NSW | $1,050,000 SPECIALIST SURVEYING BUSINESS 30+ YEARS
Price: $1,050,000
You can buy the equipment. You can hire surveyors. You cannot go back 30 years and collect the data.
This established Central Coast surveying and land development consultancy combines an experienced technical team, major infrastructure customer relationships and more than three decades of surveying records.
For a purchaser, that history has practical commercial value. Historical observations, calculations, plans and site records support repeat-site work, long-term monitoring and technical comparisons that a new entrant cannot recreate retrospectively.
Business Overview
Operating from the Central coast, the business services government, infrastructure, engineering, construction, development and private clients. Its capabilities span cadastral surveying, detail and set-out, civil drafting, engineering surveys and specialist dam deformation monitoring.
The practice has approximately 15 years of work history with a major stakeholders, alongside engagements with council and state transport customers. These relationships provide an established reference base for technically demanding infrastructure assignments.
An experienced team covers registered and graduate surveying, fieldwork, civil drafting, finance and administration. Several team members have been with the business since between 2004 and 2014, contributing valuable technical knowledge and continuity.
Financial Highlights
FY2026 revenue: approximately $1.77 million
FY2026 normalised operating profit: $339,612
FY26 market salary to owner (separate to operating profit): $173,000
Earnings include commercial replacement allowances for the owners’ operating roles.
Asking price: $1,050,000, equivalent to approximately 3.09 times FY2026 normalised operating profit.
Key Features
More than 30 years of surveying data and technical records.
Specialist dam monitoring and infrastructure surveying capability.
Established relationships with major infrastructure and public-sector customers.
Experienced technical and administrative team.
Operating premises, surveying equipment and established delivery systems.
Proposed 12-month seller consultancy, with involvement reducing progressively on agreed terms.
Growth Opportunities
An established surveying or engineering group could use this acquisition to expand its Central Coast presence, add specialist monitoring capability and bring surveying services into its existing offering.
Further opportunities include infrastructure and public-sector assignments, dam monitoring, land development and subdivision work. Pricing, utilisation and project mix also present areas for operational review. These opportunities are excluded from the adopted earnings.
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Dan Levitus
Senior Partner
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