Cleaning Businesses for Sale
347 cleaning businesses are for sale on 83 broker websites that DealLedger reads directly, with 37 new in the last 30 days, a median asking price of $284K and a median of 2.8× cash flow.
200 most recently listed of 347
“broker ↗” opens the listing on the broker’s own website. DealLedger never stands between you and the seller’s broker.
What sets the price of a cleaning business
Owner-operated cleaning companies are priced on seller’s discretionary earnings. Where a business lands in the range depends mostly on what kind of revenue it has: contracted commercial accounts, recurring residential clients, or one-off jobs.
Commercial and janitorial companies are valued on their contracts. Written, assignable agreements spread across many customers are worth more than handshake accounts, and one customer above roughly a quarter of revenue usually lowers the price.
Residential and maid services are valued on recurring frequency and retention. A book of weekly and biweekly clients billed automatically is worth more than the same revenue from move-outs and deep cleans.
Labor is the risk buyers price hardest. Properly classified crews, low turnover and a supervisor between the owner and the customers all move a business up the range.
What to check before you make an offer
Get revenue by customer for the last two to three years, and check how many of today’s accounts were there a year ago.
Read every large contract for term, termination notice and whether it can be assigned to a new owner.
Ask how cleaners are paid and classified, and what payroll looks like as a share of revenue. Misclassified 1099 crews are a liability that transfers with the business.
Common questions
How are cleaning businesses for sale priced?
Usually as a multiple of seller’s discretionary earnings, higher for contracted commercial revenue and recurring residential clients, lower for one-off work or businesses that depend on the owner. The median asking price and price-to-cash-flow ratio at the top of this page come from the listings below.
Is a commercial or residential cleaning business a better buy?
Commercial businesses usually have larger, contracted accounts and more concentration risk; residential businesses have many small clients and more churn. Which is better depends on whether you would rather manage customer relationships or a high volume of scheduling.
Where do these cleaning business listings come from?
Directly from business broker websites. DealLedger records when each listing first appears and when it comes down, so days on market reflect what we have actually observed, and every listing links straight to the broker.
Cleaning Businesses by state
- Florida 48
- New Jersey 30
Other business types
- Restaurants 6,087
- Retail Businesses 2,846
- Healthcare Businesses 1,767
- Technology & Online Businesses 1,504
- Automotive Businesses 1,153
- Construction Companies 956
- Manufacturing Companies 798
- Delivery Routes 516
- Amusement & Entertainment Businesses 323
- Landscaping Businesses 317
- HVAC Companies 309
- Electrical Contractors 173
- Plumbing Companies 163
- Laundromats 155
- Vending Routes 130
- Roofing Companies 103
- Dry Cleaners 80
- Pool Service Businesses 43
- Junk Removal Businesses 34
DealLedger reads the public listings pages of business brokers directly and records when each listing first appears and when it comes down. Days on market count from the first day we saw the listing; “by” means the listing was already up when we started reading that broker’s site, so it has been listed at least that long. Price ÷ cash flow is the asking price divided by the seller’s stated cash flow (SDE), where both are published. All data is public domain (CC0). Full methodology.