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Buy a hair or beauty salon in the UK
Small, young and largely debt-free: five staff on average, ten years trading, and fewer than one in five carrying a charge.
- 1,663companies you can search
- 100%trade from premises traceable to HM Land Registry
- 5employees on average
- 10years trading on average
- 17%have a charge outstanding
Figures read from the register data as at 20 August 2026.
How these companies are identified
Salons appear here when they declare hair or beauty activity to Companies House and the company owns its premises. No licence is claimed; local authority treatment licensing is not on any register we carry.
Why buyers look here
Owning the premises is rare in this trade, so this is a deliberately narrow slice: salons with a freehold rather than a high-street lease. Low debt makes the balance sheet simple.
What to check
- Stylists often own their client relationships. A sale without them may transfer very little.
- Chair rental rather than employment is common, so headcount understates the people on site.
- Local authority licensing for some treatments exists but is not held here.
- Ten years average trading: many have never changed hands.
How to search
Choose Hair and beauty on the search screen and narrow by town, how long the business has traded, how ownership is held, and whether the premises are traceable. Searching is free and shows the shape of each company without naming it. A report on one company costs from £4.90.
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