Most buyers I meet have run the numbers three times — EBITDA, rent factor, multiple. Almost none can tell me who actually generates the revenue. That gap is what the veterinarian shortage has quietly widened in 2026. A practice can […]
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I’ve watched more than one first-time buyer hit the structure question the way you hit a pothole. Three weeks from closing the attorney asks whether this is an asset purchase or a stock purchase, and the buyer looks up like […]
When a buyer agrees to pay $1.2 million for a veterinary practice and the equipment, supplies, and furniture are worth $180,000, the question worth asking before closing is, “What is the other $1,020,000 actually purchasing?” The answer is goodwill. Goodwill […]
The conversation starts casually. The owner mentions succession. Maybe they float a number—a percentage, a timeline, an equity stake. It sounds good. You’ve been working together for three years, you trust each other clinically, and the practice fits your life. […]
Walk into any state veterinary conference in the last two years and the hallway conversations sound the same. Who’s buying what? What Mars paid. Whether the associate at the practice down the road is making more under a corporate structure. […]
A veterinary practice that cost a buyer around $13,000 per month to carry in 2021 may cost $15,500 to $16,200 today. That gap doesn’t appear on any listing sheet. It doesn’t show up in a broker’s pitch deck. But it […]
Nobody warned you that buying a veterinary practice would require you to become fluent in loan structures. And yet here you are, trying to decode the difference between an SBA 7(a) and a conventional healthcare loan while also vetting a […]
The practices that sell fast this year will not go to the highest bidder. They will go to the most prepared one—and that distinction matters before you spend a single hour browsing listings. Buying a veterinary practice in a competitive […]
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