Martin Navarro is a Marina del Rey business broker who helps owners along the waterfront, the harbor, and the Washington Boulevard corridor confidentially sell and buy businesses of every type, from a waterfront restaurant to a marine services company. Every engagement is handled personally, with no upfront fees.
Marina del Rey is a distinctive Westside business market built around the largest man made small craft harbor in the world. An unincorporated community of Los Angeles County, it blends a strong tourism and hospitality economy with a specialized base of boating and marine businesses, waterfront restaurants, hotels, fitness and wellness studios, and professional and retail firms serving residents, boaters, and visitors.
As your Marina del Rey business broker, Martin handles businesses of every type, from waterfront restaurants and marine services to hotels, wellness studios, and professional practices. He works with owners selling companies up to 50 million dollars, handles every engagement himself, and serves Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange County, and throughout Southern California.
Martin is not limited to one niche. He represents owners across every sector, from main street to the lower middle market.
Waterfront restaurants and cafes with harbor views and steady tourism traffic.
Yacht brokerages, charters, boat repair, and marine service businesses on the harbor.
Hospitality, tour, and visitor service businesses serving the marina and coast.
Studios, med spas, and wellness businesses with loyal recurring clients.
Advisory, legal, and consulting firms serving residents and marina businesses.
Retail and specialty shops serving the waterfront and residential community.
Most small and mid sized businesses are valued on Seller's Discretionary Earnings, or SDE, which is your net profit with the owner's salary, benefits, and one time or personal expenses added back. A market multiple, commonly 2x to 4x SDE for main street businesses, is adjusted for your lease, assets, growth, and how dependent the business is on you. Larger companies are valued on a multiple of EBITDA.
In Marina del Rey, waterfront restaurants with strong brands and prime harbor locations, along with established marine service businesses, tend to value at the higher end of their range, helped by heavy tourism and a captive boating market. Transferable client relationships, clean financials, and low owner dependence are what buyers pay a premium for. An online calculator cannot price your business. Martin gives you a realistic figure built on your actual numbers and recent comparable Marina del Rey sales.
Want a quick estimate first? Use the free business valuation tool, then read how to sell a business and the documents you need to sell a business.
A Marina del Rey business sale involves county steps that owners often overlook until they slow down a closing. Marina del Rey is an unincorporated part of Los Angeles County, so the county, rather than a city, handles most approvals, and many locations sit on county ground leases. Handling these early keeps the deal on schedule.
Martin coordinates these steps with your escrow officer, your attorney, the county, and the relevant agencies so nothing becomes a surprise at the closing table.
Example: a Marina del Rey waterfront restaurant with about 850,000 dollars in Seller's Discretionary Earnings, harbor views, and a general manager running daily operations attracted multiple qualified buyers once its financials and ground lease terms were prepared and it was marketed confidentially. This example is anonymized and illustrative.
Martin Navarro is a Marina del Rey business broker and M&A advisor who handles the confidential sale and acquisition of businesses of every type, from main street through the lower middle market. He works every engagement personally.
Most Marina del Rey businesses sell for roughly 2x to 4x Seller's Discretionary Earnings, and larger firms are valued on a multiple of EBITDA.
Waterfront restaurants and marine businesses with a prime harbor location often value at the top of the range, though ground lease terms can affect value. A valuation on your actual numbers is the only reliable answer.
There are no upfront fees to work with Martin Navarro.
He is paid a success fee only when your Marina del Rey business sells and the deal closes.
Most sales take 6 to 12 months from engagement to closing.
Preparation runs 1 to 3 months, confidential marketing 3 to 6 months, and due diligence plus escrow another 60 to 90 days. A county ground lease can add time to the assignment.
Yes. Martin markets your business without naming it and screens every buyer under a nondisclosure agreement before sharing details.
That protects your staff, customers, and competitors from learning of the sale before it closes.
A sale usually involves the applicable Los Angeles County business license, a reissued county health permit for food and wellness businesses, and transfer of any ABC alcohol license.
Because Marina del Rey is unincorporated and often on county ground leases, the county handles approvals. Martin coordinates each step with your escrow and attorney.
Yes. Martin handles businesses of every type, from waterfront restaurants and marine services to hotels, wellness, retail, and franchises.
He works from main street through the lower middle market.
Martin serves Marina del Rey and the harbor, plus Santa Monica, Culver City, Venice, and Playa del Rey nearby.
He also covers Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange County, and throughout Southern California.
Get a confidential, no obligation consultation. Martin will tell you what your business is worth and what a sale could look like. The first conversation is always free.