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For UK Business Transfer Agents & Commercial Brokers

Spot the questions that stall a sale on day one, not week eight

Surface the exact questions a buyer's solicitor will ask weeks into legal enquiries—so you can put them to the seller at instruction stage, prepare clean answers before viewings start and protect your completion fee.

Whether you want to run a Pre-Marketing Seller Check when onboarding a vendor, earn a referral fee on buyer checks and Full Buyer Packs or use a Monthly Agency Partner Plan, you can order or refer in five minutes.

Order a Pre-Marketing Check See Partner Options & Rate Card

⚡ Fast turnaround: most reports back within 1 hour once started

We quote up to 24 hours to cover busy periods, but most reports are returned within 1 hour once started. Site outage follow-on guarantee: if any public register or official site is temporarily offline or slow when we run your check, we send your report straight away with everything available so your instruction or buyer is never held up. We then email a follow-on update automatically as soon as the offline register is back.

Public records & vendor disclosures compared
Day-one seller questions drafted for your negotiator
We never contact your vendor or buyer

AGENT PRE-MARKETING CHECK

Instruction Readiness Summary

Prepared for the instructing negotiator · Not sent to the vendor

● 3 QUESTIONS TO ASK VENDOR UP FRONT

Unexpired lease is 6 yrs 4 mos (vendor stated 9 yrs)ASK DAY 1
Unsatisfied bank debenture on operating companyASK DAY 1
Premises licence alcohol cut-off 22:30 (advert says 23:30)ASK DAY 1
VOA rateable value £11,250 · SBRR threshold confirmedMATCHES
Food hygiene 5/5 · No Gazette insolvency noticesCLEAN

Why it matters for your agency: Getting the vendor's answers on the lease term, charge release and licence hours before launch stops a buyer's solicitor pulling the deal apart two months after heads of terms.

View sample report format

Most reports back within 1 hour
Outage follow-on guarantee
Trade margin or buyer referral fee
Strictly confidential · Never contacts your client

Why brokers use Biz History Check

Built to help negotiators get instructions sale-ready on day one, qualify serious buyers and add a new revenue stream without extra admin.

Pose the right questions on day one

Almost every aborted sale stalls on the same issues: an undisclosed bank charge, a mismatch between stated and registered lease dates, a dissolved phoenix company at the postcode or a restrictive licence condition. We highlight those questions at instruction stage so you can put them to the seller before the brochure goes live.

Never wait on an offline register

Most reports are back in your inbox within 1 hour once started (up to 24 hours in busy periods). If a council portal or public register is temporarily down during the check, we deliver the completed report immediately with everything available, then send an automatic follow-on update as soon as the site comes back online.

Make a margin on every instruction or buyer

Include a wholesale Pre-Marketing Seller Check inside your standard Vendor Onboarding Pack or refer enquiring buyers to our Public-Record Check and Full Buyer Pack for a partner referral fee with zero cost to your agency. We keep all trade rates off our public website to protect your agency margin.

Confidential trade rates · Sent directly to verified agencies

Three ways to work with us

We keep trade pricing and commission terms off our public website to protect agency margins and vendor pack pricing. Request our Trade & Partner Rate Card below or book a Free Pilot Test Check on a live instruction.

1. Buyer Referral Partner

Zero cost to your agency · Earn commission on buyer add-ons

Partner commission / margin

Free to join · Trade rate card sent on request

Public-Record Check (£79 retail): earn a monthly partner referral fee or buy at our wholesale trade rate
Full Buyer Pack (£349 retail): earn a partner referral fee or order at wholesale trade rate when heads of terms are agreed
Full Buyer Pack includes deeper public checks (crime, Home Office, tribunals, enforcement) plus a review of the lease, accounts and contracts with questions for the buyer's solicitor & accountant
Unique partner referral link or direct trade ordering

2. Pay-As-You-Go Trade Account

For individual instructions & vendor onboarding packs

Trade pay-as-you-go

Per-instruction trade rate · No monthly commitment

Wholesale Pre-Marketing Seller Check: compares the vendor's stated lease, turnover, rates & licences against public records
Ready-to-ask Day-One Seller Questions sheet for your negotiator
Include inside your Vendor Onboarding or Marketing Pack with full pricing flexibility
Trade Full Buyer Pack rate when a buyer reaches offer or heads-of-terms stage
No monthly commitment or minimum volume

Order a Trade Check / Request Rate Card

3. Agency Partner Plan

Multi-negotiator offices listing 10+ businesses a month

Monthly partner plan

Volume bundle · Priority <1 hr queue · White-label option

Monthly Pre-Marketing Check bundle at our lowest per-instruction trade rate
Discounted trade rate on any extra checks above your monthly allowance
White-label option: your agency branding on the cover (with our standard public-record disclaimer kept on)
Priority <1 hour turnaround queue & automatic register outage follow-ons
Includes trade rate or referral fee on Full Buyer Packs

Enquire About Agency Partner Plan

Want to test the quality on a live instruction first? Select Free Pilot Test Check (1st listing for new partner agencies) in the form below or email [email protected].

What each agent service covers

Designed around the three stages of a brokerage transaction: taking on the instruction, marketing with confidence and getting heads of terms through legal enquiries.

AT INSTRUCTION STAGE · TRADE ACCOUNT OR MONTHLY PLAN

Pre-Marketing Seller Check & Vendor Pack

Run in 5 minutes when a vendor signs your terms. We cross-check what the vendor has told you against public records covering the company, the people behind it, the premises and customer reputation.

Day-one seller question list: flags discrepancies in lease length, unsatisfied charges/debentures, historic phoenix dissolutions at the postcode, VOA business rates, FSA hygiene, ACV listings, planning refusals and licence hours.
Fastest timeline: most reports returned within 1 hour once started (up to 24 hours max). Any temporarily offline register is sent on automatically as a follow-up update the moment it returns.
Vendor / Listing Pack summary: once the seller answers the day-one questions, you have clean, verified answers ready for viewings.

AT VIEWING OR HEADS OF TERMS · PARTNER REFERRAL OR WHOLESALE

Buyer Add-Ons (£79 Report & £349 Full Buyer Pack)

Give serious buyers an independent check and earn a partner referral fee (or wholesale trade margin) without adding a penny to your agency's overheads.

£79 Public-Record Check (partner referral or wholesale trade rate): ideal for buyers shortlisting or booking a second viewing who want an independent RED/AMBER/GREEN public-record summary.
£349 Full Buyer Pack (partner referral or wholesale trade rate): built for buyers at offer or heads-of-terms stage. Includes the full public report, local crime, Home Office, tribunal & enforcement checks, plus a structured review of the seller's lease, accounts and contracts highlighting the exact questions for the buyer's solicitor and accountant, with a phased deal chase tracker.

Trade Desk & Pilot Orders Open

Pre-Marketing Seller Check & Agent Order Form

For business transfer agents ordering a Pre-Marketing Check on a vendor's business before the listing goes live, ordering a Trade Buyer Pack or requesting a free pilot report. Takes about 5 minutes. * = required.

How the report works: We compare the details you give us below with what the public record shows about the business, its company history, the people behind it, its premises and customer reputation. Anything that doesn't match—or that the vendor may not have mentioned—is flagged RED, AMBER or GREEN, with plain-English questions to raise with the vendor before you market it. Most reports are back within 1 hour once started (up to 24 hours max), by email. If any official register is offline when we run the check, we send the report immediately and email a follow-on update as soon as that register is back. "Not found" never means "all clear".

0. Select service / partner option

Which service would you like to order or set up?*

1. Your agency & negotiator details

Your name*

Agency name*

Email for the report*

Phone(optional)

Your internal listing / file reference(optional)

2. The business

Trading name*

Run by*

Company name and number(if known)

Sector*

Full premises address, including street and postcode*

How long has the vendor run it?(optional)

3. Tenure & lease details

Tenure*

Landlord name (pub company, private, council)(optional)

Lease start & end dates, or years remaining(required if leasehold)

Passing rent (£ a year)(required if leasehold)

Next rent review date & break clauses(optional)

Repairing terms & any tie (e.g. beer tie)(optional)

4. Trading figures (as given by the vendor)

Turnover, last 2–3 years (latest year required)*

Weekly takings (if to be advertised)(optional)

Gross profit, last 2–3 years(optional)

Net profit or adjusted EBITDA, last 2–3 years(optional)

VAT registered?(optional)

Staff numbers (full-time / part-time)(optional)

5. Licences

Premises licence held?*

Licensing hours & any conditions you know of(optional)

6. Price and sale type

Proposed asking price*

Sale structure*

7. Vendor's declaration & consent

Any known issues the vendor has told you about (disputes, arrears, licence reviews, planning, past company problems)(optional)

The vendor has agreed to this check being run (or I am requesting a partner account / anonymised sample report).* I understand this report is an information summary from public records and provided documents, not legal, financial, tax or valuation advice. I also understand that Biz History Check will never contact the vendor, landlord or council.*

8. Optional document uploads (Accounts, Lease or Brochure)

Latest accounts (PDF)(optional)

Lease or draft sales particulars (PDF)(optional)

Note: uploads aren't required for a Pre-Marketing Seller Check, though they let us compare the vendor's figures more closely. For a Trade Full Buyer Pack, you can attach the lease, accounts and contracts now or email them to [email protected].

Ready to send to our Trade Desk: We have prepared your order summary below and opened a pre-filled email to [email protected]. If your email client didn't open automatically, click the link or copy the summary below. Most reports are returned within 1 hour once started.

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Questions from business transfer agents

Will a Pre-Marketing Check scare off our vendor or buyers?

No—the Pre-Marketing Check goes strictly to you (the instructing negotiator), not to buyers. Its job is to surface the questions a buyer's solicitor will inevitably find six weeks after heads of terms, so you can ask the vendor on day one and get the explanation or paperwork ready before viewings start.

How fast is the turnaround, and what if a council register is down?

Most reports are back within 1 hour once started (with up to 24 hours quoted to cover busy periods). If a local council licensing portal or another official site has a temporary outage when we run your check, we never hold your report back: we send the completed report immediately with everything available and automatically send a follow-on update as soon as that register is back online.

How do your trade rates and buyer referral commissions work?

We keep our wholesale trade rates and referral commission percentages off our public website so vendors and buyers cannot see your agency's margin. You can either share your agency referral link with enquiring buyers for a monthly commission payout or order at our wholesale trade rate and bill the check inside your own vendor or buyer pack. We send our Broker Trade Rate Card as soon as you get in touch.

Do you ever contact the vendor, the buyer, staff or the landlord?

Never. All research is carried out discreetly from public records and the figures or documents you provide. Any questions for the vendor or solicitor are drafted for your team to ask.

Are you insured and registered for data protection?

Yes. Biz History Check is a trading name of Smudgestone Ltd (company number 12756947). We hold Professional Indemnity and Cyber & Data insurance with Hiscox and are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO registration ZC282460). Copies of our insurance certificates are available on request for your agency supplier file.