 60, I have decided to sell as a going concern and live the rest of my life as fully as I can. 

I built the brand from nothing, and up until COVID, it was just going up year after year after year. Since then so many industries, ours included, have been impacted by global cost of living issues as well as the knock-on effects of war. Way to go Carl, start with the uplifting stuff! 

However, we know these things are cyclical, and we are performing better than many, in an industry that has seen a lot fall by the wayside. Although the figures have dipped from pre-COVID days due to the cost of living issues, I’m simply looking to exit as I have earned extremely well out of the business over the years and just want to move on to my next chapter.

We have a strong trading position, and whilst I currently handle pricing, this can be automated with dynamic pricing if you wanted to, and the CRM system we use has this option. 

I have decided to offer the Barns, Cottages, and all of the intellectual property surrounding the Woodfarm brand at less than asset value in order to try and speed up my semi-retirement. I’m doing this purely out of my personal motivation to have the freedom to travel more, and focus on the consultancy side of what I do. I simply don’t have a desire to hold out for a much higher price if it’s going to take me another few years.

Well positioned for the point at which the economy starts to climb back up again. You wouldn’t be looking at an investment if you didn’t think it was going to. 

This video isn’t meant to be a sales pitch. I’m shooting it to try and explain why I’m looking to sell and start living my life.

You may think that means nothing to you, because why should it? But it does. It’s created an opportunity for you…

Woodfarm Barns is a collection of properties trading in the Suffolk holiday market, with all the key benefits of:

• Fully equipped properties, geared to the business. Valued by Fenn Wright at £1.75 million purely for bricks and mortar in 2022.
• A fully operational business with a booking system, processes, infrastructure and forward bookings in place of £100,000.
• A repeat booking level of 34%.
• A legitimate, organically grown, trimmed down database of 20,000 people with an average click rate on weekly newsletters in excess of 40%.
• A legitimate, organically grown social media following in excess of 20,000 people with a quarter of a million post views and over 3,000 post interactions per month.
• A highly efficient website with numerous Google rankings of Number 1, and organic traffic averaging 1,000 visitors a day.
• A YouTube channel with over 850 videos and heading towards 600,000 views.
• In excess of 1,200 Five~Star reviews on Tripadvisor, Google and Facebook.
• Over 1,000 blog posts. More than anyone else in the industry.       

Further established letting opportunity available with two Dutch Barges, also in Suffolk. The business as a whole has bookings placed of £389,000 in the last 12 months, and has £100,000 in forward bookings. 

The Barns are surrounded by countryside and needless to say, with their river locations the Barges are both havens for bird spotting. 

This is what we do with the business. You can do what you want with it. I’m looking to sell it for less than the asset value because I want to retire. You’ve got all of this, so the world is your oyster.

Take a look at the Woodfarm Barns website if you haven’t already.

Barns and Cottages only £1.75m.

Barns, Cottages, and Barges £2 million. 

Call me for a chat and further information on 01449 710032 or 07810371218. Happy to answer any questions if you have a genuine interest. And money.