These tools were built for a specific person: the Australian owner in their 50s or 60s who has spent decades building a business — often from premises they own — and is starting to think seriously about what comes next.
Most exit conversations start too late and with too little information. Owners walk into their first adviser meeting with no idea what their business might be worth, no separation between the business and the property in their thinking, and no framework for the biggest structural decision of the exit: what happens to the freehold.
These calculators exist to fix the starting point. They won't replace your accountant, valuer or lawyer — they're designed to make your first meeting with them ten times more productive.
The business valuation ranges use indicative EBITDA multiples observed in the Australian SME transaction market, by industry, adjusted for owner dependence and business size. The property figures use standard commercial yield assumptions (roughly 5–7.5% for Australian commercial property, with 6% as the default estimate). All figures are general and indicative — real transactions vary with the specifics of every business and every property.
The dual-asset approach — treating the commercial property as a first-class asset in the exit rather than an afterthought to the business sale — is the core of the Asset First way of thinking about owner-occupier exits, as discussed on The Founder's Horizon podcast with David and Josie Fisher: conversations for founders aged 50–70 about the exit, the property, and the life after both.
Nothing on this site is financial, legal, tax or valuation advice. The calculators provide general information using indicative figures, ignore tax and transaction costs, and know nothing about your circumstances. Before making any exit, sale, lease or superannuation decision, obtain advice from appropriately licensed professionals.