Business valuations in Brisbane
We are Brisbane-based business valuers with an office at 4/144 Edward Street in the CBD, preparing independent, court-ready valuations for businesses across the Brisbane local government area.
Brisbane has the deepest and most diverse SME base in Queensland — professional services in the CBD, medical practices around Herston and Spring Hill, technology in Fortitude Valley and Newstead, and logistics and manufacturing through Australia TradeCoast. Each of those valued well requires a different primary method.
The local business base
The most diverse SME base in Queensland
Brisbane’s business population spans the professional services concentrated in the CBD and Milton, the medical and allied health precincts around Herston, Spring Hill and Chermside, the technology and creative cluster through Fortitude Valley, Newstead and South Brisbane, and the industrial and logistics belt running from Eagle Farm and Northgate out through Australia TradeCoast to the Port of Brisbane.
That diversity is why we do not run a single template. A CBD consulting firm is valued on capitalised earnings with a heavy focus on fee-earner depth; a Northgate distribution business is valued on earnings with a plant and equipment schedule underneath it; a Valley software business may need a discounted cash flow because its contracted revenue base bears no resemblance to its three-year history.
Business centres we work across
- Brisbane CBD
- Fortitude Valley
- Newstead
- Milton
- South Brisbane
- Herston
- Chermside
- Eagle Farm
- Northgate
- Australia TradeCoast
- Mount Gravatt
- Indooroopilly
What we are most often asked to value here
- CBD professional practices — legal, accounting, engineering and consulting
- Medical, dental and allied health practices across the northside precincts
- Software and managed services businesses in the Valley and Newstead
- Distribution, freight and light manufacturing through TradeCoast
- Family law property settlements involving a trading company and an asset-holding trust
The numbers
Multiples for the main sectors in Brisbane
Indicative EBITDA multiples for the sectors that dominate this area. Ranges are national; the local note explains what tends to move a Brisbane business within its band.
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| Sector | Multiple | Local note |
|---|---|---|
| Professional services | 2.5×–4.0× | CBD firms live or die on fee-earner depth below the principals |
| Healthcare & medical | 3.0×–5.0× | Service agreements with associate practitioners are the key document |
| IT, SaaS & digital | 4.0×–7.5× | Valley and Newstead businesses split sharply between recurring and project revenue |
| Construction | 2.0×–3.5× | WIP and retention treatment drives the number more than reported profit |
| Transport & logistics | 2.5×–4.0× | TradeCoast operators need fleet netted against chattel mortgages |
| Hospitality & retail | 1.8×–3.0× | CBD and Valley leases with short remaining term discount heavily |
Orientation only, not a valuation. See all fourteen sectors or run the value range calculator.
Local factors
What is specific about valuing a Brisbane business
Competition for staff sets the add-back
Brisbane salary benchmarks for a replacement manager have moved materially in recent years, particularly in professional services and trades. A normalisation using an out-of-date market salary understates the add-back and overstates the earnings.
CBD leases carry real value or real risk
For any business whose earnings depend on its address — hospitality, retail, clinical practice — the remaining lease term and option structure is valued as directly as the profit. Two years remaining is a discount, not a detail.
Court and ATO work is local
The Federal Circuit and Family Court registry is at 119 North Quay and the Supreme and District Courts are in the CBD. For single expert appointments, attendance and conferral are straightforward from our Edward Street office.
Working with us from Brisbane
How an engagement in Brisbane runs
Most Brisbane engagements complete without a site visit — records travel electronically and the analysis happens at our desk. Where a business holds significant plant, stock or property, we attend, and being in the CBD means that usually happens within a day or two of asking.
Our valuation office is at 4/144 Edward Street, Brisbane City. We do not maintain a shopfront in every location we serve — a valuation is not a service that benefits from one, and pretending otherwise would be the first thing an opposing expert questioned.
Book a free scoping call →- Free scoping call Fifteen minutes to establish the purpose, the standard of value, the entities involved and your deadline. You get a fixed fee in writing the same day.
- Records sent electronically Financial statements, tax returns, management accounts, the asset register and contracts. One consolidated request, not a drip feed.
- Site attendance where it matters For Brisbane businesses we can typically attend within a day or two. Plant, equipment, stock and property are inspected and valued in-house by a Certified Asset Valuer rather than taken at book value.
- Report and debrief The signed valuation, then a call to walk through the conclusion, the assumptions, and what would change the number.
Local questions
Valuing a business in Brisbane
General questions on cost, timing and documents are on the full FAQ page.
Ask a valuerYes. Our valuation office is at 4/144 Edward Street, Brisbane City QLD 4000, a short walk from Queen Street Mall and Central Station. Clients are welcome by appointment, and many prefer to walk through a draft report in person rather than over a call.
Fees are fixed and quoted in writing before work starts. An indicative assessment sits in the low four figures, a formal report for an established Brisbane SME sits in the mid four figures, and multi-entity or court-appointed engagements move into five figures. The fee never depends on the value concluded.
Yes. We accept single expert and shadow expert appointments and attend the Federal Circuit and Family Court registry at 119 North Quay, and the Supreme and District Courts in the CBD. Our lead valuer has extensive experience giving expert evidence.
Usually within one to two business days for CBD and inner-Brisbane businesses. Site attendance is only needed where the business holds significant plant, stock or property — most professional services engagements never require one.
Yes, across the whole Brisbane City Council area and the surrounding local government areas — Logan, Ipswich, Redland, Moreton Bay — as well as the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba.
Reviewed by a Certified Practising Valuer
Reviewed by Jarrad Khoury, Director and Head of Valuations — Registered Valuer (QLD, Not Limited), Licensed Valuer (WA, Not Limited), CPV and CBV. Published by Business Valuations Brisbane, the business valuation division of Asset Valuations Group.
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