Nursing Agency For Sale Essex | Healthcare Businesses for Sale Essex, London, East Anglia
Axis Partnership is a specialist business broker with a wide range of health care businesses for sale in Essex, as well as East Anglia, London, the Home Counties and elsewhere in the UK. We specialise in the sale of all types of health care businesses. So whether you are looking for a live in care agency, facilities specialising in learning disabilities, a domiciliary care agency or a nursing agency for sale, Axis are more than likely to have what you are looking for – or are well placed to help you find a healthcare business to match your requirements.
Essex is a large county, so a nursing agency for sale in Essex may well cater for clients in London to the south, in Suffolk to the north or in neighbouring Home Counties to the west. So when searching for a nursing agency for sale in Essex it is well worth also considering other agencies in these surrounding areas, especially north and east London, Kent, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.
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Types of Healthcare Businesses for Sale in Essex
There are many types of privately run healthcare businesses for sale in Essex, so it is helpful to understand some of the key features of these different businesses to ensure a good match with your existing experience, skill base and your intended client base.
Most healthcare businesses fall into one of the following categories:
Nursing Agency – providing qualified nursing or other medically trained staff for temporary contracts, either to private individuals or to organisations such as hospitals and care homes.
Domiciliary Care Agency – providing carers, to help clients within their own homes. Carers are usually non-medical, assisting clients with general living tasks such as washing, dressing, preparing meals and so on, and may attend for half an hour up to several hours per day.
Live In Care Agency – providing carers who will live in the client’s home and provide a higher level of living assistance.
Residential Care Home – providing accommodation combined with medical or other specialist care for a number of people within the same building. Many residential care homes provide care for the elderly, but a residential care home may provide specialist care for a variety of other age groups or conditions, such as learning disabilities or mental health issues.
Some agencies have expanded or combined so that they may provide more than one of the above services. For instance, an agency may provide a particular client with medical nursing care immediately following an operation, but then replace it with domiciliary care as the client’s medical needs diminish.
Other healthcare businesses may provide auxiliary services such as an ambulance service.
Here are just a few examples of the healthcare businesses for sale in Essex and immediate surrounding region that were available at the time of writing.
Essex – Adult Learning Disability Care Home – Turnover c£170k – Profit c£150k.
Suffolk – EMI Residential Home – Turnover c£850k – Profit c£95k.
Cambridgeshire – Residential Care Home.
London – Specialist Domiciliary & Nursing Agency – Turnover c£1.5m – Profit c£480k.
East Anglia – Professional Private Ambulance Service – Turnover c£375k – Profit c£120k.
To see all the healthcare businesses for sale in Essex and other areas currently on our books, click here.
Buying a Healthcare Business in Essex
If you are considering healthcare businesses for sale, Essex offers a great deal of variety in terms of physical environment as well as typical client base.
To the south, Essex borders London and the M25. To the east, Essex includes a large stretch of coastline incorporating several popular seaside destinations such as Southend-on-Sea, Clacton and Frinton, as well as the important international ports of Harwich and Tilbury. To the north, Essex shares a border with Suffolk, linking the county to the rest of East Anglia. And to the west lies Cambridgeshire, linking Essex to the Midlands and the South West.
So, the prospective Essex healthcare business owner can choose between quiet coastal locations such as Leigh on Sea or Walton on the Naze, busy town locations such as Colchester, Chelmsford, Braintree, Basildon and Harlow, London outskirts such as Ilford, Romford and Brentwood, or smaller towns in more rural areas such as Ingatestone, Great Dunmow and Saffron Walden. A nursing agency for sale in Essex could choose to focus on the fairly large retiree population on the Essex coast, or on the large populations of all ages in Basildon, Chelmsford, Colchester and elsewhere. Alternatively, a nursing agency for sale in Essex may have chosen an Essex location as a low-cost headquarters from which to service a primarily London clientele such as the many London residential care homes or hospitals. So it is important to look not just at where the business is physically located, but its current client base.
The railway line from Liverpool Street runs through Chelmsford, Witham and Colchester and on to Ipswich in Suffolk, so a nursing agency based in one of these towns would be well placed to serve both London, Essex and Suffolk clients. Alternatively, an Essex nursing agency located close to the M11 to the west would be in a good position to serve both London and Cambridgeshire.
Other Businesses for Sale Essex
If you are looking for investment opportunities in Essex, healthcare is just one of several key sectors in which Axis are actively involved. There are many other types of businesses based in Essex, all benefiting from the excellent road and rail links into London and the rest of the UK, the large population with higher than average earnings, and property prices which are significantly more affordable than London.
Recruitment companies, for instance, are highly active in Essex, serving a large workforce seeking employment in the London area.
Commercial cleaning companies are attracted by the generally high numbers of office and commercial premises requiring regular cleaning throughout London and Essex.
Essex is also a prime location for logistics businesses of all types, being close to London and the eastern ports, and well linked to the North, Midlands and West by road.
Property management businesses have a huge property base to work with, both residential and commercial, with strong rental markets and an ongoing requirement for management of office and apartment blocks throughout the London/Essex area.
Service businesses of all kinds find Essex a good base with a plentiful supply of both business and residential customers.
And any business requiring either plentiful labour or specialist skills, such as packaging, manufacturing and engineering, will find Essex provides a large but also skilled workforce.
While wages tend to be somewhat higher in Essex and throughout the South East, many businesses find this cost is offset by the volume of work available.
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