Marina brokerage
Marinas for sale.
We represent owners selling marinas, and we bring the buyers. Most of it happens quietly — a marina owner will not put a sign on the gate while their dockmaster and 200 tenants are still finding out. So the market lives behind a screen, and we decide who gets through it.
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On the market
What we're selling right now.
Anonymized until you're cleared — region, size, and structure, with the name and the numbers behind the screen.
Nothing released publicly right now.
Most of what we sell trades quietly — an owner will not put a sign on the gate while their staff and tenants are still finding out. Registered buyers get matching opportunities by email before anything appears here.
Register for accessWhy this isn’t a normal transaction
You’re not selling a property. You’re selling several businesses and a permission to occupy water you don’t own.
Slip rental, dry stack, a rental fleet, fuel, a service yard, often a restaurant — each with its own licenses, insurance, and tax treatment. Underneath all of it sits the part most people never think about until diligence: the marina operates on a permit, a lease, or a concession from an agency, and that permission does not automatically come with the deed.
TVA states it plainly — a Section 26a permit doesn’t transfer on sale, the new owner has to apply, and only facilities built exactly as permitted qualify. Corps lakes run on concession leases with terms and expirations. State submerged-land leases can price off your revenue and set your term by how you rent your slips. City and port-authority leases need consent that is as political as it is legal.
Add fuel systems, sediment, stormwater, a fire and electrical code that reaches existing docks, and a liquor license that doesn’t travel with the real estate — and you have a transaction that a good business broker or a good commercial agent is simply not equipped to underwrite. Not because they’re bad at their jobs. Because this isn’t their job.
Eight ways a marina deal dies
- The dock isn't built the way it was permitted.
- The lease is shorter than the buyer's loan.
- The concession requires consent nobody asked for.
- The fuel system has no spill plan and no tank records.
- The electrical system predates the current standard.
- The rate increase in the model needs agency approval.
- The “grandfathered” slip count isn't on the permit.
- Nobody sampled the sediment under a 40-year fuel dock.
Every one of these is findable before marketing. Found afterward, each one is a discount. What we clear first.
Why there’s a gate
A leaked sale process costs an owner real money.
Word that a marina is for sale reaches the dockmaster, then the service techs, then the tenants who are deciding whether to renew. Staff start looking. Renewals stall. The buyer inherits a worse business than the one that went to market, and the seller gets paid for it.
So we screen. Registration asks what you can fund and how, a person reads every answer, and confidential material moves only to buyers who could actually close. If you keep your boat at a marina and want to know whether it’s for sale, we understand the curiosity — but that isn’t what this is.
What clears the screen
- Funding you can show
- Equity in hand or a committed source, at a size that matches what you're asking to see. Proof of funds before a property-level package.
- A real timeline
- Actively looking, or looking within the year. Long-horizon curiosity gets the anonymized market view instead.
- Somewhere to put it
- An operator, a partner, or a plan for who runs the marina on Monday. We'll tell you honestly if the plan is thin.
- Confidentiality, accepted
- No approaching a seller's staff or tenants, and no forwarding the file. A countersigned agreement precedes any package.
How buying works
Four steps, and the second one is a person.
01
Register
Five minutes, and the questions are the ones a seller would ask: what you can fund, how you'd fund it, and where you are in the process.
02
We qualify you
A person reviews every registration — usually within a business day. Nothing confidential is released by a form submission.
03
The file opens
Cleared buyers see the marina by name and location, with financials, rent roll, capital plan, and our own operating read on the asset.
04
Tour, offer, close
We arrange the visit off-hours, run diligence, and coordinate the transition so day one doesn't undo the price.
Buyers
What a cleared buyer gets
- The marina by name, with location and land control documented.
- Three years of operating history, normalized, with owner add-backs identified rather than buried.
- Rent roll, slip mix, rate history, and waitlist depth.
- Condition assessment and a sequenced capital plan — the number that usually moves the price.
- Our operating read: what we’d change in the first hundred days and what it would be worth.
- Financing options, because we place marina debt every week — see capital.
Owners
Selling the marina you built
- A valuation grounded in revenue per linear foot and ancillary attach — not a multiple someone quoted at a boat show.
- Sale preparation: rent roll cleanup, contracts papered, capital plan documented. This is where the price is made.
- Confidential marketing to a screened buyer list. Your staff hears it from you, when you decide.
- Diligence run by people who have operated marinas, so the buyer’s engineer doesn’t get to reprice the deal unopposed.
- Transition planning, including whether you stay on — many owners want to.
A note on what we do with your information. Registration details are used to qualify you and to contact you about opportunities. We don’t sell them, and we don’t pass them to a seller without telling you. Ask us to delete your registration and we will.
The marina you want isn't listed anywhere.
That's the point. Register and we'll tell you what's coming before it's public — or, if you're the one selling, we'll tell you what it's worth before anyone knows you asked.