No owner posts "thinking of selling." But a forced or motivated exit leaves a public trail, and a few signals reliably point to a seller who has to move.
- A liquidation or business-rescue filing — the strongest signal there is. Published in the Government Gazette with a registration and court case number; the liquidator now has to sell the business or its assets.
- An emigration or retirement sale — a time-boxed, motivated seller who wants a clean, discreet exit, not a bidding war.
- "Priced to sell" or a recent price cut — the language and the number both say the owner is done waiting.
- Owner-operated, single site — no corporate parent, no PE, so the decision is one person's to make quickly.
Read individually they're just listings and legal notices; scored together they rank the sellers most likely to say yes. DealSignals reads the Gazette and the broker sites, scores every row on one deal-heat scale, and hands you the "why now" plus the first move — so you spend your time on the deals that are actually moving.