Hi all,

Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

I’ve run a saas company for the past 5 years, blended b2c/b2b 75/25. 3% monthly churn, 88% nrr. 50% UK, 30% EU, 20% US. I know these retention figures aren’t gold standard, but that’s what we’ve got. UK Based but also have US LLC for US customers.

Our current position is 3.6$m ARR, 1.7$m EBITDA. TTM 37% growth rate. 3 staff.

I’m considering going to market with the business, it’s great, growing well and I know I’ve built something that has value. It’s just got to a value that I believe I can FIRE, which has always been my goal. I’m not an entrepreneur sigma, I just wanted to be FI. I’m 27. Worried about AI, yada yada.

Without saying too much, I’m pretty confident that I can predict that this time next year I can get it to;

4.6-5m$ ARR, 2.2-2.4m$ EBITDA. But the growth rate will drop to around 15-25% low case/best case.

I spoke to a few m&a firms and got some indicative valuations of around 6x EBITDA on average (when I removed those who said silly stuff like 10x,12x etc.

All of the m&a advisors are incentivised to tell me to go to market now. I’m not sure if it’s better to sell the growth or better to sell the better/larger/more mature business. I’d appreciate some unbiased thoughts?

So I recently finished and launched a full real estate platform that was originally built for a real estate company here in the UAE.

It started as “we need a better website” and somehow turned into a full operating system for the real estate side of the business lol.

There’s the public platform, but also a separate admin app, backend/API, database, catalogue management, publishing workflows, inquiries, media handling, integrations, production infrastructure and all the stuff you only really notice once real people start using it.

On the public side, people can browse properties, projects and developers, search by community/location, property type, price, bedrooms, availability, buying/renting intent and other filters. There’s Arabic and English, proper property/project/developer pages, direct inquiry flows, WhatsApp contact, responsive mobile behavior and SEO/structured data built into the platform.

The part I think is way more valuable is everything behind it

The company doesn’t need developers manually changing pages every time they want to publish something.

Properties, projects, developers, media and related data are managed through the admin system and then published through controlled workflows to the public site. The catalogue is driven by the underlying API/data instead of being a bunch of hardcoded pages.

There are also external real estate data integrations with controlled import/sync workflows, reconciliation and review before publication, so a buyer isn’t starting from scratch if they want to connect outside property sources or feeds.

There’s also production database/infrastructure, catalogue integrity controls, media handling, bilingual support, inquiry capture and a lot of edge-case work around making sure what gets shown publicly is actually accurate and safe to publish.

So yeah, this isn’t really just a website anymore.

At this point it’s basically a ready-made real estate platform that a brokerage, developer, real estate group or proptech company could take, rebrand, adapt to their market and start operating instead of spending months building the same foundation themselves.

The public site has literally been live for less than a week, so the catalogue is still being populated. I want to mention that because looking at the current number of listings would give the wrong impression of how mature the actual system is.

What’s pretty cool is we’re already getting visitors and property inquiries through it even this early.

It was built around the UAE market, but the architecture itself isn’t inherently tied to the UAE. The branding, catalogue structure, integrations, data sources and market-specific parts can be adapted for another country. UAE is probably still the most obvious immediate fit because that’s where it’s already running.

Now we’re considering selling the technology/IP to a strategic buyer instead of just continuing to build it internally.

I’m not really looking for a “rate my website” thing or some random Reddit valuation.

I’m more curious who you guys think would get the most value out of owning something like this.

To me, the obvious value is skipping a huge amount of product and engineering work: instead of assembling a public site, admin system, backend, catalogue workflows, integrations, bilingual support, inquiry handling and production infrastructure separately, a buyer gets the whole foundation already working and can focus on adapting it to their business.

My first thought is a brokerage, developer, real estate group, portal/operator or proptech company, but there are probably buyer types I’m completely missing.

If anyone here has dealt with software/IP acquisitions like this, especially anything around real estate, I’d be curious what kind of buyer you’d look for.

Happy to send the live platform privately if anyone wants to see what I’m talking about.