Dental Spy reads every dental practice in England: what it turns over, what it’s worth, and the signs that come before a sale. Owners open to an offer tell members first, or just the particular buyers they like.
Once a practice is listed, every buyer in the country can see it. Members start earlier.
Long before a listing, a practice starts to look like one that will sell. Which signs we read, we keep to ourselves. What they predict, we publish.
2× The practices we flag are twice as likely to sell within a year.
Owners quietly open to the right offer tell members first. You see the region, the size and the income. The name stays theirs to give.
First You see the practice before the owner calls a broker.
The listing goes out to every buyer on the broker’s list.
20,000 buyers on brokers’ lists. About 217 for every practice for sale.
Best and final. The highest offer wins and the rest start again.
4 of 5 buyers who bid on a practice walk away with nothing.
Say what you buy once. The rest happens without you.
Tell it your regions, size, and NHS or private. Every practice in England is ranked against your brief, and the list updates as things change.
Send us any practice you’re looking at, listed or not. We tell you what it really makes, whether the price is fair, and what could go wrong.
Owners quietly open to the right offer. Show your funds and you see them three days early.
Ask for an introduction, then talk directly. The owner says yes or no. Dental Spy takes no fee on any sale, ever.
South East · 3 to 6 surgeries · mostly private
Every practice in your brief, ranked. No waiting for anyone to send it.
Illustrative. Owners open to an offer choose who gets their name.
The screens, yes. A good developer with AI agents could have them in a few months. The screens were never the hard part. Here is what you can’t build.
A record starts the day you start keeping it. Ours already holds every listing move we have seen and practice sales going back years. You can’t go back and record last year.
A lot of what we hold is paid for, and some comes straight from owners. An agent searching the open web finds none of it.
An AI will give you a turnover for any practice in seconds. It won’t tell you when it’s wrong. Ours are checked against reported figures and real sale prices, and each one says how sure we are.
Even a perfect copy of our data is only a map. Owners open to an offer tell members, because there is no fee and nobody learns their name until they say so. An owner has no reason to tell your in-house tool anything.
Ready in a yearif it goes well
What it costsA developer, the data bills and the upkeep, every day
Ready today
What it costsOne yearly membership. The upkeep is ours.
Build the tool if you like building tools. If you want the practice, join.
Get first lookYour brief stays yours. What you search and who is on your shortlist stays in your account. No owner and no other member sees it.
Three real purchases, told by the owners on the record. Names withheld.
Seven chairs · South WestBought 2022
As it ran£100,000 a chair
Four years on£250,000 a chair
£700,000 a year on seven chairs. For sale for two years: too big for a new associate to take on. £2.5m a year on ten chairs. No cosmetics, no aligners.
Two surgeries · YorkshireBought 2021
As it ran3 staff
Fifteen months on4× the turnover
A small private practice, bought by a first-time owner. Twenty staff. Valued at five times what it cost.
City centre · South WestBought 2012
As it ran£500,000 a year
Five years on£2.1m a year
Three partners retiring. Four years on the market. In the filed accounts. Then sold to a corporate at about six times its profit.
There is no fee on any sale, so more of the price is theirs. They stay anonymous until they choose otherwise, and they only hear from buyers who have paid to be here.
NHS income comes from the payment records, to the pound. Turnover shows high confidence where reported figures back it, and every other figure tells you how sure we are. We would rather say so than guess.
No. Dental Spy is not a party to any sale, gives no advice and takes no fee on any sale, ever. Your solicitor, accountant and lender do what they always do.
One yearly membership, shown before you pay. No fee on any sale, ever.
Nothing until you ask for an introduction. Then they see who you are and what you have bought. Show us your funds and your requests carry “funds checked”.
Being on the map does not mean a practice is for sale. Dental Spy is not a party to any sale and gives no advice.