Valuation-led. Locally grounded. 35+ years across Queensland.
What we do on the Gold Coast.
Negotia Group are the business brokers Gold Coast owners turn to when the stakes are real, whether they are preparing a sale, responding to an unexpected offer, navigating a partner dispute, or planning an exit. We bring over 35 years of valuation and broking experience to every engagement, and we work across all Queensland, not just from a Brisbane office.
What distinguishes us from the field is where we start. Before any business goes to market, we establish what it is actually worth: a number that holds in negotiation and under buyer due diligence, not one that collapses the moment a buyer's advisor starts asking questions. That discipline is what produces outcomes that last.
Most business owners we hear from are not ready to sell. They are at the point just before that, when they have started asking the question seriously, or when something has changed and they need to understand their position before it changes further.
We work with Gold Coast owners across the full range of those situations:
We have particular depth in building, construction and trade-services businesses, a sector where standard valuation approaches frequently produce numbers that buyers will not accept.
A confidential sale means exactly that: no public listing, no industry gossip, no staff finding out before you are ready. We source and pre-qualify buyers before any information about your business is disclosed. The process is managed entirely off-market until the right buyer has been identified and properly vetted.
Off-market salesThere is a meaningful difference between an indicative appraisal and a formal business valuation. An appraisal gives you a working estimate, useful for planning and early conversations. A formal valuation is prepared to International Valuation Standards, which means it carries the weight required for legal proceedings, buyer due diligence, or any situation where the number will be challenged. Knowing which one you need is the first conversation we have.
Business valuationsWhether you are working through a succession plan, structuring a phased exit, or dealing with a partnership that has broken down, the valuation underpinning those conversations determines how they resolve. We have handled enough of these engagements to know that the quality of the advice at the beginning directly affects the outcome at the end.
Partnership separationsA local Queensland business broker brings three things a national or generic firm cannot replicate:
Tourism and hospitality operate on different cycles to construction and trade services. Lifestyle businesses attract different buyers than industrial ones. A business broker QLD owners rely on needs to understand those distinctions, and apply them, not flatten them into a generic multiple.
Confidential conversation
This is not a sales call. It is a conversation to establish your situation, your objectives, and whether the timing and the fit are right. Nothing is owed at the end of it.
Valuation or appraisal
Before we recommend a price or approach the market, we establish what your business is actually worth. That number anchors everything that follows.
Preparation and positioning
We identify what a buyer will scrutinise and address it before they see it. Preparation here directly affects what you achieve at the end.
Confidential marketing and buyer identification
We approach qualified buyers without disclosing your identity. Every prospective buyer is vetted before your business is named.
Negotiation and settlement
We stay in the process through to handover. The offer is not the outcome. Settlement is.
We do not take every listing. We take the ones we can represent with integrity and see through properly. That is a deliberate decision, not a capacity constraint.
Every engagement is handled directly, not passed to a junior broker after the first meeting. When you speak to us at the beginning, you are speaking to the person who will see the transaction through.
Kevin Lovewell is a qualified Accountant who has worked in public practice and now works in Mergers and Acquisitions. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Business Brokers, the highest membership grade the industry body awards, held by a small number of practitioners nationally. He is also a Registered Business Valuer, which means his valuations meet the standard required for legal proceedings, not just internal planning.
These are not honorary designations. They reflect 35 years of work and the professional obligations that come with them.
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Most business owners wait longer than they should before having this conversation.
Not because they are not ready, but because knowing what your business is worth feels like a commitment to act on it. It is not. It is information. And the owners who have it make better decisions than the ones who do not.
When you are ready, we are available.
