If you look at dealership buy-sell activity from Q1, it plummeted from last year’s levels. However, some people believed things were looking up. In a Blue Sky Report from earlier this year, Erin Kerrigan, Founder and Managing Director of Kerrigan Advisors, said we’re “tracking towards 240 transactions for the year and pacing ahead of 2015’s record level.” We asked her if she still believed that now that we’re in September.
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