Business valuations in Redland City
We value Redlands businesses across retail, healthcare and aged care, marine, trades and professional services — a market dominated by owner-operated businesses where the goodwill question decides the number.
Redland City has one of the highest concentrations of small, owner-operated businesses in South East Queensland. That single characteristic shapes almost every valuation here, because the central question is how much of the business survives the owner walking out the door.
The local business base
A bayside economy of small, owner-run businesses
The Redlands economy is built around Cleveland as the principal centre, the commercial and light industrial base at Capalaba, retail and service centres at Victoria Point and Wellington Point, and the marine and boating industry along the Raby Bay and Redland Bay waterfronts. Healthcare and aged care are significant and growing, reflecting the area’s demographics, and tourism connects through to North Stradbroke Island and the Southern Moreton Bay Islands.
The defining feature for valuation is scale and ownership: a very high proportion of Redlands businesses are small and owner-operated. Those businesses are entirely valuable to their owners and often much less valuable to a buyer, and a credible valuation has to confront that difference honestly rather than apply a sector multiple and hope.
Business centres we work across
- Cleveland
- Capalaba
- Victoria Point
- Wellington Point
- Redland Bay
- Thornlands
- Alexandra Hills
- Birkdale
- Ormiston
- Raby Bay
- Mount Cotton
- Russell Island
What we are most often asked to value here
- Retail and service businesses through Cleveland and Victoria Point
- Medical, dental, allied health and aged care operations
- Marine servicing, boat sales and marina-related businesses
- Trade and home services businesses across the bayside suburbs
- Family law and succession valuations of small owner-run businesses
The numbers
Multiples for the main sectors in Redland City
Indicative EBITDA multiples for the sectors that dominate this area. Ranges are national; the local note explains what tends to move a Redland City business within its band.
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| Sector | Multiple | Local note |
|---|---|---|
| Hospitality & retail | 1.8×–3.0× | Lease term and whether the owner is behind the counter |
| Healthcare & medical | 3.0×–5.0× | Ageing catchment supports demand; practitioner retention sets the band |
| Trades & services | 2.0×–3.5× | Recurring maintenance work is what separates an asset from a job |
| Professional services | 2.5×–4.0× | Small local practices are usually principal-dependent |
| Transport & logistics | 2.5×–4.0× | Capalaba operators valued on contracted work plus fleet |
| Manufacturing | 3.0×–4.5× | Marine fabrication needs an evidenced plant and vessel schedule |
Orientation only, not a valuation. See all fourteen sectors or run the value range calculator.
Local factors
What is specific about valuing a Redlands business
Personal versus transferable goodwill
In an owner-run business the decisive question is how much goodwill survives the owner’s departure. Systems, contracted work, employed licensed staff and a documented customer base transfer. A reputation and a mobile number do not. We assess and quantify that split rather than assuming it.
Small businesses are not simply scaled-down large ones
Very small businesses attract lower multiples than their sector band suggests, because the buyer pool is thinner and the owner risk is higher. A valuation that applies the mid-point of a published range to a two-person business overstates it, and a buyer will find that out during due diligence.
Marine and waterfront assets need valuing
For marine servicing, boat sales and marina-related businesses, vessels, hardstand equipment and specialised plant carry real value that is rarely reflected in the depreciation register. We value those in-house alongside the business.
Working with us from Redland City
How an engagement in Redland City runs
Redland City is about forty minutes from our Edward Street office, so attendance is easy to arrange. Most professional and service engagements complete remotely; retail, marine and trades businesses with stock and plant usually warrant a visit.
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 The Redlands are close enough for attendance within a few days. Stock, plant, vessels and fit-out are inspected and valued in-house where they form a material part of 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 Redland City
General questions on cost, timing and documents are on the full FAQ page.
Ask a valuerYes, and it is a large share of the work we do in the Redlands. We will also tell you honestly if what you have is closer to a job than a saleable asset, and what would have to change for that to be different — which is more useful than a flattering number you cannot achieve.
By testing what would still be there without you. Contracted or recurring work, employed staff holding the licences, a documented customer base, systems that someone else could run, and a brand that pulls its own demand all transfer. Relationships held personally and a reputation attached to your name generally do not.
Yes, usually within a few days. Redland City is about forty minutes from our Brisbane CBD office, and travel is included in the fixed fee quoted before we start.
Yes. Marine businesses are valued on earnings with a substantial net asset cross-check, and the vessels, hardstand equipment and specialised plant are valued in-house by a Certified Asset Valuer rather than taken from the asset register.
If the transfer has tax consequences, forms part of a succession arrangement, or could later be questioned by another family member, yes. A documented market value prepared at the time is far easier to rely on than one reconstructed years later, and it protects both sides of the transaction.
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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