Business valuations in Logan City
We value Logan businesses across transport and logistics, manufacturing, food production, trades and health — the industrial engine sitting between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Logan is one of the most industrially diverse local government areas in Queensland, with a freight and distribution base built on the M1 and Logan Motorway corridors. Most Logan valuations turn on two things: the fleet or plant schedule, and how much of the revenue is contracted rather than won job by job.
The local business base
The freight and manufacturing corridor
Logan City runs a substantial industrial economy across the estates at Crestmead, Berrinba, Slacks Creek and Yatala, with transport, warehousing and distribution businesses positioned on the M1 and Logan Motorway to serve both Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Springwood carries much of the professional and commercial office base, Meadowbrook the health and education cluster around Logan Hospital, and Beenleigh a long-established food and beverage manufacturing presence.
For valuation purposes Logan behaves like an asset-heavy market with a services layer on top. Fleet, plant and stock frequently represent a large share of the balance sheet and are almost always understated in the depreciation register — while the earnings side turns on whether the business holds contracted work or competes for it repeatedly.
Business centres we work across
- Springwood
- Logan Central
- Crestmead
- Berrinba
- Slacks Creek
- Beenleigh
- Meadowbrook
- Browns Plains
- Loganholme
- Yatala
- Underwood
- Marsden
What we are most often asked to value here
- Freight, transport and last-mile distribution operations
- Warehousing and third-party logistics businesses
- Light manufacturing and fabrication across the industrial estates
- Food and beverage production around Beenleigh
- Trade, civil and building services businesses across the corridor
The numbers
Multiples for the main sectors in Logan City
Indicative EBITDA multiples for the sectors that dominate this area. Ranges are national; the local note explains what tends to move a Logan City business within its band.
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| Sector | Multiple | Local note |
|---|---|---|
| Transport & logistics | 2.5×–4.0× | Contracted lanes lift the band; spot-market exposure lowers it |
| Manufacturing | 3.0×–4.5× | Plant condition and deferred capex drive the asset floor |
| Trades & services | 2.0×–3.5× | Recurring maintenance contracts separate an asset from a job |
| Construction | 2.0×–3.5× | WIP, retentions and forward order book do the work |
| Healthcare & medical | 3.0×–5.0× | Meadowbrook and Browns Plains practices benefit from catchment growth |
| Professional services | 2.5×–4.0× | Springwood firms valued on fee-earner depth below the principal |
Orientation only, not a valuation. See all fourteen sectors or run the value range calculator.
Local factors
What is specific about valuing a Logan business
Fleet is an asset and a liability at once
Trucks, trailers and forklifts carry real value, and almost always carry chattel mortgage or hire purchase against them. The valuation nets the two, and average fleet age matters — a fleet due for replacement is a capital call dressed up as an asset on the balance sheet.
Contracted versus won work
Two Logan transport businesses with identical profit can be a full turn of EBITDA apart, depending on whether the revenue sits under contracted lanes with term or is won load by load. This is the single largest driver in the local market and we quantify it explicitly.
Warehouse leases and fit-out
For logistics and light manufacturing, the site lease, racking, hardstand and fit-out all bear on value. A long lease at a location suited to the operation supports the multiple; a short one on premises the operation has outgrown does the opposite.
Working with us from Logan City
How an engagement in Logan City runs
Logan is around thirty minutes from our office and site attendance is easily arranged. For transport, manufacturing and warehousing businesses we inspect and value the fleet, plant and stock in-house as part of the same engagement.
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 Logan is close enough for attendance within days. Fleet, plant, racking and stock are inspected and valued in-house by a Certified Asset Valuer, then netted against the finance secured on them.
- 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 Logan City
General questions on cost, timing and documents are on the full FAQ page.
Ask a valuerYes, usually within a few days. Logan City is around thirty minutes from our Brisbane CBD office and travel is included in the fixed fee quoted before we start.
On earnings, with a net asset cross-check that carries real weight. Normalised EBITDA is capitalised at a multiple reflecting how much of the work is contracted, then the fleet is valued at market and netted against chattel mortgages and hire purchase. Fleet age and replacement profile are addressed explicitly, because a buyer prices the capital they will need to spend.
Yes. Contracted lanes or recurring maintenance agreements with term survive the change of ownership; work won job by job does not travel as reliably. In the Logan market that difference is routinely worth a full turn of EBITDA on the same profit.
Yes, in-house. These are valued at fair value by a Certified Asset Valuer rather than accepted at written-down book value, which after a few years of tax depreciation bears little relation to what the equipment is worth.
Yes. Food and beverage manufacturers are valued on earnings with a net asset cross-check, with particular attention to supply agreements, licensing and accreditation, capacity utilisation and the condition and remaining life of processing plant.
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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A Logan valuation that prices the fleet and the contracts.
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