Business valuations in Melbourne and Victoria
We prepare independent business valuations for Melbourne and Victorian clients, with a director covering VIC and NSW and site attendance arranged where plant, stock or property need inspection.
Victoria has the largest manufacturing base in the country and a professional services and health sector to match. Both are valued on the same national framework we apply everywhere — the difference is in the evidence available and the cost structures being normalised, not in the method.
The local business base
Manufacturing depth and a broad services base
Melbourne carries Australia’s largest manufacturing and food production base across the northern and western industrial corridors, a deep professional and financial services sector in the CBD and inner east, substantial health and education institutions, and a logistics network built around the port and the Hume and Princes corridors. Regional Victoria adds significant agriculture and food processing.
For valuation, Victoria is where dual-method work is most often required. Manufacturers and food processors carry plant that materially exceeds its written-down value, so an earnings valuation with a rigorous net asset cross-check — and a plant schedule someone actually inspected — is the standard rather than the exception.
Business centres we work across
- Melbourne CBD
- South Melbourne
- Richmond
- Dandenong
- Clayton
- Campbellfield
- Truganina
- Laverton North
- Box Hill
- Moorabbin
- Geelong
- Ballarat
What we are most often asked to value here
- Manufacturing, food production and industrial businesses
- Professional services, agency and consulting practices
- Medical, dental and allied health practices and groups
- Wholesale, import and distribution operations
- Family law, shareholder dispute and ATO valuations
The numbers
Multiples for the main sectors in Melbourne
Indicative EBITDA multiples for the sectors that dominate this area. Ranges are national; the local note explains what tends to move a Melbourne business within its band.
Scroll the table sideways →
| Sector | Multiple | Local note |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 3.0×–4.5× | Deepest manufacturing market in Australia; plant schedule is decisive |
| Professional services | 2.5×–4.0× | Fee-earner depth and retention set the band |
| Healthcare & medical | 3.0×–5.0× | Group and corporate buyers active across the metropolitan area |
| Transport & logistics | 2.5×–4.0× | Port and interstate corridors; fleet netted against finance |
| eCommerce | 2.5×–4.5× | Owned demand versus paid acquisition; stock aged and valued |
| Agribusiness | 2.5×–4.0× | Regional Victoria; land, water and business valued separately |
Orientation only, not a valuation. See all fourteen sectors or run the value range calculator.
Local factors
How a Melbourne engagement works
Plant valued, not booked
In a manufacturing-heavy market this is the difference that matters most. Plant, equipment and fit-out are inspected and valued at market by a Certified Asset Valuer within the same engagement rather than taken from a depreciation register.
A director covering the southern states
Victorian and New South Wales engagements are handled by a director of the practice, with attendance arranged where inspection is required and travel quoted inside the fixed fee.
National frameworks, national acceptance
Reports are signed by Certified Practising Valuers of the Australian Valuers Institute, prepared to ATO market value substantiation guidance and to Federal Circuit and Family Court expert evidence rules.
Working with us from Melbourne
How an engagement in Melbourne runs
Melbourne and Victorian engagements run remotely by default, with documents exchanged securely and calls at your convenience. Where plant, stock or property must be inspected, attendance is arranged and included in the fixed fee.
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 Victorian engagements run remotely by default. Where plant, stock or property must be inspected, attendance is arranged and travel is quoted inside the fixed fee.
- 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 Melbourne
General questions on cost, timing and documents are on the full FAQ page.
Ask a valuerYes. The analysis is document-driven, our accreditations are national, and a director of the practice covers VIC and NSW. Whether a report is accepted turns on the valuer’s accreditation, independence and reasoning — none of which are geographic.
Yes, where plant forms a material part of value, which in Victorian manufacturing it usually does. Inspection and market valuation by a Certified Asset Valuer is what separates an evidenced asset schedule from a spreadsheet exercise, and it is included in the scope and the fixed fee.
Family law matters run in the Federal Circuit and Family Court, a national jurisdiction with national practice directions. For state proceedings the report is prepared to the applicable rules. Our valuers have extensive expert witness experience and reports are written from the outset to withstand cross-examination.
The same as a local one: ten to fifteen business days from complete information for a formal report, three to five for an indicative assessment. Where a site visit is needed, we schedule it early so it does not sit on the critical path.
Yes, on the same three-part basis we apply everywhere — land, water entitlements and the trading business valued separately and then reconciled, with livestock, machinery and infrastructure valued at market rather than tax values.
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.
Last reviewed
Independent valuation for Victorian businesses.
A free 15-minute scoping call, then a fixed fee in writing. No obligation, and nothing you send leaves our office.
1300 778 033