In the first quarter of 2022, childcare and healthcare business broker Redwoods Dowling Kerr (RDK) has transacted a deal a day, which is ‘absolutely unprecedented’, according to sales and marketing director Andrew Steen.
It is a similar picture for property specialist Christie & Co, which has 96 nursery transactions in the pipeline so far this year, made up of single-asset nurseries and small, medium-sized and corporate groups.
‘Looking at our deal progression pipelines for the first half of the year, 2022 could potentially be a record-breaking bumper year in the UK for day nursery business transactions,’ explains Courteney Donaldson, managing director of Childcare and Education. ‘Buyers are scouting for the best opportunities and some deals are being closed in record time of less than eight weeks, as opposed to a normal timetable of six months.’
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