Right now, 323 dental practices are publicly for sale and have been sitting for more than six months. 203 of them for more than a year.
Every one of those owners decided it was time. The ones still listed are not getting a lower price. They are getting no price at all.
We cannot tell you why any particular practice is still sitting. We can tell you what buyers price hardest in a practice like yours, and whether you still have time to change it. That is what the ten questions below are for. About four minutes, no charge, and nothing is sent to you unless you ask.
One dot is one advertised practice, placed by how long it has been on the market. Drag across to move the line.
So where would yours sit?
These are the things buyers actually diligence, in the order they matter. Nothing is stored unless you ask us to send the brief, and there is no field for your practice name.
How we count, and the one number we will not publish
Sources do not agree on what a posted date means, and the disagreement is large enough to change any average built on top of it. Below is the evidence, taken from the listings on our own board that carry a genuine stated list date.
| Source | Listings | Median days listed | Over a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dentaltown Classifieds | 842 | 14 | 0% |
| PracticeFinder | 449 | 292 | 43% |
| DDSmatch | 60 | 13 | 0% |
| Professional Transition Strategies | 60 | 80 | 0% |
| Colorado Dental Association | 54 | 20 | 2% |
| Menlo Dental Transitions | 40 | 180 | 10% |
| Michigan Dental Association | 34 | 30 | 0% |
Dentaltown classifieds renew on a short cycle and the posted date resets with them, so nothing on that source can appear to be more than a few weeks old. Broker sites that keep the original list date show practices that have been advertised for years. Put the two together and the median tells you which sources happened to be busy that month, not how long practices take to sell.
So we do not publish a median or an average time on market, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. We publish counts of listings whose own stated date puts them past a threshold. Every practice in that count really has been advertised that long, and the ones hidden by a renewal reset can only push the number up. For the same reason the aged counts are national: per state they would measure which sources cover that state rather than what is happening in it. The scale on the plot is logarithmic, because the tail runs to ten years and a linear axis would hide it.