A valuation is only useful if it survives contact with a buyer. AssetBuilt appraises industrial machinery and equipment for lending, financial reporting, insurance, restructuring and disposition planning — and because we also market and sell these assets, the numbers are grounded in what equipment actually clears for, not only in what a comparables database says it should.
Production and plant assets across the sectors we transact in, from a single high-value machine to a complete multi-site portfolio.
Scope can run from a desktop review against an equipment list to a full onsite inspection with nameplate capture, condition assessment and asset-level schedules.
The same machine is worth different amounts depending on how much time you have and whether it stays where it is. Choosing the wrong standard is the most common reason a valuation and a result do not match.
What the asset is worth installed, operating, and part of a going concern — assuming the buyer wants it where it stands. Relevant to turnkey sales and going-concern transactions.
What the asset is worth to a buyer who has to disconnect, rig and transport it. The gap between this and installed value is the cost of getting it out of the building.
What the asset realizes in a properly marketed sale over a reasonable period. The working assumption for most planned dispositions.
What the asset realizes under time pressure, typically at auction with a fixed date. The number lenders and fiduciaries most often need.
Most appraisals are built from comparables. Comparables are a record of what similar assets were listed or sold for, somewhere, at some point — which is useful, and incomplete. They do not tell you how many buyers actually registered, how deep the bidding went, or whether the last three of these cleared at all.
AssetBuilt runs the auctions and negotiates the private treaty sales. We see registrations, underbidders, withdrawal rates and clearing prices across the same asset classes we are asked to value.
That changes the conversation from "here is a number" to "here is the number, here is how many buyers exist for it, here is where they are, and here is what happens to that number if your timeline moves."
It also means we will tell you when an asset has no meaningful secondary market. A valuation that quietly assumes buyers who do not exist is worse than no valuation at all.
A number without a buyer universe behind it is an estimate, not a valuation.
Borrowing base support, periodic revaluation, and a defensible view of recovery if the facility has to be enforced against.
Purchase price allocation, impairment testing, carve-out and divestiture support, and fixed asset reconciliation against what is physically on the floor.
Insurable value schedules, and replacement cost views that account for lead times on equipment that is no longer quickly available new.
Values prepared for lenders, sponsors, restructuring advisors, trustees, receivers and counsel, where the number has to hold up under scrutiny.
Understanding what the asset base is worth, and by which route, before committing to a closure date or a sales method.
Send an asset register, a fixed asset schedule, nameplate photographs or a facility inventory. We will tell you what can be valued from the desk, what needs an onsite inspection, and which value standard actually answers the question you are asking.
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