Forty years
of one focus —
connecting
an industry.
Motels, management rights, caravan parks, hotels, apartment hotels, backpackers and pubs — placed by people who have spent careers inside one asset class.
Pick a lane.
Four entry points into ResortBrokers. Each runs end-to-end on its own — buy, sell, operate, learn — and you can switch between them at any point.
This week, in numbers.
Drawn live from the transactions ledger our brokers have maintained since 1985. Updated weekly. Methodology, sample sizes and quarter boundaries are visible on each card.
Open the data dashboard →Businesses placed across forty years of continuous specialist focus.
Active listings under offer or open campaign this week.
Median multiplier on motel net profit, freehold-going-concern.
Of properties listed in 2025 settled within the appraisal range.
Know your
asset class.
Market reports, buying guides, active listings and recent deals — organised by the asset class that matters to you. Each guide opens with the structure, the comparable-sale set, the typical multipliers, and the brokers who specialise.
All seven asset guides →100+ resources, plus the landmark RB Research Motel Report — our national study valuing the motel industry at more than $15 billion. Coverage across every state, the Made Easy buying guide, and a constantly refreshed roster of opportunities. The dominant structures are freehold-going-concern and leasehold; the brokers below specialise by region and by deal size.
Country Pub & Accommodation.
Pub-hybrid: heritage country pub with 14-room accommodation upstairs. F&B-led trade, gold-rush tourism circuit.
Pub-hybrid
Three more under offer.
Picked by the brokers handling them, not by the algorithm. Each has a structural reason to be on this list.
What we sold.
Most brokerages won't show you what they sold for. We made it the homepage.
What's your business worth?
A 90-second indicative valuation drawn from the same comparable-sales model our brokers use when they sit down with a vendor. No follow-up call. No sales pressure.
Kidd
Senior Graphic Designer.
Tim Crooks works across North and Central Queensland — motel transactions from Mackay to Cairns. Five years at ResortBrokers. The placing broker on more leasehold motel transactions in the Mackay–Whitsunday corridor than any other broker in the firm across the past three years.
motel transactions placed, 2019–2024.
specialises in leasehold and freehold-going-concern assets.
presenter at Motels Made Easy seminars · Mackay and Townsville annually.
From the Informer.
The repeat-operator decade: how 30% of 2025's settlements went to people we'd already placed.
The accommodation industry’s longest-running specialist publication. By-lined articles, named operators, structural reads of the market.
Read the issue →Mackay-Whitsunday corridor: eight quarters of motel multiplier stability.
Field notes on the off-the-plan management rights mechanism — twenty years on.
The career-changer: profile of a Sydney accountant who left compliance for a Victorian park.
Body corporate dynamics: when one committee can derail a settlement.
From the bench.
Editorial, research, and deal-desk write-ups from the brokers placing the transactions.
On A Quest To Help
What started as a modest gathering in a backyard has grown into a meaningful and important Melbourne-based charity, without ever losing sight of why it began.
Fresh Faces
ResortBrokers is expanding — again! Meet our latest recruits.
Southern Comfort
Sarah serves ResortBrokers’ clients in one of Australia’s most stunningly gorgeous regions. Based in the Mollymook–Ulladulla area, Sarah’s territory stretches south as far as Batemans Bay, north to Shellharbour and inland to the Southern Highlands and Goulburn.
WE DIDN'T EXPAND. WE CONNECTED AN INDUSTRY.
Forty years ago, Ian Crooks founded a specialist agency for an industry that didn’t yet have one. Today, his daughter leads the firm, alongside her brother, her sister and her brother-in-law. The continuity is the proof that connection is what builds a business that lasts.
4,573 transactions. One industry.
Every motel, hotel, management rights, caravan park, apartment hotel, backpackers and pub we have placed since 1985 — mapped to the broker who placed it, the year it sold, and the asset class it belonged to.
The Informer, in your inbox.
Quarterly. Always free. Always specialist. Every issue links to the deal desk, the public ledger, and the field notes that drive the firm’s analysis.
Twenty-five brokers. Every state.
Each broker has spent at least five years inside a single asset class. Most have spent a career.
Find a broker by region or asset class →Bricks vs business.
Why the same asset, valued by a generalist commercial agent and a specialist accommodation broker, returns two different prices — and why the second is the one a buyer’s lender will fund.
Sells the building.
Land value per square metre. Comparable office sales in the same postcode. Lease term remaining. Building condition and capex deferral. The numbers a passive landlord cares about.
Sells the operating business.
Net profit after operator’s salary. Comparable settlements in the same cohort. Management agreement economics. Operational risk, key-person dependency, OTA exposure. The numbers a buyer’s lender will actually fund.