Martin Navarro is a North Hollywood business broker who helps owners across the NoHo Arts District and the wider community confidentially sell and buy businesses of every type, from a post production studio to a lower middle market company. Every engagement is handled personally, with no upfront fees.
North Hollywood, known locally as NoHo, is a City of Los Angeles district whose Arts District along Lankershim and Magnolia has become one of the Valley's densest clusters of media, post production, theater, and creative businesses. The Metro B Line hub has drawn new restaurants, breweries, and retail around the district, while the older industrial pockets toward Sun Valley still hold sound stages, fabrication shops, and distribution firms. It is a market where creative and service businesses sit side by side.
As your North Hollywood business broker, Martin handles businesses of every type, from post production and recording studios to restaurants, fitness studios, and B2B service firms. 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.
Editing, sound, color, and post houses in the NoHo Arts District that attract creative and strategic buyers.
Music, voice, and audio production businesses with equipment and recurring client work.
Independent dining, craft breweries, and bars concentrated around Lankershim and Magnolia.
Studios, gyms, and wellness businesses with recurring membership revenue.
Stage, set, and product fabrication shops in the pockets toward Sun Valley.
Specialty retail and home and commercial service firms serving the dense NoHo market.
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 North Hollywood, creative and post production firms with recurring client contracts and transferable talent tend to value at the higher end of their range, while restaurants and studios are priced on earnings, lease terms, and buildout. Documented systems 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 North Hollywood 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 North Hollywood business sale involves city and county steps that owners often overlook until they slow down a closing. Handling them early keeps the deal on schedule.
Martin coordinates these steps with your escrow officer, your attorney, and the relevant agencies so nothing becomes a surprise at the closing table.
Example: a North Hollywood post production business with about 850,000 dollars in Seller's Discretionary Earnings, recurring studio client contracts, and a supervising editor who ran projects without the owner attracted multiple qualified buyers once its financials were prepared and it was marketed confidentially. This example is anonymized and illustrative.
Martin Navarro is a North Hollywood 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 North Hollywood businesses sell for roughly 2x to 4x Seller's Discretionary Earnings, and larger firms are valued on a multiple of EBITDA.
The right figure depends on your earnings, lease, equipment, and how transferable the client base is, so a professional 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 North Hollywood 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.
Yes. Martin markets your business without naming it and screens every buyer under a nondisclosure agreement before sharing details.
That protects your staff, clients, and competitors from learning of the sale before it closes.
A sale usually involves a new City of Los Angeles Business Tax Registration Certificate, a reissued Los Angeles County health permit for food and beverage businesses, and transfer of any ABC alcohol license.
Martin coordinates each step with your escrow and attorney.
Yes. Martin handles businesses of every type, from media and post production to restaurants, studios, retail, and home services.
He works from main street through the lower middle market.
Martin serves North Hollywood and the NoHo Arts District, plus Studio City, Van Nuys, Burbank, and Sherman Oaks 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.