If you are looking to buy a salon, where can you find beauty salons for sale, or hair salons for sale in your area? “Business for Sale” listings websites are becoming more widely used. In this article, we test some of the most popular, to see how easy it is to find hair and beauty businesses, and how many they list.
It is also worth checking what services each site offers - for example, can you register your email address, to be sent the latest listings as they are added, or do they have an RSS feed to subscribe to? And look at their policies and procedures to see how they make their money - do they charge the buyer, the seller, or do they make money from advertising, for example?
We have shown links to searches of the websites’ listings for Hair and Beauty businesses, where we can, with numbers of businesses found (at the time of publishing this article) to give an idea of their size and geographical coverage.
BusinessesforSale.com features listings for the UK, USA, Spain, and other countries. Using their Advanced Search option, we found -
- Hair and Beauty Salons for sale in the UK (893 listed)
- Hair and Beauty Salons for sale in the USA (693 listed)
- Hair and Beauty Salons for sale in Australia (104 isted)
BizBuySell.com says it is “The Internet’s largest business for sale marketplace”. We found their search functionality was not ideal for Hair and Beauty Salons, especially if outside the USA (for example, you cannot search for UK, only Europe). It does not seem to be possible to link to their search results. At the time we searched, they showed -
- Beauty Salons and Barber Shops for sale in Europe (31 listed)
- Beauty Salons and Barber Shops for sale in the USA (500+ listed)
- Beauty Salons and Barber Shops for sale in Australia / New Zealand (0 listed)
Dalton’s says it is “The UK’s largest free search of businesses for sale”. They listed -
- Beauty Salons for sale in the UK (637 listed)
- Hairdressers Salons for sale in the UK (1125 listed)
BizQuest.com says it is “The internet’s leading business for sale marketplace”. It seems to be mostly US businesses, with a few from other countries. For example, it currently lists -
- Beauty Salons and Barber Shop businesses for sale (937 total, 37 in the UK)
BusinessMart.com describes itself as “The Business Search Engine”. It only covers the USA and Canada. They showed -
- Beauty Salons and Barber Shops Businesses for sale in USA (over 700 listed)
BizBen.com says it is “the number one website to find businesses for sale in California”. We found their search functionality was not very intuitive. We tried to search-by-type, and after a lot of scrolling, selected “Beauty Service”. It does not seem to be possible to link to their search results page. At the time of writing, we found 211 beauty businesses for sale.
Australian Business for Sale is currently showing 6 Hair Salons for sale, and 4 Beauty Salons for sale. It does not seem to be possible to link to their search results pages.
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