Buy a Dental Practice
If you’re thinking about buying a dental practice, we can help you find the right clinic at the right price.
Featured practices for sale
- Practice based in a well-connected town in the Southeast
- Mixed dental practice
- Goodwill and fixtures available for £959,940
- Annual revenue £726,248
- NHS contract value £51,042 – (1,550 UDAs)
- Former GP practice in Scotland
- Available for purchase at £400,000 (Freehold) or a 15 year lease at £25,000 per annum
- Compliant rooms, ideal for use as a dental practice
- Perfectly positioned for a startup dental practice in an area with demand for local dentistry services
How we help dentists buy a practice
Finding a Practice
Gain access to Samera’s internal list of practices for sale. We can help you find the right practice for you that matches your criteria.
Loans to Buy a Practice
Our team of finance brokers specialise in helping dentists raise the money to buy a dental practice. We will find the best deal that suits your needs.
Mergers
Dental practice merger decisions can be intimidating and perplexing. It might seem like a good deal, but without a proper assessment of the proposition, you might be inviting trouble. To help you make the right decision we can help you assess each opportunity, whether you are buying or selling a practice.
Valuations
We will conduct a due diligence review of the vendor’s initial practice valuation. If we feel the price is not right, we challenge the valuation and make sure you’re paying the right price.
Price Negotiations
Our dental practice sales experts will negotiate on your behalf for any practice you may be interested in making an offer on. We have been buying and selling practices for over 20 years. We know what they’re really worth.
Due Diligence
We will conduct a full, in-depth due diligence analysis. Including: A review of historical financials (P&L, balance sheets), cash flow and working capital analysis, identification of financial risks/liabilities, verification of income and expenses.
Business Planning
The key to success is a great business plan. We can help you develop a comprehensive business plan for your new practice. From marketing analysis to financial projections, we’ll help make sure your plan is one that works.
Cashflow Forecasting
We will help you draw up detailed, accurate cashflow projections and forecasts. Inflows and outflows, operational strategy and growth plans – we can help make sure your practice takes off.
Optional Extras
Legal & Compliance
Integration
- Legal Partner Referrals: Specialist dental solicitor referrals for agreements (heads of terms, sale, leases).
- CQC Compliance Review (Pre-Acquisition) Referrals: Assessment of target practice’s CQC status and identification of issues.
- Employment Law Guidance Referrals: Advice on TUPE regulations for staff, review of contracts/HR policies.
Operational & Integration
Support
- Post-Acquisition Integration Workshop: Planning session for the first 90 days (staffing, patient comms, systems).
- Systems Implementation & Optimization: Consultation on practice management software and workflow streamlining.
- Marketing & Patient Retention Strategy: Post-acquisition communication plan for patients, new patient attraction strategies.
- Access to Dental Buying Group: Facilitation of access to the buying group for preferential rates on equipment and consumables.
- Supplier & Service Contract Review: Analysis of existing contracts for cost-saving opportunities or renegotiation.
Ongoing Financial &
Strategic Partnership
- Ongoing Accounts & Tax Client Service: Option to transition to full Samera Accounts & Tax services post-acquisition (e.g., annual accounts, tax returns, payroll, pensions).
- Post-Acquisition Financial Health Checkup: Review within 3-6 months to assess performance and identify improvements.
- Finance Director Services: Strategic financial guidance (budgeting, forecasting, monitoring).
- Cashflow Management: Ongoing support and advice for managing practice cash flow effectively.
- Fee Review (Post-Acquisition): Analysis of fee structure for profitability and competitiveness.
Interested in buying a practice?
Answer these questions and if any suitable practices match your requirements we will be in touch.
Explore our services
Dental Accounts Services
Finance
Why dentists trust samera finance
Reviews
I have found my dealings with Samera, who offer a range of services, to be of the highest standard. A special thanks … been very supportive and insightful with our goal to finance the purchase of a surgery … always been on hand to offer sound advice whilst reviewing financials expertly. Thank you.
5 Stars
I can’t recommend Samera enough to anybody looking to secure finance for acquisition of a dental practice. I speak from personal experience ….. It took only days to get the finance in place and furthermore … has gone over his remit in helping me along the process with valuable advice that saves me much time and money! Basically if you want a result call Samera!
5 Stars
From the bootcamp I signed up to use … finance services … went above and beyond my expectations; helping me finance the purchase, coming with me to inspect the practice, helping me with readings accounts etc and always picking up the phone when I had questions for him. I would happily recommend Samera to any prospective buyer, and have already done so.
5 Stars
Great service, really paid attention to our needs and offered us the appropriate advice. In particular we were impressed with the time, dedication and focus given to help us finance our acquisition of a dental practice with good rates. We also managed to stay in communication during unsociable hours which really made the process convenient for us. Very helpful.
5 Stars
Case Studies
£86,000 Saved Over the Life of a Loan
The Problem
One of our recent dental practice sales clients managed to get a whopping 1.1% off their loan interest rate when they bought their first practice!
Our client approached their own bank before coming to us. Their proposition was to purchase their first practice in London with their wife.
Their bank was very receptive to the deal and offered to finance 80% of the purchase price over 15 years at a rate of 3.2% above the base rate.
That might sound like a good deal – but it doesn’t sound good to us.
The Solution
Our client then approached us to see what if we thought that the deal was a “good one” to us. It didn’t. 3.2% above base rate is far higher than we usually negotiate for our clients.
After our own information gathering exercise, we approached several lenders in the UK healthcare finance market – including the clients own bank, who had originally offered the 3.2%.
We achieved offers from multiple lenders we had approached far below the 3.2% original offer.
The Result
Through our own information gathering, structuring of the deal and negotiating the price, we managed to achieve a rate of 2.1% above the base rate – a whole 11% lower than the original offer.
And this was from the client’s own bank who had originally offered 3.2%!
So, how much did this save our client? That 1.1% saved our client £5,736 per year and £86,000 over the life of the loan. Well worth the fee payable to the broker for our experience and work completed on this deal.
Succeeding Where Other Brokers Fail
The Problem
We were recently approached by an associate dentist in the North West of England who was having trouble purchasing their first dental practice.
They told us that they had been trying to buy this practice for some months and had engaged the services of a finance broker who claimed they were healthcare specialists.
However, the brokers were unable to source any finance for the client and the brokers had now come back and said to them that he would not be able to proceed with the plans.
The Solution
Luckily, they found us online and understood that we are independent financial brokers with no ties to any specific lender or sales agents who specialise in the dental sector.
After our initial discussion, we outlined what information and documentation we would need to approach a wide range of lenders. We could not understand why the original brokers had struggled to source any finance for the client.
The client explained that we had asked for much more detailed information than their previous brokers and had a far more in depth and comprehensive process for putting a finance application together.
The Result
Once we had received the documents and put the application together we were able to obtain 3 separate offers from 3 different commercial finance lenders.
The client was then able to determine which offer best suited their situation and goals before proceeding.
They are now the proud owner of their own dental practice and in our follow up discussions, everything is going fantastically with their new practice!
£8,000 Saved on the Early Payment Fee
The Problem
One of our clients approached us with a plan to purchase a new premises recently. However, they already had a substantial loan with a lender and that loan came with an early repayment charge of 1%.
To purchase the new premises, they were looking to refinance their current deal and incur the early repayment penalty.
Luckily for them, they came to us first.
The Solution
That particular lender had recently been acquired by another firm and had taken the decision to stop providing new loans in this finance sector.
We approached the lender with the client and used our knowledge and experience to renegotiate the payment penalty.
The Result
We managed to get the early payment charge down from 1% to just 0.25% – saving our client £8,000 on the fee!
Using a commercial finance broker’s experience and knowledge pays off.
Resources
Buying a Dental Practice:
Get Started
When buying a dental practice (especially if it’s for the first time), you need the competent hands of qualified professionals. Not only have we been helping the UK’s dentists to buy, start and sell dental practices for over 20 years, we are dental practice owners ourselves! We know what it takes to buy the right dental practice, we can help you find it, buy it and get it up and running.
Book a free, no-obligation consultation with one of our team at a time that suits you (including evenings). We’ll call you back and have a chat about how we can help buy your dream practice.
Learn More:
Buying a Dental Practice
For more information please check out the articles and webinars in the buying a dental practice section of our Learning Centre like the Guide to Buying a Dental Practice.
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