The Definitive Resource for Buying a Funeral Home
Valuation frameworks, financing playbooks, and due diligence checklists for serious acquirers.
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Cornerstone Guides
The Complete Guide to Buying a Funeral Home
An end-to-end walkthrough of the acquisition process, from initial research to closing day.
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Funeral Home Valuation: What a Business Is Actually Worth
Revenue multiples, asset approaches, and the intangible factors that move deal prices.
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Financing Your Acquisition: SBA, Seller Notes, and Beyond
Every financing path available to funeral home buyers, decoded for non-experts.
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Due Diligence Checklist: What to Inspect Before You Sign
The financial, legal, operational, and reputational checks that protect your investment.
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The Death Care Industry: Market Landscape for Buyers
Demographics, consolidation trends, and what the numbers actually say about the opportunity.
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Competing with Private Equity
How individual buyers can win deals against well-funded PE firms.
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Tax Strategy for Acquisitions
Structure the deal to maximize after-tax returns for decades.
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The 1099 Trap: Employee Misclassification Risk You Inherit When Buying a Funeral Home
Many funeral homes classify embalmers, removal drivers, and on-call staff as 1099 contractors. Under the ABC test, most of these arrangements fail — and the buyer inherits the liability.
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The Millennial Arranging Generation: How the New Decision-Makers Are Changing What Funeral Homes Need to Offer
Millennials are now the primary generation arranging funerals. 85% research online first, demand transparent pricing, and expect digital-first communication.
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When Your Competitor Becomes a Platform: What Foundation Partners’ Afterall Means for Independent Funeral Homes
FPG launched Afterall — a consumer discovery platform aggregating 250+ funeral homes. Here’s what platform competition means for your acquisition thesis.
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Adding a Crematory: When Owning the Retort Makes Financial Sense
Full cost breakdown ($200K–$700K), volume thresholds, permitting timeline, and a five-test decision framework for building vs. outsourcing.
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Preneed Trust Escheatment: The State-by-State Time Bomb Hiding in Aging Preneed Books
States can seize preneed trust funds through unclaimed property laws. Here’s how to identify and quantify escheatment exposure before you buy.
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The Gen Z Burial Reversal: Why the Cremation Trajectory Isn’t as Certain as Your Pro Forma Assumes
NFDA data shows Gen Z prefers burial over cremation at 52% vs 38%. Here’s why that should change how you model your funeral home acquisition.
Read guide →The Acquisition Opportunity
The vast majority of U.S. funeral homes remain independently owned, creating a fragmented acquisition market.
Median annual revenue for a single-location funeral home with 150+ cases per year.
Three-quarters of funeral home owners are over 55, many without a succession plan.
Over 19,000 funeral homes operate in the U.S., the majority serving communities under 50,000.
Built for Buyers, Not Brokers
If you've spent any time researching funeral home acquisitions, you've noticed a pattern: the information that exists is either produced by brokers who want to sell you a listing, consultants who want to sell you their services, or industry associations writing for existing operators. There is no independent resource built specifically for the buyer.
Funeral Home Buyer exists to fill that gap. Our editorial philosophy is simple: no sales, no sponsored content, no affiliate arrangements. Every piece of analysis is written to serve one interest — yours.
The standard we hold ourselves to is definitive coverage. That means verifiable data and analysis written from the buyer's perspective — not repackaged conventional wisdom.
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