Selling or buying a construction company
Equipment has a value. A repeatable way of winning profitable work has a multiple.
If you own one
Thinking about selling your construction company?
Most construction companies are sold as though they were a fleet of equipment with a crew attached, and that is exactly the price they get. The businesses that command more are the ones that can show a repeatable way of winning work at a margin — relationships, estimating discipline, a niche nobody else bids well — because that is the thing a buyer cannot simply purchase at auction.
What raises the price
- A specialty or geography where you are the obvious call rather than one of eight bidders
- Estimating and job costing that have proven accurate across cycles
- Repeat owners, municipalities or developers rather than pure hard bid
- Equipment that is owned, maintained and worth what the schedule says
- Superintendents and foremen who run jobs without the owner on site
What a buyer will discount
- Revenue that swings with one large project a year
- Under-billings and change orders carried optimistically
- Equipment nearing replacement with no capital plan
- The owner personally holding the customer relationships and the bid strategy
None of this is a reason to wait. Most of these are fixable, and knowing which ones apply to you is exactly what a valuation is for.
What is my construction company worth?
Nine questions, an indicative range on screen, and a scorecard showing which value drivers you already have and which are costing you money. No cost, no obligation, and nothing is published.
Get a free valuationPrefer to talk it through first? Use the form below — it reaches a person, not a queue.
If you want to buy one
Looking to acquire a construction company?
Look for the estimating function first. A construction business where one person produces every winning number is a business you are buying for its equipment. One with a proven system, a specialty and repeat customers is a going concern.
Not sure you are ready to compete? Take the readiness check — two minutes, and it tells you exactly what sellers compare buyers on.
Get told before it is listed
Most good businesses in this sector are placed with a prepared buyer before they are ever publicly advertised. Buyers on file hear first. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Register what you are looking forStart the conversation
Tell us which one you are
Whether you own a construction company or want to buy one, this is the same first step: a short, confidential conversation with a person who has done this before.
- Read personally — never a shared inbox or an auto-responder
- Confidential. We do not contact your employees, customers or competitors
- No cost and no obligation to do anything with the answer
- You can leave anything blank and fill it in later
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Everything you send is treated as confidential. It is read by the person you addressed it to, used only to respond to you, and never sold, shared with foreign entities or used for unsolicited marketing. We do not contact your employees, customers, suppliers or competitors.
Want it in writing first? Say so and we will send a non-disclosure agreement for signature before anything specific is discussed. Plenty of owners prefer that, and nobody is offended by being asked.
Submitting this form does not create a legally binding agreement, an engagement, or a confidentiality obligation on its own — it starts a conversation. Anything binding is a document both sides sign.
Questions owners actually ask
Construction & Site Work: the questions we get
How do I sell my construction company?
With the job schedule, the equipment list and the backlog prepared in advance, and always confidentially. We value the business, show you what a buyer will question, and approach qualified buyers under a confidentiality agreement so your crews and customers are not unsettled.
What is a construction business worth?
The equipment sets the floor. What sits above it depends on whether the business can win profitable work without you. A complimentary valuation separates those two things so you can see the gap and decide what to do about it.
Should I sell now or wait for a better market?
That is worth an honest conversation rather than a slogan. Backlog, equipment condition, your own timeline and the lending environment all matter, and sometimes the right answer is to wait two years and prepare.
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Start with a number, not a decision
A complimentary, confidential valuation tells you what your construction company would be worth today and what is holding it back. Whether you act on it is entirely up to you.