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Specialized Education Business Broker

Thinking of Selling Your Childcare or Education Business?

Edugrow sells childcare centres, preschools, tuition, enrichment and student care businesses in Singapore confidentially, to vetted operators and investors. A typical sale takes 4 to 9 months from mandate to completion, your business is marketed under an anonymous code until a buyer signs an NDA, and Edugrow has advised on 70+ education business transactions since 2014.

  • 21
    childcare centres sold or taken over in 24 months
    The Straits Times
  • 70+
    education deals since 2014
    Edugrow
  • 4 to 9
    months from mandate to completion
    Typical sale

Maximize Your Valuation

Our deep market knowledge and extensive network of buyers ensure you achieve the best possible price when you sell childcare businesses.

Confidential & Discreet Process

We handle every step with the utmost confidentiality to protect your staff, students, and legacy throughout the takeover.

Find the Right Successor

We connect you with qualified and vetted buyers to ensure a smooth transition for all parties involved in the education business sale.

Start a Confidential Conversation

Your first conversation is free and 100% confidential. Success fee on the sale, no retainer.

Goes straight to Benjamin Tan. Never shared, sold or published.

Prefer WhatsApp? Message Ben on +65 8088 1201

Not ready to talk yet? Start with one of our tools
What could your business sell for?Try the valuation calculator Is it ready to sell?Take the exit-readiness check

Your Sale, Month by Month

Indicative timings for a typical sale, which takes 4 to 9 months from mandate to completion.

  1. Month 0

    A confidential first conversation

    Your goals, your timeline and the business. The conversation is free and commits you to nothing.

  2. Month 0 to 1

    Written valuation

    A fixed-fee written valuation setting out what buyers will pay and why. It is credited in full against our success fee if you sell with us within 6 months.

  3. Month 1

    Marketed under an anonymous code

    An information memorandum is prepared and the business is listed under a code, never its name. Buyers sign an NDA before they see anything that identifies it.

  4. Months 1 to 4

    Buyers, viewings and offers

    We qualify buyers, arrange viewings and negotiate price and structure through to an agreed letter of intent.

  5. Months 3 to 8

    Due diligence and approvals

    The buyer checks the accounts, lease and licence while ECDA and landlord approvals are obtained. Parents and ECDA get written notice: at least 1 month before a change of key appointment holders, or 3 months before a licence transfer.

  6. Months 4 to 9

    Completion

    The sale and purchase agreement is signed and ownership transfers. Our success fee is due only on completion, with no retainer.

Every Type of Education Business

How we sell each kind of business, and the guides owners read first.

Childcare and preschools

ECDA-licensed centres, including infant care.

Sell your childcare centre

Tuition centres

Academic tuition across primary, secondary and JC levels.

Sell your tuition centre

Enrichment centres

Art, music, STEM, speech and drama, and licensed curricula.

Sell your enrichment centre

Student care centres

Standalone or run alongside a childcare centre.

Sell your student care centre

More in our selling guides and ECDA and licensing guides.

The Straits Times
“A large group of founder-operators opened their centres in the 2000s when the Government was pushing hard for more childcare capacity. Many of them are now in their 50s and 60s, their children have built careers elsewhere, and without anyone to take over, a sale is the only exit available to them.”
Benjamin Tan, Founder, Edugrow.sg, in The Straits Times, 27 October 2026
21

Childcare centres sold or taken over through Edugrow in the past 24 months, as reported by The Straits Times. Read the article

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about selling your education business with Edugrow.

The typical timeline is 4 to 9 months from mandate to completion. This includes valuation, buyer matching, NDA execution, due diligence, LOI, SPA, and ECDA regulatory approval. Complex deals or those involving lease novation can take longer.

Not until you are ready. Edugrow runs every sale confidentially: buyers sign NDAs before receiving any information, and listings use an anonymous code, never the centre name. Once a deal is agreed, ECDA's rules do require written notice to parents and ECDA before the change takes effect: at least 1 month before a change of key appointment holders such as directors (a share sale), or at least 3 months before a transfer of licence (a sale to a new entity). We plan with you when and how parents and staff are told.

Edugrow uses a combination of EBITDA multiples, enrolment levels, lease terms, location, regulatory standing, and recent comparable transactions. We have 12+ years of Singapore education M&A data to benchmark your centre accurately.

Success fee on the sale, no retainer. Your written valuation is a fixed fee, credited in full against our success fee if you sell with us within 6 months. The first conversation and our written recommendation are free.

It depends, Edugrow is able to draft a neutral Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) that is fair for both parties. In the event lawyers are involved, we can help coordinate between parties to keep the deal on track.

Staff transfer arrangements are negotiated as part of the deal. Most buyers retain existing staff, especially qualified teachers and key operations personnel.

ECDA approval is required for any change of ownership of a childcare centre licensed under the Early Childhood Development Centres Act. Edugrow guides both parties through this process.