This land surveying firm founded in 2006 and based in King County, Washington, has been providing construction staking and site-layout surveying to general contractors, homebuilders, and site-development contractors along the Puget Sound I-5 corridor (Thurston County to southern Snohomish County). Roughly 98% of revenue is construction survey work. The practice is owner-operated with a two-decade, referral-driven book of repeat construction clients, no debt, no lease, and minimal overhead. Offered as an asset sale at $325,000, including approximately $60,000 of equipment and vehicles.
- Asking Price:
- $325,000 Furniture / Fixtures included
- Sales Revenue:
- $206,451
- Cash Flow:
- $173,269
Property Information
- Premises Details:
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Home-based. No commercial office or lease to assume and no real estate included. The operation is relocatable within its service area; a buyer may fold it into an existing office or continue the home-based model without interruption to clients.
Business Operation
- Management type:
- This business is owner operated.
- Expansion Potential:
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Add field staff or a second crew to take on volume the owners currently decline; establish a website and basic digital marketing (currently none); broaden service lines (ALTA surveys, platting, drone/UAV mapping); cross-sell through an acquirers existing engineering or construction client base; pursue municipal and public-works contracts supported by federal infrastructure funding; and capture share as surveyors exit the field. The work is durable and largely insulated from AI/automation displacement.
- Competition / Market:
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Highly fragmented market of small independent surveying practices and the in-house survey departments of larger engineering firms. Washington PLS licensure is a barrier to entry and the licensed workforce is aging (more surveyors retiring than entering), which favors established firms. This company competes on long-standing referral relationships, licensure, low overhead / competitive pricing, and equipment already in place.
- Reasons for selling:
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Retirement.
- Trading hours:
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Monday-Friday 8 AM-5 PM
- Employees:
- 1 FT/1 PT
- Years established:
- 20
Other Information
- Support & training:
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Will train for 4 weeks @ $0 cost.
- Furniture / Fixtures value:
- $60,000 - included in the asking price
- Home based:
- This business can be run from home
- Relocatable:
- This business can be relocated
