Buy a School | Schools for Sale | Sell a School | Selling a Nursery

To Buy a school

Whether you are a private buyer or you are representing a company, trust or a group of investors considering buying an educational business – a school, college, nursery, Sixth form college, International College, university or campus – start by speaking to Peers Carter or anyone at The School Transfer Company (STC).

Our team will work with you in a friendly and constructive way to buy a school or schools (or any other educational business) which fits your brief, budget and profile.

Schools for sale

STC always has a very wide range of schools for sale and educational businesses for sale not only in the UK and Europe but worldwide.

We have a very careful and discreet method of handling all educational sales and we rely on trust between school buyers, school sellers and The School Transfer Company to preserve the confidentiality of each deal and so preserve the value of the educational business to the benefit of all – including pupils, staff and parents. STC has a long track record of satisfaction from both buyers and sellers; see the testimonials on this website.

School for sale

If you are thinking of selling your school, or indeed selling any educational business or selling a nursery, you can speak in total confidence to STC, The School Transfer Company. Everything you say to us will be completely confidential. Ask us anything you like. If you do not want to tell us your name, the identity of the school or even which country you are in we shall quite accept that. We are happy to send our Vendors’ Pack (or Buyers’ Pack) by email.

Sell a school

If you do decide you would like STC to help and handle you to sell a school, here’s how we would proceed. First, we would send you a list of information which we shall need in order to represent every aspect of your business fully, honestly and accurately. We shall also send our terms of business which vary depend on the size of your enterprise and where in the world it is situated.

Having studied this information, spoken to you at length and established email correspondence (always using a private phone line, email or address) we would discuss price, timing and the ideal profile of buyers you seek. If time and budget allows – and whenever feasible – we shall visit you discreetly at your school in order to discuss the sale personally and understand your educational business and its environment.

How The School Transfer Company sells schools

STC handles the sale of educational businesses with great care. If you are a vendor, you will always know about each and every individual recommended buyer before they know anything at all about you. It will always be your decision – with our advice – whether or not to proceed with any buyer. No specific information will be given to any buyer about any business without the vendor’s specific approval, unless the vendor gives us carte blanche to use our own judgment. STC prefers to clear every buyer with every vendor so that competitors or researchers do not get to know anything they shouldn’t. this protects your business and the value of your sale.

Selling a nursery or buying a large nursery or group.

The School Transfer Company usually only sells larger nurseries or groups of nurseries. We have a wide range of group buyers and investors in the UK. We also sell nurseries in Europe: most commonly in Spain. We are always happy to offer a reasonable amount of free advice when selling a nursery to nursery sellers and nursery buyers.

It is often a wise move to acquire or open a nursery or nursery school as a useful service and a feeder to independent preparatory of independent primary schools.