Research

How buyers value distressed businesses and buildings

Worked on live listings and this year's forced sales. Sources are listed at the end of each paper. First edition, October 2026.

One rule runs through all of them. Distress sets the price; the business sets the value. A listing's cap rate or multiple is the broker's opening position. These papers re-underwrite real listings the way a buyer and a lender would, then compare the result with what forced sales actually cleared at.

Deal analyses, from the court file

The market

Valuation, by property type