How vendor finance and earn-outs bridge a price gap in a childcare business sale — deferred consideration, performance targets, security, and the risk each side carries.

Funds and consolidators are buying childcare again. Here’s what the return of institutional capital means for a private vendor’s price and exit timing.

How to read a childcare Information Memorandum: decode the vendor’s indicative figures, test add-backs and occupancy claims, and spot what the IM leaves out.

The 6–12 week corridor between signing and keys: how a childcare service approval transfers, the 60-day regulator clock, and a day-one handover checklist.

When you sell a leasehold childcare centre, the landlord’s consent to assign the lease can delay — or kill — settlement. Here’s how to manage it.

The 5.8% fee growth cap ceilings your revenue growth from 8 August 2026. Here’s what a capped fee line does to your childcare centre’s value — and your sale timing.

Every childcare worker must complete national child safety training by 27 August 2026. Who needs Foundation training, who needs EC PROTECT, and how to get it done.

EOI, private treaty, off-market or auction? The sale method you choose decides who finds out, how hard buyers compete, and how fast you settle.

How a childcare sale-and-leaseback unlocks capital from your freehold while you keep operating — and why the lease you sign sets both the sale price and your future rent.

Two buyers, two very different returns. Understand the real ROI on a leasehold childcare business — cash-on-cash, leverage, and how it differs from a property yield.