The advisor for what comes next.
HeadSouth is a boutique business brokerage and commercial real estate advisory in North Georgia. Business brokerage is the primary practice: confidential guidance for owners considering retirement, succession, or a sale. Commercial real estate, land, farms, acreage, and probate-related property are important specialties served with the same care.
Whether you are a business owner thinking about retirement or succession, a commercial property owner weighing a sale, or a family working through inherited land, every engagement starts with a confidential conversation.
Former CPA. Business owner. Bringing financial insight and firsthand ownership experience to business sales and transitions.
30+ years
in real estate, license originally issued 1995
GA #171442
Salesperson, licensed by the Georgia Real Estate Commission
eXp Commercial LLC
1372 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 · 888-959-9461
What HeadSouth Does
Four practice areas, one way of working: listen, then advise.
Business brokerage leads the practice, with commercial real estate, land, and probate-related property following. Every engagement begins with a conversation and an honest review of options.
Primary Practice
Business Brokerage
Confidential guidance for owners considering retirement, succession, an ownership transition, or a sale. Business valuation considerations, seller preparation, qualified buyers, and the transaction process, handled with discretion.
Explore Business BrokerageCommercial Real Estate
Commercial property transactions, especially opportunities where an operating business and its underlying real estate move together. Commercial sales, owner-occupied property, and selected investments.
Explore CommercialLand
Acreage properties across North Georgia: homes with acreage, rural estates, farms, timberland, and larger family landholdings. Specialized marketing and landowner education for land that deserves more than a formula.
Explore Land ServicesProbate
Advisory work for executors, heirs, and families navigating inherited and estate property, with real estate guidance kept clearly distinct from legal, estate-planning, and tax advice.
Explore Probate & EstateFitness Studios and Franchise Resales
My family and I own and operate franchised fitness studios, and before this chapter I spent years as a CPA. I know the daily business from the owner's side: memberships, staffing, equipment, the franchise relationship, and I read the financials like an accountant. If you own a studio and are thinking about what comes next, this page is for those questions.
Business Brokerage
Built for owners who built something worth protecting.
Most of my business brokerage clients are established owners: they built a company, kept it running through good years and hard ones, and are now considering retirement, succession, an ownership transition, or a sale. Those conversations deserve preparation, valuation considerations, and discretion in equal measure.
I focus on manufacturing and fabrication, HVAC, plumbing, electrical and specialty trades, fitness studios and franchise resales, accounting and CPA practices, and selected automotive and other service businesses.
Land & Acreage Properties
Homes with acreage, rural estates, farms, and family landholdings, marketed with care.
The focus is acreage property: homes with acreage, rural estates, farms, timberland, and larger family landholdings, where the land itself carries much of the value. Access, topography, utilities, zoning, soils, surveys, road frontage, timber, and development potential all shape what a parcel is worth and how it should be marketed. Every tract tells a different story, and I present each one with professional photography, drone imagery, and detailed property analysis.
For landowners weighing a sale, an education-first approach matters: understanding value, avoiding common mistakes, and knowing when to hold. That guidance is preserved in our land resources below.
Probate & Inherited Property
Estate property questions, answered one step at a time.
When a family member passes, the land and property they leave behind come with real questions: what might it be worth, what can we do with it, and what happens next? I help executors, personal representatives, and heirs understand their options one step at a time, whether the estate holds a home on a lot, an inherited rural estate, or family acreage where the land itself is a significant part of the value. Real estate guidance stays clearly distinct from legal, estate-planning, and tax advice.
Every conversation starts with a clear Equity Review, not a sales presentation. Hold it, list it, sell as-is, or prepare it: the plan should match the estate and the family, not the other way around.
The Advisor
Marcus T. Head. Commercial Advisor, eXp Commercial LLC.
30+ years in real estate, a Georgia license originally issued in 1995, and a former CPA's command of the numbers: normalized earnings, recurring revenue, and the difference between what a business or property earns and what a buyer can rely on. That financial lens applies across the entire HeadSouth Business Brokerage practice, in every industry we serve.
Business ownership informs it just as deeply. My family and I own and operate three HotWorx franchise studios, so I know the owner's side of the table as well as the advisor's, and I bring that firsthand experience to business owners across the whole practice, not only fitness. I have lived and worked in North Georgia since 1995, and I serve Canton, Cherokee County, Ball Ground, Waleska, Woodstock, and the surrounding region through eXp Commercial LLC.
Member, REALTORS Land Institute (RLI), Georgia Association of Business Brokers (GABB) and International Business Brokers Association (IBBA)
Start the Conversation
Business, commercial, land, or probate: tell me where you are.
You do not need a plan before you call. The first conversation is often simply about understanding the situation, the options, and the timeline. Whether you are exploring a business sale, a commercial property, land, or an estate, everything begins with a confidential conversation.
Tell Marcus about your situation
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