Business Valuations in Western Australia

Green Standard has no offices in Western Australia. Every engagement is delivered remotely through online intake, a secure client portal and phone and video calls, at the same fees as everywhere in Australia, which suits a state where owners and sites can be hundreds of kilometres apart. This page covers regulation and regional Western Australia. For the Perth market, see business valuations in Perth.

The Pilbara, the Goldfields and the Mid West are built around iron ore, gold and other mining, and trade businesses there often work on or near sites, sometimes from camps or on fly-in, fly-out rosters. Revenue is tied to project budgets and to the contracts and panels of a small number of operators, and the cost of remote operation, including travel, accommodation and freight, is high. A valuation looks at how much of the margin survives those costs and how easily a contract could be lost or re-tendered.

In the Wheatbelt and the Great Southern, agriculture drives demand for fencing, earthmoving, bores and water infrastructure, farm electrical work and machinery servicing, with timing set by the seeding and harvest seasons. A good season lifts spending and a poor one cuts it, so we look at revenue over several years and at how much work depends on a few large farming operations.

The South West, with Bunbury, Busselton and Margaret River, combines housing growth, holiday homes, wine and tourism. Its trades work in a different market from the remote north: more residential, more seasonal and more dependent on repeat private customers. The Kimberley and the far north add heat, wet-season access problems and distance.

Across regional Western Australia, the owner is often the only licensed tradesperson for a long way, and staff are hard to recruit and keep. A buyer will want to know whether the business works without the owner and whether the team will stay, and the valuation looks at both.