Hair & beauty salon brokers

As a dedicated salon sales broker, we cover the full breadth of the hair and beauty market: hair salons and hairdressing studios, barbershops and men’s grooming studios, beauty salons and beauty therapy clinics, day spas and wellness spas, medi-spas and cosmetic injecting clinics, laser and skin clinics, nail salons and nail bars, waxing, brow and lash studios, blow dry bars and hair extension studios, makeup studios, tanning studios, and multi-site or franchise salon groups. We handle both leasehold operations and freehold-with-business sales, single-owner salons and multi-site portfolios, from suburban strip-shop salons to CBD flagship clinics. Whatever the structure of your business, we have brokers who sell that type week in, week out.

Value is driven by your normalised earnings, client rebooking rate and average spend, staff and stylist retention, your lease terms and location, and any retail or recurring revenue. We provide a confidential, no-obligation appraisal that benchmarks your salon against recent comparable sales rather than a rule-of-thumb multiple.

Well-prepared salons with clean financials and a strong client base often attract offers within a few weeks, with settlement typically following in one to four months depending on finance, due diligence and any lease assignment. Preparation before listing is the single biggest factor in a fast sale.

Most salons sell as a leasehold operation, with the lease assigned to the buyer. If you own the premises, we can also sell the freehold with the business as a package, or as an investment with a lease in place. We’ll advise which structure attracts the strongest buyers for your circumstances.

Your lease usually needs to be assigned to the incoming owner, which requires landlord consent. We map exactly what’s required early on and coordinate with your landlord and solicitor so it doesn’t stall the deal.

Buyers will check staff qualifications and registrations, infection-control and hygiene compliance, chemical storage and handling, and, where relevant, cosmetic injecting, laser or other specialist licensing. Getting records in order before listing removes risk from the buyer’s view and protects your price. We’ll flag what’s worth addressing up front.

No. Confidentiality is central to how we work. Your salon is marketed without being named, every buyer signs an NDA before receiving details, and you decide if and when to tell your team. Most of our sellers announce the sale only once it’s done.

Fees are agreed up front and are typically a combination of a marketing contribution and a success commission payable on settlement. There are no hidden charges. Your broker will walk you through the full engagement before you commit to anything.

Yes, and it’s in your interest to. A salon trading consistently, with your team and client bookings in place, demonstrates the earnings buyers are paying for and keeps momentum through due diligence to settlement.