funeral home sale

Selling a funeral home: What holds an owner back?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 28, 2023 /
estate agent giving house keys to woman and sign agreement in office

      Back in mid-May Funeral Director Daily published this article entitled “Thinking of an ownership transition? Here’s some straight-forward advice on getting started”.  It was an article predicated on advice from the folks at accounting and business strategy experts Clifton Larson Allen (CLA).   We recently noticed another article from the people at…

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Anthem Partners acquires funeral homes in the San Joaquin Valley

By Funeral Director Daily / December 27, 2022 /

  Anthem Partners, the privately-held operator of funeral homes and cemeteries, announced via press release last week that it had acquired a business that operated three funeral homes in the San Joaquin Valley area of California.  That funeral business was Sterling & Smith Funeral Directors, Inc.  The company has owned and operated facilities in Fresno,…

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Are funeral home’s values getting hit with a “Double Whammy”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 16, 2022 /

A sale, or commerce if you will, occurs when a willing buyer and a willing seller reach agreement on a price for a good or service and then that price is paid from the buyer to the seller to mark the transaction.  While we don’t always think of it in that term, transactions like this…

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Foundation Partners adds New Mexico locations

By Funeral Director Daily / January 13, 2021 /

It didn’t take long into 2021 to hear of news on the acquisition front.  This press release will tell you of the Foundation Partners Group (FPG) acquisition of three funeral homes in New Mexico. According to the press release the company acquired the Riverside Funeral Homes located in Albuquerque, Los Lunas, and Santa Fe, New…

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Do the Diligence. . . a cautionary tale

By Funeral Director Daily / February 25, 2020 /

Even before Robert Waltrip bought that second location in Houston in the early 1960’s there were lots of funeral homes that changed hands.  And, I’m guessing that over the years about 99% of those business transactions, especially the transferring of a funeral home to a new owner in a small community, went off without a…

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