A Quick Look Back at 2025 – Chuck Hayes, President – ABA Advisors, LLC
Hi, this is Chuck Hayes with ABA Advisors.
I hope everyone had a great holiday season and New Year’s.
And as we enter 2026, I just want to take a quick look back at 2025, what we saw and share some of that information.
Overall, we saw increased activities from buyers, which is a good sign certainly for the sellers that we represent and for the and for our business in general.
With sellers we saw increased activity and we’re picking up some very solid practices all around the country in the states that we operate and we don’t really see that slowing down for 2026 buyers. Again, increased activity from buyers.
We’ve seen more listings that receive multiple offers and we received offers from offers for listings in more rural and sometimes multiple offers on those with buyers.
We’ve seen the continued presence and interest from private equity firms and private equity backed individual buyers, which the latter is really more the types of buyers we seem to be working with. But that’s increased activity overall again with our listings.
Lenders from their standpoint, we’ve got partners that we work with and rely on who are very good at what they do.
They are certainly not perfect, but they absolutely help us get more transactions done. They understand this industry and that makes it a lot easier.
And their appetite for doing loans has been very robust in 2025.
And I don’t anticipate any changes for that in 2026. So overall, healthy market in our opinion.
We see similar activity for 2026 and other than the government shutdown that we had in the fourth quarter of 2025 that sort of jammed up a lot of our deals
It’s been a great year and we are appreciative of everybody and look forward to working with you in 2026 and beyond. Thanks very much.
Chuck Hayes, President – ABA Advisors, LLC