Hair salons
Independent salons and multi-stylist studios, including chair rental models.
About BuyMySalon
The UK's health and beauty business sale specialists
We have spent years working exclusively with salon and beauty business owners who want to sell well. Here is what that means in practice and why it matters.
Who we are
A specialist firm. Not a generalist platform.
Most business brokers handle everything. On any given day they may be dealing with a newsagent, a recruitment agency, a care home, and a hair salon. Their model depends on volume: list many businesses, generate enquiries, and hope some of them convert. The sector knowledge required to handle a salon sale well, the understanding of chair rental income and its effect on buyer confidence, the nuances of lease assignment in retail premises, the challenge of owner dependency and how to address it, the regulatory framework around aesthetics practices, is not something you develop by handling one or two salon sales a year alongside everything else.
We handle health and beauty businesses exclusively. Hair salons, beauty salons, aesthetics clinics, spas, barbershops, nail studios, and multi-site groups. Nothing else. This is not a niche we have moved into as an addition to a broader business. It is the only thing we do.
The consequence is a depth of sector knowledge that directly affects the quality of advice we give and the outcomes we achieve. We know how buyers in this sector think, what they look for, where they find risk, and what they are willing to pay for a business that has been properly prepared and honestly presented. We know which lease issues will kill a deal and which can be navigated. We know how to present a chair rental model to a buyer who has never encountered one. We know the difference between a business that is ready to go to market and one that needs six months of preparation first, and we are willing to tell you which category your business falls into.
Our history
Years of completed sales across the UK
We have been working with health and beauty business owners across the United Kingdom for many years. The businesses we have sold range from a single-chair barbershop in a coastal town to multi-site salon groups with combined turnovers approaching a million pounds. We have handled straightforward transactions that completed in four months and complex situations involving difficult landlords, regulatory complications, and ownership disputes that took longer but reached the right outcome.
What we have learned from this experience is consistent: the businesses that sell well are those whose owners prepared properly, priced realistically, and chose an adviser who understood what they were selling. The businesses that do not sell well, or that sell for significantly less than they should, almost always have at least one of these elements missing.
We take on instructions selectively. We do not list every business that approaches us. We will tell you honestly if we do not believe a sale is viable at your expected price, or if there are things you should address before going to market. That honesty occasionally means we do not take on an instruction. We believe it is the reason the instructions we do take on have a strong completion rate.
100%
Sector focused
Health and beauty businesses only. No generalist dilution.
UK-Wide
National coverage
Completed sales from London to Scotland across every region.
Confidential
Every instruction
Default confidential process. Public listing only when appropriate.
Sector knowledge
What sector knowledge actually means in practice
The difference between a specialist and a generalist is not a matter of effort or professionalism. It is a matter of accumulated, specific knowledge that can only be built through repeated transaction experience in one sector.
When we review a health and beauty business for the first time, we are not applying a generic framework. We are assessing it against the pattern of hundreds of similar businesses we have reviewed before. We know what sustainable profit looks like in a business of this type. We know how buyers will react to a certain staffing structure or a certain lease position. We know which add-backs will survive a buyer's accountant's scrutiny and which will be challenged. We know which buyers on our register are genuinely active and well-funded and which are browsing.
That knowledge affects every stage of the process. It affects the valuation range we give you, which is based on current buyer demand rather than theoretical multiples. It affects the way we prepare and present the business to buyers, which is shaped by knowing what questions they will ask and addressing them before they ask. It affects the way we manage negotiation, which is grounded in knowing what the market will bear and where leverage actually lies.
A generalist broker learns these things slowly and expensively, one transaction at a time. We already know them.
Sectors we cover
The businesses we sell
Every instruction we take on sits inside the health and beauty sector. These are the business types we work with day in, day out.
Beauty salons
Full service beauty businesses offering facials, waxing, lashes and treatments.
Aesthetics clinics
Injectables, skin and advanced aesthetics practices, including CQC adjacent operations.
Spas and wellness
Day spas, wellness studios and treatment-led destination businesses.
Barbershops
Traditional and contemporary barbering, from single chair to multi-site operations.
Nail studios
Dedicated nail bars and combined nail and beauty studios across the UK.
Our commitments
What you can expect from us
Honest from the start
We give you a realistic view of what your business is likely to achieve. Not what you want to hear. Not an inflated number to win the instruction.
Confidentiality as the default
We do not list your business publicly without discussion. Our default approach is targeted and private.
Buyers we know
Our buyer register is actively maintained. We know who is serious, who is funded, and who is looking for exactly what you have.
We see it through
We support both parties through due diligence, manage problems when they arise, and stay with the transaction until it completes.
Legal
Legal information
BuyMySalon is a trading style of Bizworks Online Limited, registered in England and Wales. We act as business transfer agents. We are not a firm of solicitors and do not provide legal advice. All legal aspects of a business sale are handled by the solicitors appointed by the respective parties.
In the course of our work we handle personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the UK General Data Protection Regulation. We are committed to treating all information shared with us in strict confidence.
If you are considering selling your health and beauty business, the most useful first step is a confidential conversation with someone who has done this many times before in your sector.
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