Evidence-led business valuations for Brisbane businesses.
Specialist valuations for Brisbane and South-East Queensland businesses. CGT events, restructures, related-party transfers, retrospective valuations and small business CGT concession matters.
Oliver Group provides evidence-led business valuation services to Brisbane and Queensland businesses, accountants and lawyers. Our reports support CGT events, restructures, related-party transfers, share buybacks, small business CGT concession matters and retrospective valuations.
State-specific considerations.
Queensland engagements may involve consideration of the Duties Act 2001 (Qld) for related-party transactions. Where stamp duty implications exist, we coordinate with the client's lawyer on documentation requirements.
What actually differs in QLD.
The 2032 pipeline is the hardest normalisation question in Brisbane right now.
A decade-long infrastructure programme running into 2032 has lifted earnings across South-East Queensland construction, trades, logistics and labour hire. The valuation question is not whether those earnings are real, it is whether they are maintainable past the pipeline. Current profit driven by a finite programme is not the same as a durable margin, and capitalising it as though it were produces a number that will not survive scrutiny. We look at contract duration, client concentration and what the business looked like before the programme.
Migration-driven growth cuts both ways.
Sustained interstate migration into South-East Queensland has genuinely grown local customer bases, which supports goodwill in service businesses with a geographic catchment. It has also pushed up wages and commercial rents faster than the national trend. A Brisbane business showing strong revenue growth and flat profit is often reflecting exactly that squeeze, and the valuation needs to reflect the margin, not the top line.
Queensland transfer duty is more involved than the southern states.
Queensland retained transfer duty in circumstances where several southern states removed it, and the Duties Act 2001 (Qld) treatment of a business transfer with a Queensland connection is not something to assume from interstate experience. It can materially change whether a deal is structured as shares or assets, which in turn changes what we are being asked to value. Get the duty position from your lawyer or the Queensland Revenue Office early, because it determines the scope of the valuation rather than following it.
Resources exposure sits further inside Brisbane businesses than it looks.
Plenty of Brisbane-headquartered engineering, logistics, labour hire and professional services firms carry real Bowen Basin and Surat Basin revenue without describing themselves as mining businesses. Commodity-linked earnings are cyclical and should not be capitalised at a multiple built for stable recurring revenue. We test client concentration and commodity exposure before selecting a method, rather than after.
Industries we commonly value in Brisbane.
- ·Trades and construction
- ·Hospitality and food service
- ·Medical and dental practices
- ·Logistics and transport
- ·Tourism-adjacent businesses
Brisbane questions we get asked.
Do you need to visit our Brisbane premises?
Usually not. Most Brisbane and South-East Queensland engagements run on documents and a call. Where the business turns on plant, stock or a particular site, we will say so at scoping and arrange an inspection or engage a specialist for that component rather than work around it.
How much does a business valuation cost in Brisbane?
The same as anywhere in Australia. Fees are fixed and published, not set by location or by the size of the answer. An Indicative Snapshot starts at $990 + GST and a signed Essential report at $1,495 + GST, agreed in writing before the work begins.
Will the 2032 Games boost my business valuation?
Not automatically, and assuming it will is a common way to end up with an indefensible number. Elevated earnings tied to a finite infrastructure programme are not the same as maintainable earnings. If your contracts genuinely run long and the client relationships outlast the programme, that supports value and we will document why. If current profit depends on work that ends, capitalising it overstates the business.
Do you cover the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast?
Yes. We work across South-East Queensland and nationally, and engagements are managed remotely, so there is no travel loading for coastal or regional Queensland businesses. Tourism and hospitality operators on both coasts carry pronounced seasonality, which we normalise across a full cycle rather than a peak period.
How long does a Brisbane business valuation take?
Ten to fourteen business days for a signed Essential report, fifteen to twenty-five for a Comprehensive one, from when we hold complete financials. Rush delivery is available at thirty per cent of the base fee.
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