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Business-for-sale listings across New Zealand and Australia, alongside private-equity activity. Set your criteria and get a structured brief on the deals that fit.

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What every listing shows when you are signed in

Comparable asking prices, how the price sits against similar businesses, and every price cut. On a listing these are blurred until you sign in.

Comparable asking prices

bigger dot = higher asking priceprice reduced while listedthis listing

How it compares

asking prices

15% below similar listings

Multiple: 2.2xagainst a 2.6x median for similar businesses
Time on market: 46 dayssimilar listings take 71
Price cuts: 2 cuts16% off in total, the last in August

Price history

2 changes

$520,000 → $475,000−9% 3 Jun

$475,000 → $437,000−8% 12 Aug

Example figures, not a real listing.

Sold prices

Typical sale price versus listing price

Valuation

Value your business

A suggested asking price from comparable businesses for sale · worked examples in New Zealand

A wholesale & distribution business in Auckland

Suggested asking price

$3.31m

3.3x owner earnings · typical error ±18%

Likely sale price

after typical negotiation, 89% of asking

Asking price

$2.93m$3.88m

Most likely Possible

Based on listed prices of similar businesses, not sale prices; only the likely sale price allows for negotiation.

Priced on owner earnings of $1.00m: your EBITDA plus the owner’s wage · Compared with wholesale & distribution businesses (95% of matches) and other retail businesses · includes stock and plant and equipment

An engineering business in Canterbury

Suggested asking price

$1.86m

2.5x owner earnings · typical error ±18%

Likely sale price

after typical negotiation, 89% of asking

Asking price

$1.61m$2.26m

Most likely Possible

Based on listed prices of similar businesses, not sale prices; only the likely sale price allows for negotiation.

Priced on owner earnings of $750k: your EBITDA plus the owner’s wage · Compared with engineering businesses (62% of matches) and other manufacturing businesses · includes stock and plant and equipment

A building & construction business in the rest of the North Island

Suggested asking price

$1.60m

2.5x owner earnings · typical error ±21%

Likely sale price

after typical negotiation, 89% of asking

Asking price

$1.35m$1.90m

Most likely Possible

Based on listed prices of similar businesses, not sale prices; only the likely sale price allows for negotiation.

Priced on owner earnings of $640k: your EBITDA plus the owner’s wage · Compared with building & construction businesses (90% of matches) and other construction & trades businesses · includes stock and plant and equipment

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How it works

Describe it

A few sentences about the business and what it needs — plus a website if there is one. No forms to work through first.

What was typed

“A trades franchise network built on plumbing and electrical services, looking to fold in complementary residential-trades businesses that can be converted into franchise territories or bolt onto its existing member network.”

Read the brief

The description is turned into criteria: sector, size, where, what is on offer. Every one is shown to you to correct before anything is scored.

What it read

yours to correct

Where

New Zealand

Buyer type

Strategic

Sectors

Construction & Trades · Services

Score the pool

Hard constraints filter the pool, then each survivor is scored against your brief and given a written reason — not a similarity number.

The pool, narrowing

hard filters first, then judgement

1,091 live listings

19 returned a fit

15 scored 75 or better

Work the shortlist

Ranked by fit, with the reasoning. Shortlist, reject, and save the brief to be told when someone new fits it.

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Listings

ranked by fit

Established Wellington Electrical Services CompanyConstruction & Trades · Wellington · $2,000,000

Wellington’s largest residential electrical services company (37 years, $5M revenue, $642K earnings, 7,000+ active clients) is exactly [the buyer]’s core electrical franchise business in a new region — a bullseye bolt-on or conversion into a member territory.

Maintenance Plumbing Business, AucklandConstruction & Trades · Auckland · $1,050,000

A 30-year Auckland maintenance plumbing business with recurring, diversified revenue and no owner-dependency is exactly the core service line [the buyer] operates — a straightforward fold-in as a member/franchise territory that instantly adds scaled recurring maintenance work to the network.

Profitable Plumbing Business, Central OtagoConstruction & Trades · Otago · $900,000

A systemised, minimal-owner-reliance plumbing business in the high-growth Queenstown/Wanaka market with consistent ~$300-360K earnings and a secured pipeline — directly matches [the buyer]’s core plumbing membership model and gives them a foothold in a fast-growing region.

Scored out of 100, not a percentage — 65+ is a strong fit.

Listings

Listings by sector in New Zealand

1,030 active listings (3 not yet sorted by sector) · bar is volume, right-hand figure is the average asking price

Food & Beverage

286

$278K

Hospitality & Tourism

190

$1.5M

Retail

143

$682K

Services

$493K

Manufacturing

$1.6M

Construction & Trades

$1.5M

Automotive

$420K

Healthcare

$2.7M

Education & Training

$2.1M

Cleaning

$567K

Agriculture

$3.8M

Professional Services

$1.1M

Technology

$2.0M

Transport & Logistics

$3.1M

Property

$1.9M

Other

Markets

Popular markets

The largest markets by listings for sale.

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New Zealand

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Australia

CafesAll Australia852 for salemedian $220K+90 this month TakeawaysAll Australia577 for salemedian $199K+93 this month RestaurantsAll Australia487 for salemedian $220K+43 this month CafesVictoria439 for salemedian $240K+41 this month TakeawaysVictoria312 for salemedian $189K+41 this month RestaurantsVictoria237 for salemedian $220K+18 this month General retailAll Australia222 for salemedian $249K+16 this month ManufacturingAll Australia209 for salemedian $920K+22 this month Wholesale and distributionAll Australia200 for salemedian $599K+10 this month Automotive workshopsAll Australia189 for salemedian $400K+19 this month CafesNew South Wales184 for salemedian $200K+19 this month Hair salonsAll Australia167 for salemedian $135K+15 this month Childcare centresAll Australia162 for salemedian $955K+30 this month SupermarketsAll Australia155 for salemedian $640K+12 this month CafesQueensland141 for salemedian $199K+16 this month TakeawaysNew South Wales113 for salemedian $205K+12 this month