Evidence-led business valuations for Adelaide businesses.
Specialist valuations for Adelaide and South Australian businesses. CGT events, restructures, related-party transfers and small business CGT concession matters.
Oliver Group provides evidence-led business valuation services to Adelaide and South Australian businesses, accountants and lawyers. Our reports support CGT events, restructures, related-party transfers and small business CGT concession matters.
State-specific considerations.
South Australian engagements involve standard ATO market valuation requirements with state-specific stamp duty considerations where related-party transfers of shares in landholder entities are involved.
What actually differs in SA.
South Australia is one of the cheapest states to transfer a business in.
SA abolished duty on transfers of non-real-property business assets from 1 July 2018, and abolished it on non-residential, non-primary-production real property in the same reform. For an Adelaide business sale that does not involve residential or farming land, the duty drag that shapes deal structure in other states largely is not there. That tends to make an asset sale viable where interstate parties would have defaulted to a share sale, and the valuation should be scoped to whichever structure is actually contemplated.
Landholder duty survived the reform, so land still needs isolating.
The 2018 changes did not remove landholder duty. Where an SA entity holds land above the threshold, acquiring a significant interest can still be dutiable on the underlying land value. A valuation that reports one blended enterprise figure is not much use here. We separate land from goodwill explicitly and document the basis, which is what RevenueSA or your lawyer will want to see.
Defence and space contracts distort maintainable earnings.
The Osborne shipbuilding precinct and the AUKUS submarine program have created supply-chain contracts running well beyond a normal forecast horizon, and Adelaide is also home to the Australian Space Agency. For a business inside those supply chains, recent earnings may reflect a contract that is genuinely long-dated, or a mobilisation spike that will not repeat. Those two look identical in a profit and loss and value very differently, so we read the contract terms rather than the trend line.
Wine and agribusiness need a seasonal normalisation.
Barossa, McLaren Vale, Clare and the Riverland mean a large share of Adelaide engagements are vintage-exposed. A single strong or poor season can swing reported profit hard, and inventory carried at cost can sit well below or above realisable value. We normalise across a cycle rather than the most recent year, and we say so in the report, because a valuation resting on one vintage is the kind that gets challenged.
Industries we commonly value in Adelaide.
- ·Manufacturing and wholesale
- ·Agribusiness and food production
- ·Professional services
- ·Medical and dental practices
- ·Hospitality
Adelaide questions we get asked.
Do you need to visit our Adelaide premises?
Usually not. Most Adelaide engagements run on documents and a call, and we work nationally on that basis. Where the business turns on physical assets, stock or a specific site, we will flag it at scoping and arrange an inspection or bring in a specialist for that component rather than estimate around it.
How much does a business valuation cost in Adelaide?
The same as anywhere in Australia, because our fees are fixed and published rather than set by postcode. An Indicative Snapshot starts at $990 + GST and a signed Essential report at $1,495 + GST. No hourly billing, and the fee is agreed in writing before we begin.
Does South Australia charge stamp duty when I sell my business?
SA abolished duty on transfers of non-real-property business assets from 1 July 2018, and on non-residential and non-primary-production real property at the same time, so many Adelaide business sales attract no transfer duty. Land, residential property and primary production land are treated differently, and landholder duty can still apply. Confirm your position with your lawyer or RevenueSA. We prepare the valuation, not the duty advice.
Can you value a winery or vineyard business?
We value the business and its goodwill, including vintage-exposed operations, and we normalise earnings across a cycle rather than a single season. Where the engagement includes vineyard land or water entitlements, those are specialist asset classes and we bring in or rely on a suitably qualified valuer for that component rather than opining outside our lane.
How long does an Adelaide business valuation take?
Ten to fourteen business days for a signed Essential report and fifteen to twenty-five for a Comprehensive one, from the point we hold complete financials. Rush delivery is available at thirty per cent of the base fee. Incomplete records are the usual cause of delay, not our queue.
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