Frequently asked questions

Dunross is a New York licensed commercial and business brokerage firm led by Michael Crow. Its core work is helping buyers find, evaluate, and buy small businesses — sourcing opportunities, testing them against the buyer's criteria, structuring the deal, coordinating financing, and supporting the closing. Dunross also arranges debt and structured capital for business and commercial real estate acquisitions.

It starts with the buyer's criteria — the Buy Box: industry, size, geography, and the income the business must produce. Dunross then searches on-market and off-market opportunities, approaches owners directly, and screens each business against the criteria before the buyer spends time or money. For businesses that fit, Dunross supports valuation, offer structure, due diligence, financing, and the path to closing.

Primarily buyers: professionals making a second-act move into ownership, independent sponsors, and graduates of the Owners Room community and Owners Table cohort, which exist to prepare buyers for exactly this step. Dunross also works with business owners considering a sale.

Established small businesses with real customers and real cash flow — the essential, unglamorous kind: home services, trades, and other businesses people need rather than want. The test is always the same: a business that runs on a proven process, bought at a fair price on workable terms.

Yes. Brokerage services are provided through Dunross Realty LLC, a New York licensed commercial real estate, business and loan brokerage firm, and the broker license is held in Michael Crow's name, License #10491210884. Michael is a member of the IBBA (International Business Brokers Association).

They are one path. The book, Own Your Life, helps a reader decide whether to buy, build, or back a business. The Owners Room community and the Owners Table cohort turn that decision into a written plan. Dunross is the licensed brokerage that then does the actual work of finding the business and getting the acquisition closed.

Michael Crow is the founder of Dunross Capital Partners and a licensed New York broker. Over 40 years he has bought, built, and financed companies across real estate, home services, manufacturing, and financial services, and he is a Harvard Business School OPM graduate. He is the author of Own Your Life: Your Second Act Guide to Owning a Business (launching December 10, 2026), publisher of the Owner's Equity newsletter, and host of the Owner's Equity with Michael Crow podcast.

East Hampton, New York — Ste 369, 81 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937. Dunross works with buyers and sellers across the United States. Start through the Contact page with a short description of what you want to buy, or the business you may want to sell.