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What's your childcare center worth?

Get an instant, directional value range for your childcare real estate, the operating business, or both together — in under a minute. Built on the same SDE and cap-rate methodology, and the 592 sold comps, we use for real clients.

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RE

Real Estate only

NNN / net-leased building. Value the property, not the business.

B

Business only

The operating center (you lease the space or sell the business alone).

B+RE

Business + Real Estate

You own both and would sell them together as a package.

Real estate (net-leased)

We value the property on its net operating income (NOI) and a market cap rate.
Where's the center? Tailors your estimate to the local market — kept strictly confidential.
Recalibrates to your state's market — high-barrier states (CA, NY, MA…) trade at premium (lower) cap rates; rural states trade wider.
High-barrier coastal states and dense urban markets trade at premium (lower) cap rates; secondary and rural markets trade wider.
Annual base rent the tenant pays, net of taxes/insurance/maintenance (true NNN).
Median childcare rent in our comps is about $25/SF.

Operating business

Childcare businesses are valued on a multiple of adjusted earnings (SDE) — earnings after adding back owner-specific expenses.
Where's the center? Tailors your estimate to the local market — kept strictly confidential.
SDE = net profit + owner's salary & perks + one-time/non-recurring costs + interest/depreciation.
Adjusted SDE: —
SDE normalizes earnings to what a new owner-operator would actually take home — the basis buyers use to price a childcare business.
If you own your building rent-free (or below market), your P&L overstates what a business-only buyer keeps — because they'll pay you market rent after closing. Enter that market rent and we'll subtract it so the earnings reflect a true business-only sale. Leave blank if rent is already in your P&L.
Used to sanity-check earnings (childcare SDE typically runs 12–22% of revenue) and as a secondary multiple cross-check.

Business + Real Estate

We value the business on a fair-market rent (so earnings aren't inflated by owning the building rent-free), then value the real estate on that same rent — and add them together. This avoids double-counting.
Where's the center? Tailors your estimate to the local market — kept strictly confidential.
Adjusted earnings before any building rent. We subtract a fair-market rent below so the business and real estate aren't double-counted.
Earnings before rent: —
Enter earnings before building rent — add back any rent your books already expense. We then charge a fair-market rent below.
Or enter total rent directly: