The Business Partnership - Highlands, Islands and Perth

07/10/2026

🔨 PRICE REDUCED: Home & Hardware, Alness

A well-established High Street hardware business, now with a huge price reduction.

New asking price: offers around £89,000 plus stock at valuation (approx. £62,000)

✔ 14 years trading in the heart of Alness
✔ Turnover circa £385,000
✔ Loyal local customers and around 30 trade accounts
✔ Tools, ironmongery, decorating, gardening and household lines
✔ Paint mixing, key cutting and carpet cleaner hire
✔ Home Hardware Scotland member, with online shop platform available
✔ Substantial leasehold premises with external storage
✔ Owners offering a structured handover

A genuine retirement sale, and a straightforward way to own an established Highland business at a much lower entry cost.

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18/09/2026

🚨 PRICE REDUCED – NOW £75,000 🚨

Ullapool Laundry Services – a rare opportunity to acquire an established, profitable laundry business in the heart of the North West Highlands.

Located directly on the NC500 route, Ullapool Laundry Services provides an essential service to a strong and growing hospitality market, supporting holiday lets, guest houses, hotels and other local businesses throughout the region.
With an established commercial customer base, experienced staff, excellent local reputation and very limited competition, this is a business with genuine underlying strength and clear potential for further growth.

The business is already trading successfully, but there is considerable scope for an incoming owner to build on the foundations through increased marketing, further commercial accounts, expanded collection and delivery services and the development of additional laundry-related services.

💷 NOW £75,000
📍 Ullapool, Scottish Highlands
🏨 Strong hospitality customer base
🚐 Established collection & delivery network
🧺 Essential, repeat-use service
🛣️ Situated on the NC500 route
📈 Scope for further growth

A strong, established business in a unique Highland location.
Interested? Get in touch for further information and to arrange a confidential discussion.

09/09/2026

📢 UNDER OFFER – APPLECROSS INN, WESTER ROSS

After less than three days on the market and an incredible amount of interest, the Applecross Inn is now under offer — with a sale agreed above the asking price.

One of the most celebrated destination businesses on the North Coast 500 has found its next custodian. More details to follow as the sale progresses.

📩 Thinking about selling your own hospitality or leisure business? We'd love to hear from you.

04/09/2026

04/09/2026

🔥NEW TO MARKET – APPLECROSS INN, WESTER ROSS🔥

One of the North Coast 500's most iconic stops is officially on the market.

Applecross Inn has been the heart of this remote Wester Ross community for the best part of two centuries — and for the last 37 years it's been shaped into one of Scotland's most celebrated food and accommodation destinations by owner Judith Fish MBE.

Named among the Good Food Guide's 100 Best Pubs and winner of BBC Countryfile Magazine's Pub of the Year, this is a genuine trophy freehold with a loyal following and a location money can't buy — at the foot of the legendary Bealach na Bà.

✨ Highlights include:
Freehold sale — seven en-suite sea-view bedrooms
Established bar and restaurant with a national reputation
Popular seasonal food trailer, Applecross Inn-Side Out
Prime NC500 location at the foot of the Bealach na Bà
Multiple national awards under long-standing ownership

💷 Guide Price: £1,250,000

A genuine once-in-a-generation opportunity on Scotland's most talked-about touring route. 📩

For full details or to arrange a confidential discussion, get in touch directly.

02/09/2026

Somewhere on the North Coast 500, at the edge of the map, sits a business we don't get the chance to bring to market very often.

This one's a bit special. Full reveal Friday.

Get in touch for early viewing.

01/09/2026

Three retail sales in August.

J.C. Dawson Butchers in Elgin, Café Aroma in Kingussie, and Seaway Chip Shop.

Different businesses, different buyers, same process: right valuation from the start, marketed properly, kept moving.

If you're thinking about selling in the next year or two, get in touch.

25/08/2026

🚨 PRICE REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE – £48,000 🚨

🧺 HUNTLY LAUNDRETTE – ESTABLISHED LAUNDRY & DRY-CLEANING BUSINESS

A fantastic opportunity to acquire an established, fully operational laundry business in a prominent Huntly town-centre location.

The owner is motivated to secure a sale and the asking price has now been REDUCED TO JUST £48,000.

✅ Established local business with existing customer base
✅ Domestic & commercial laundry trade
✅ 11 commercial washing machines
✅ 6 commercial gas dryers
✅ Commercial dry-cleaning machine
✅ Pressing, finishing & ironing equipment
✅ Collection & delivery services
✅ Premises lease running until April 2030
✅ Current property rent only £650 per month
✅ Excellent potential to grow commercial contracts with holiday lets, B&Bs, hotels and hospitality operators

This could be particularly attractive to an existing cleaning, laundry or hospitality-service business looking to increase capacity and expand its commercial offering.

💷 NEW ASKING PRICE: £48,000

The owner is keen to move forward, so serious enquiries and early viewings are encouraged.

📩 Message me directly for further information or to arrange a viewing.

24/08/2026

🔨 NEW TO MARKET | HOME & HARDWARE, ALNESS

An excellent opportunity to acquire a long-established and highly regarded independent hardware business in a prominent High Street position in Alness.

Established for around 14 years, Home & Hardware has built an excellent local reputation and offers a broad range of hardware, DIY, decorating, household and gardening products alongside services including paint mixing, key cutting and carpet cleaner hire.

Key Features:
• Annual turnover in excess of £400,000
• Around 30 established trade accounts with scope to grow
• Member of the Home Hardware Scotland buying group, benefiting from preferential purchasing terms, marketing support and efficient deliveries
• Opportunity to introduce online sales through the Home Hardware platform
• Substantial premises extending to approximately 2,590 sq ft
• Flexible lease terms available to suit an incoming purchaser
• Fixtures & fittings, EPOS system, two key cutting machines and two external storage containers included
• Genuine retirement sale

This is a hands-on, owner-operated business and would ideally suit an individual, couple or trade purchaser looking to take over an established operation with a strong customer base and further development potential.

💷 Offers Around £130,000 + Stock at Valuation

📍 Alness, Ross-shire
🔎 Opportunity Ref: 1301SAF

For further information or to arrange a confidential discussion, please contact me directly.

📞 Simon Fraser
Business Partnership

17/08/2026

🏊 New instruction: Swimming Pool, Spa & Wellness Installation and Servicing Specialist — now on the market

Delighted to bring this one to market. A well-established, family-run business with a genuinely diversified revenue base across new build installation and recurring service & maintenance contracts.

A few headlines:

📈 Turnover c£3m
💷 EBITDA of c.£214k (FY25/26), with forecast growth well beyond that this year
🔧 Directly employed, UK-wide technical team — no subcontractor reliance
🤝 150+ active customers, no material concentration in any single client
🏆 Award-recognised installation work in the pool and wellness sector

Operating across the UK. Offered on an offers-invited basis.

Full confidential details, including the Information Memorandum, are available to registered, qualified buyers under NDA.

📩 Get in touch