Buying an Optometry Practice
Hands-down the best way to improve your income, achieve professional autonomy, payoff school loan debt, and propel yourself forward in your career! Stop making other people money, and start working for yourself!
Buying an optometry practice is an excellent opportunity for optometrists looking to excel in their career and earn 2-3 times the average wage of an employed OD, while achieving professional autonomy and control over one’s schedule. Buying a turn-key practice provides you immediate name recognition, online presence, patient records, and other intangibles like goodwill, loyal and trained staff, working office systems, operating equipment, inventory, and an existing referral network. Buying a practice is much less risk than starting a practice and the prices are not much higher comparatively.
VPG’s team includes attorneys, MBAs, accountants, practice management experts, and doctors with over 70 years combined experience supporting optometrists in optometry practice buy-ins, buy-outs, acquisitions, appraisals, partnerships, and start-ups. Our group has successfully transitioned over 4,000 practices nationwide. We support all phases of the purchase process, many of which are listed below.
Our group has successfully transitioned over 4,000 practices nationwide.
Buyer Registration
If you are interested in learning more about current or future optometry practices listed for sale with VPG, complete the Buyer Registration Form. You will then be entered into our confidential database of prospective buyers, so we know to inform you of any opportunities that meet your needs. The more you elaborate in the form the better we will be able to pair you with good opportunities. Your interest in pursuing practice ownership and any information you provide in the form will remain strictly confidential unless you authorize otherwise.
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Featured Listings
Texas Optometry Practice for Sale – Houston, TX area
Rare opportunity to buy a successful optometry practice in the greater Houston, Texas area, located in one of the highest rated places to live and work in Texas and the US. This private turn-key practice generated revenues over $950,000 in 2023 and is trending toward $1M in 2024. Spacious office with 3-exam lanes. EMR converted with over 44,000 patient files on record. Booking out 1 month and poised for immediate and continued growth. This won’t be on the market too long!
- OD Practice Price: $654,436
- Private Equity Practice Price: $734,283 – $897,457
- 100% Bank Financing Available
- Reference#: #OD489504TX
California Optometry Practice for Sale – Alameda County, CA
Sleek and modern private optometry practice for sale in California. Located in Alameda County, CA, which is ranked the #1 best county to live in California. Strong growth, including 21% uptick from 2022 to 2023. 2023 Gross revenues over $965,000 and discretionary owner income over $355,000. EMR Converted. 2 exam lanes. Recent remodel with new equipment, furnishings, flooring, and more. Excellent online presence. This is as turn-key as it gets!
- OD Practice Price: $732,341
- Private Equity Practice Price: $961,046 – $1,174,612
- 100% Bank Financing Available
- Reference#: #OD489497CA
Wisconsin Optometry Practice for Sale
Wonderful turn-key high gross, high net private optometry practice for sale in Wisconsin. Located in the highly sought after area of Sheboygan County, WI, this practice has strong growth from 2022 to 2023, generating $1.45M in revenue and $400,000 in discretionary net income. Patients booked out 2 months in advance with immediate opportunity for additional growth. EMR converted. Recent remodel and newer equipment. Real estate optional to purchase as well.
- OD Practice Price: $950,677
- Private Equity Price: $1,124,682 – $1,624,540
- Real Estate Price: $610,000
- 100% Bank Financing Available
- Reference#: #OD489500WI
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE
Practice Search
VPG lists optometry practices for sale across the US. Our listings are usually fully appraised and vetted before they become available for sale. If we don’t have a listing that suits your needs, complete our Buyer Registration Form, so we know to inform you when an opportunity arises that would be suitable for you.
Practice Appraisal
Our consulting team will conduct a thorough optometry practice analysis, evaluating all aspects of the business to determine if it is priced correctly and worth pursuing further. By completing a thorough review of the seller’s tax statements, balance sheet, cash flow, P&L statements, production reports, and various other data, we will prepare a valuation report that will not only give you details on the practice’s value but become your benchmark reference for the transaction, financing application, and ongoing analysis after the sale has closed. We will include a cash flow analysis to ascertain what your income will look like after the purchase considering any new debt obligations.
Buyer Negotiations
Using years of direct experience and expertise, our team will represent the optometry practice buyer by mediating negotiations throughout the purchase process. After facilitating the buyer and seller’s agreement on terms, we will prepare a Letter of Intent or Offer and Acceptance Agreement setting forth the agreed purchase price, deposit, conditions of sale, financing terms, due diligence terms, lease terms, seller’s warranties, non-compete terms, accounts receivables handling, closing date, transition terms, and definition of seller’s role in the practice after closing including transition training and/or consultation. VPG assists you, your legal advisor, and account in all aspects of the negotiation process providing the skill and expertise necessary to bring the deal to a mutually beneficial transaction between practice buyer and seller.
Written Offer Letter
This is the process whereby an optometry practice buyer submits a formal written offer to the practice seller. This comes after the buyer has had the opportunity to review general practice information, financial statements, and preferably a third party appraisal. VPG will introduce the buyer to lenders by this point to get a better idea of the buyer’s creditworthiness in relation to being approved for a loan to buy the practice. The written offer is commonly referred to as an Offer & Acceptance Agreement, Letter of Intent, or Term Sheet to name a few. The written offer typically is structured as a “non-binding” agreement stating relevant contingencies such as due diligence term and contingency, satisfactory lease contingency, financing contingency, etc. A buyer’s good faith deposit usually accompanies the offer which is held in escrow by attorney or consultant and often remains fully refundable if any of the offer letter contingencies are not met or satisfactory. In exchange for the written offer and deposit, the Seller usually agrees to make available additional practice information/data requests in order for the buyer to complete due diligence. The seller may also agree not to entertain other written offers while in the due diligence period. When a written offer is signed it signifies that the buyer, seller, and consultants are all on the same page with the intention of moving towards a successful closing. This phase is important in any business purchase transaction because it will be the foundation upon which the final binding agreement (Purchase & Sale Agreement) will be developed, while preventing either from incurring unnecessary legal and consulting costs for a transaction that may have never been possible, to begin with. It is critical to have a well-negotiated and well-drafted written offer. During the offer phase, we support offer negotiations and drafting until the final written offer represents the best interests of our client and ultimately supports a mutually beneficial transaction.
Due Diligence Support
After the Letter of Intent is executed, the optometry practice buyer typically enters a due diligence period in which they can query the seller for the most detailed information about the practice in order to make an educated purchase decision. VPG will request the seller provide the buyer all such necessary information, data and reports needed to complete adequate due diligence. We then help you process and analyze this information while negotiating the final purchase agreement.
Closing the Deal
VPG assists the optometry practice buyer’s team of advisers in finalizing a Purchase Agreement. We work with you, the Seller, and all attorneys and accountants in mediating any issues that may arise between the parties. We apply our experience to facilitate closing the transaction with a minimum amount of controversy between the buyer and seller, thus creating a win-win situation for all parties involved.
Financing
VPG assists the optometry practice buyer in obtaining lender and/or seller financing. We provide you support in preparing all the required documentation requested by the lender of your choice to secure the loan. We can introduce you to a network of commercial lenders, specializing in optometry practice lending to help you secure up to 100% financing including working capital funds.
Legal Representation
We will connect the optometry practice buyer with optometric transaction attorneys, experienced in optometric practice sales so you are not paying for an attorney to learn how to do something for the first time! There many unique elements to an optometric practice sale that are unique to this industry vs. others including other health care practice.
Transition Consulting
VPG helps coordinate the transition of the optometry practice from the seller to buyer, including: when and how to introduce the buyer to the staff and patients, a letter mailed to notify patients of the transition, newspaper announcements and press releases, tips on how to answer the telephone after the closing, and how to ease the buyer comfortably and successfully into the practice.
Management Consulting
After a successful optometry practice purchase, we set ourselves apart by offering continued consultation to help you confidently take your new practice to new heights. After analyzing practice data collected during the practice analysis and due diligence process, we advise you on proven methods to grow and improve the practice you purchased. Additionally, we can guide you seamlessly through business registration and filings, insurance impaneling, business planning, cash flow planning, accounting and bookkeeping, inventory ordering, human resource planning, drafting employee manuals, and anything to help you get off to the right start!
