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    <title>Care Home Valuation in 2026: What Your Home Is Worth and Why</title>
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    <dc:creator>Kevin Stone</dc:creator>
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    <description>UK care homes sell for three to ten times adjusted profit. Where yours sits depends on its CQC rating, occupancy, fee mix, staff and who owns the building.</description>
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    <title>Selling a Home Care Agency in the UK: The Complete Guide for 2026</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Jess Cook</dc:creator>
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    <description>How to sell a home care agency in the UK: what it is worth, who buys, share or asset sale, what happens to your CQC registration, the timeline and what it costs.</description>
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    <title>Selling a Care Home Business in the UK: The Complete Guide for 2026</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Kevin Stone</dc:creator>
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    <description>How to sell a care home business in the UK: what it is worth, freehold or leasehold, who buys, what happens to CQC registration and staff, timeline and tax.</description>
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    <title>What a Home Care Agency Is Worth in 2026, and Who Decides</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>A home care agency sells for two to seven times adjusted profit. Where yours sits depends on your hours, your funding mix, your carers and how much runs through you.</description>
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    <title>What an Aesthetics Clinic Is Worth in 2026, and the Multiples Buyers Pay</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Jess Cook</dc:creator>
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    <description>A UK aesthetics clinic sells for two to six and a half times adjusted earnings, and most owners start from the wrong profit figure. How buyers reach a number.</description>
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    <title>Who Actually Buys a Home Care Agency, and Which of Them Pays Most</title>
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    <description>Five kinds of buyer purchase UK home care agencies, from regional groups to experienced operators. Each pays for something different, and the obvious one rarely pays most.</description>
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    <title>Weight-Loss Injections Are Filling Aesthetics Diaries, and Buyers Will Only Pay for Some of It</title>
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    <description>Weight-loss injections are a second business inside many aesthetics clinics. A buyer pays for the part that would survive an ASA complaint and a CQC inspection.</description>
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    <title>Repeat Treatments Are Worth More Than One-Off Procedures When You Sell Your Clinic</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Jess Cook</dc:creator>
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    <description>An aesthetics clinic earning £300,000 from patients who return every few months can be worth more than one earning £400,000 from one-off procedures. Here is why.</description>
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    <title>If Your Bookings Follow One Practitioner, You Are Selling a Following Rather Than a Clinic</title>
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    <description>If your diary is full because clients book you rather than the clinic, a buyer is purchasing a following. Here is what that costs, and how long the fix takes.</description>
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    <title>Your Registered Manager Is Worth More Than Your Extension</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Kevin Stone</dc:creator>
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    <description>Owners spend on buildings before a sale. Buyers ask one question first: does the manager stay? Here's why your registered manager anchors your price.</description>
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    <title>Licensing Will Split the Aesthetics Market, and Buyers Are Already Choosing Sides</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>No licensing scheme is in force yet, and buyers are already sorting clinics as though it were. Here is what that does to your valuation, and your window.</description>
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    <title>One Care Home, Two Assets: The Freehold Question That Shapes Your Exit</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>A care home sale is really two assets changing hands: the trade and the property. How you package them decides your buyers, your price and your tax bill.</description>
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    <title>The Buyer Who Decides Your Care Home Sale Never Visits the Home</title>
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    <description>Most care home deals are decided by the buyer's lender, not the buyer. Here's how credit committees read your home, and how to prepare for the reader you never meet.</description>
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    <title>The Casey Commission Is Already in Your Care Home's Price</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>Buyers are already pricing social care reform into care home offers while most owners ignore it. Here's how the Casey Commission reaches your valuation early.</description>
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    <title>Buyers Read Your CQC Rating Before They Read Your Accounts</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Kevin Stone</dc:creator>
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    <description>Your CQC rating sets your buyer pool, your buyer's borrowing and your multiple long before anyone opens your accounts. Here's what it really costs, and when to fix it.</description>
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