What is your dealership worth?
Review normalized earnings, franchise goodwill, property and the factors that support a credible sale valuation.
Read the valuation articleSELL YOUR FRANCHISED DEALERSHIP
You’ve built something valuable.
Let’s give your next chapter the same care. Confidential sale planning, informed valuation, and a process built around your objectives.
Discuss your dealershipNORTH AMERICAN BROKERAGE STRENGTH
Local insight. Continental reach.
Since 2006, Tim Lamb Group has grown into one of North America’s leading franchised dealership brokerage firms, with billions of dollars in dealership transaction activity across Canada and the United States.
Our network brings together former dealer principals, OEM executives and regional transaction specialists, connecting owners with qualified dealer groups and strategic acquirers.
Our team’s manufacturer and retail dealership experience helps navigate the complex realities of franchised dealership transactions, including manufacturer approval processes, buyer qualification and lender considerations.
From confidential valuation and buyer outreach to negotiation and closing, we work to protect seller relationships and move transactions forward with discipline.
Group positioning and transaction activity: Tim Lamb Group’s published corporate information. Manufacturer and lender approvals remain transaction-specific.
SELLER GUIDE
How to sell a franchised dealership in Canada.
A step-by-step look at valuation, buyer qualification, OEM consent, due diligence and closing proceeds.
Explore the seller guideSELLER RESOURCES
Understand value. Protect proceeds.
Five issues to address before selling
Prepare inventory, OEM credits, tax structure, employee matters and demonstrator valuation before diligence.
Read the seller guideA FORMER DEALER IN YOUR CORNER
A considered sale. From the first conversation.
Understand your value
Look beyond a single multiple. Evaluate normalized earnings, the franchise, real estate, market position and a clearly supported upside case.
Reach the right buyers
Build a targeted approach around buyer fit, financial capacity and your confidentiality requirements.
Keep the process moving
Coordinate the commercial process alongside your legal, accounting, financing and OEM teams.
SELL NOW. OR PLAN AHEAD.
The best first step
is a private conversation.
Whether your horizon is this year or several years away, we can discuss what buyers may value, where preparation could help, and what a sale process would involve.
- 01
Confidential discovery
Your objectives, timeline and preferred outcome.
- 02
Valuation & positioning
A supported view of earnings, assets and opportunity.
- 03
Qualified buyer outreach
Controlled disclosure and a focused buyer process.
- 04
Negotiation through closing
Keep conditions, diligence and stakeholders aligned.
START CONFIDENTIALLY
Tell me about
your next chapter.
You do not need to upload financial statements to start a conversation.
Gordie Gerbrandt
Director of Canadian Operations
Tim Lamb Group
Confidential inquiries now use a secure Wix Forms submission. This former demonstration form is no longer active.
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Tell us about your dealership and your potential sale timeline. We will contact you to discuss next steps.
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