How do I sell an eldercare or home care business in Singapore confidentially?
Off-market. Nothing is publicly listed and nothing carries your name. Early materials use a reference code instead of your business name and address, buyers see identifying details only after signing an NDA you have approved by name, and you decide when staff and families are told. In care that discipline matters more than in most sectors, because unsettled families and staff move quickly.
How is an eldercare or home care business valued?
On normalised earnings, then tested against how durable the revenue and the operating position are. Buyers look at client tenure and referral sources, care staff retention and roster coverage, premises tenure, and above all the licensing and compliance standing, because they are buying the ability to keep operating. We give you a written valuation under NDA, for a fixed fee credited against our success fee if you sell with us.
What happens to the licence when the business is sold?
This is deal-critical and it is not something to assume. The treatment depends on the service type, the regulatory position and how the transaction is structured, whether as a sale of shares or of the business and assets. It needs to be established at the start with your lawyer and the relevant regulator rather than discovered late, because a buyer will not complete without certainty on it. We put it at the top of the checklist before any buyer is approached.
Who buys care businesses in Singapore?
Care and healthcare groups expanding capacity, investor-backed platforms consolidating the sector, and experienced operators moving into ownership. Buyers in care underwrite compliance and staffing as hard as they underwrite earnings, so a clean operating record is worth real money.
What does Clearmere charge?
Our sale fee is success-based and paid on completion: no sale, no fee. A written valuation is a separate fixed fee, agreed and paid before we start, and credited in full against our success fee if you sign with us within 6 months and the sale completes. The first conversation, a short questionnaire and our written recommendation on which valuation fits are free and carry no obligation.
Will my staff and my families be looked after?
For most owners in care this matters as much as the price, and it is a negotiating point rather than an afterthought. Continuity of the care team is usually what the buyer is paying for, so the interests normally align. It is worth putting in writing early instead of trusting it to goodwill at completion.
