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Buyer Representation · Practice Brokerage

Buy or sell a dental practice with a broker who was a lender first

Name: Southeast Dental Transitions
Address: Jacksonville Beach, FL, US
Telephone: (904) 234-0516

Most brokers are former dentists. Clay Churchill spent his career financing dental deals, more than $500 million of them, and can value a practice from its tax returns in about ten minutes.

Buy a Practice

Sell a Practice

$500M+ financed in dental loans

Since 2010 in dental lending

Florida & the Southeast where we know the market

We help dentists buy and sell practices across the Southeast

Independent Valuations

From tax returns, not rules of thumb

Lender Relationships

Direct lines to dental-specific lenders

One Point of Contact

Clay runs the deal from first call to closing

Complete Confidentiality

Staff and patients hear it when you are ready

Southeast Dental Transitions is a full-service dental practice brokerage based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. We represent dentists on both sides of a transition, whether you are selling the practice you spent a career building or buying your first one.

Clay Churchill spent more than a decade financing dental practices before he ever brokered one.

Most brokers are former dentists, with strong clinical judgment and untested financial judgment. That background is the difference. It is why we can value a practice from its tax returns, tell you early whether a deal will clear underwriting, and structure financing that supports the practice rather than straining it.

Every engagement starts with a conversation rather than a listing agreement. We would rather tell you honestly that this is not the right year to sell than move a transaction forward that does not serve you.

How Buyer Representation Works

Meet Our Founder

Where would you like to start?

Buyers, sellers, and dentists who are only weighing the idea all arrive here from different places. Find the one that sounds like you.

I am ready to buy a practice

Independent representation from the first showing through closing, for a flat $6,000.

How It Works

Show me what is available

Current listings across Florida and the Southeast, with status kept current as deals move.

View Practices

I am thinking about selling

Valuation, marketing, and a vetted successor, handled quietly from start to close.

Selling a Practice

What is my practice worth?

A defensible number built from your financials, whether or not you decide to sell this year.

Practice Valuation

Will a bank approve me?

Loan options, deal structure, and introductions to lenders who understand dental cash flow.

Dental Financing

I am still a few years out

Practices sell for more when the groundwork starts early. Ask what is worth fixing now.

Ask a Question

How a transition actually works

Every deal is different, but the sequence rarely is. Here is what the process looks like, from the first call to the day the practice changes hands.
Talk Through Your Situation
The scoping call

What you are looking for, what you can realistically carry, and whether this is the right year to move at all. Usually about thirty minutes, and there is nothing to sign.
The analysis

We pull the practice performance reports and work through the returns line by line. You get a number, and more importantly the reasoning behind it.
The lender package

Your file goes to lenders who actually work in dental. They come back with real terms instead of estimates, and we compare them properly.
The negotiation

Purchase price, lease, real estate, and the transition period. This is the stage where most of the value in a deal is won or lost.
Closing and handover

Attorneys, CPAs, credentialing, and lender timelines kept moving by one person, so the practice keeps running while it changes hands.

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The practice you built deserves the right successor

For most dentists, selling is not really a financial decision. You are handing over patients you have treated for twenty years and a team who helped build the place. That deserves more thought than a listing and an asking price.

The buyer who offers the most is not always the one who can close. Financing falls through, and a poor fit unsettles the staff and patients you spent a career keeping. We check both before a practice ever goes under contract.

The best outcomes start early. A practice prepared two or three years ahead sells for materially more than one brought to market in a hurry, and the work involved is usually smaller than owners expect.

Selling a Practice

What Is It Worth?

Every deal starts with a number

Send over a tax return and we will tell you what the practice is worth and whether a bank will finance it. The first read costs nothing.

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You are buying the building as much as the practice

Most practice transitions involve a building as well as a business, and the property terms often matter more over ten years than the purchase price does.

Through Signature Commercial Real Estate, our affiliated brokerage, we advise on the property side of the same transaction. Whether to buy the building or lease it, what the lease should actually say, and what the space is worth on its own.

It is the part of a deal most often rushed. A good purchase price paired with a bad twenty-year lease is not a good outcome, and it usually only becomes obvious years later.

Talk About the Property

Southeast Dental Transitions by the Numbers

Every practice we take on is valued, photographed and marketed by the same person who answers your first call. The numbers are modest on purpose, because none of the work is handed off.

See Current Listings

Practices brought to market

Client reviews on Google, from buyers and sellers

Founded in Jacksonville Beach, Florida

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Frequently Asked Questions

The questions that come up most often, usually in the first ten minutes of a call.

Read All FAQs

How do you get paid?

Two different ways, depending on which side of the deal you are on. Sellers pay a commission when the practice actually sells, so nothing is owed while it sits on the market. Buyers pay a flat $6,000, half at the start and half at closing, no matter how large the transaction turns out to be. We will tell you exactly which applies to you on the first call.

Do I have to list with you to find out what my practice is worth?

No. Plenty of the valuations we run are for owners who are three or four years from selling and simply want to know where they stand. There is no obligation to list afterwards, and knowing the number early is usually what allows you to improve it.

I have already found a practice I want to buy. Can you still help?

Yes, and this is one of the more useful moments to bring us in. We can value the practice independently of whatever the listing broker is telling you, pressure test the financials, arrange the financing, and negotiate the purchase and lease terms on your behalf. You do not need to have found us first.

What happens to my staff and patients after the sale?

That depends heavily on the buyer, which is exactly why we vet them. Most transitions include a handover period where the seller stays on for a while to introduce patients and steady the team. We plan that period as part of the deal rather than leaving it to be worked out afterwards.

How long does a transition usually take?

For a sale, anywhere from six months to a couple of years, driven mostly by how prepared the practice is and how quickly the right buyer appears. For a purchase, the limiting factor is normally financing and credentialing rather than the negotiation itself.

Do you only work in Florida?

Our listings and our market knowledge are concentrated in Florida and the wider Southeast, which is where we can genuinely tell you what a practice is worth. Buyer representation is handled remotely by phone and video, so we can work with you on a practice wherever it happens to be.

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