Do dental practices for sale include the real estate?
Usually not. Most dental practices are sold as a business with a lease assignment. About 6% of the 3,865 practices currently listed on The Dental Practice Market — 232 of them — mention the building or suite being available with the practice. Those carry a "Real Estate Included" badge on the listing.
Practice, or practice plus building
The default is a practice sale with an assignment of the existing lease: you buy the business, the equipment and the patient base, and you step into the seller's lease with the landlord's consent. The building belongs to somebody else and stays that way.
The other case is the seller who owns the suite or the freestanding building, usually through a separate entity. Then there are two transactions running together, often on two different timelines and with two different lenders.
Why lenders treat it differently
A practice loan and a commercial property loan are underwritten differently, amortize over different terms, and can come from different departments of the same bank. Buying both is not simply a bigger version of buying one, and the property side can be the part that sets the closing date.
This site publishes no view on whether either is worth what is being asked. The asking price on a listing is the listing broker's, and it is the only price opinion the site carries.
How to filter for it
The browse page has a "Real Estate Included" toggle, and listings that mention the property carry a badge. As of Nov 14, 2026, 232 of 3,865 listings mention it. Treat that as a search filter rather than a guarantee — whether the property is genuinely part of the deal, and on what terms, is the listing broker's to confirm.
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Counts as of Nov 14, 2026.
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Every listing count on this page is computed from the listings published on The Dental Practice Market and was rebuilt Nov 14, 2026. Descriptions of the buying process are general information, not statistics or advice. Supply-side only: we publish how many practices are listed, where and of what type. We never publish an estimate of what a practice is worth.