Express Tunnel Washes
Conveyor tunnels with membership programs and free vacuums — the format institutional buyers pursue hardest in Sunrise, Florida.

Broward County • Broward
Car washes for sale in Sunrise, Florida are valued on monthly car counts, unlimited-wash membership base, and equipment condition. Express tunnels, in-bay automatics, and self-serve bays trade at different multiples, and a site's Sunrise Blvd visibility and stacking capacity drive throughput. Led by Bobby Berrido, CCIM, CMAA. All transactions are brokered through Fausto Commercial.
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(305) 518-1545Car washes sit next to fuel retail in the same real estate conversation: high-visibility corners, drive-through traffic, and equipment-heavy operations. Many Sunrise owners run both, and buyers regularly look at the two asset classes side by side.
Sunrise wash demand is supported by Sawgrass Mills traffic, arena events, and commuter density, with the strongest sites on Sunrise Blvd and Oakland Park Blvd.
We broker express tunnels, in-bay automatics attached to fuel sites, self-serve bays, and wash real estate leased to operators.
Also review gas stations for sale in Sunrise and gas stations for lease in Sunrise.
What We Broker
Conveyor tunnels with membership programs and free vacuums — the format institutional buyers pursue hardest in Sunrise, Florida.
Wash bays attached to a Sunrise gas station, underwritten as an incremental profit center on existing fuel traffic.
Lower-capex wand-bay properties, often on smaller Sunrise Blvd parcels with redevelopment optionality.
Fee-simple wash property leased to a credit operator — a net-lease alternative to fuel-anchored real estate.
Confidential disposition to regional chains, private equity platforms, and local operators.
Service garages, lube centers, tire stores, and other automotive properties across Sunrise.
Unlimited-wash membership is the number that moves a Sunrise car wash valuation. Members per month, churn, capture rate, and average revenue per member determine how much of the cash flow is recurring — and recurring revenue is what compresses the cap rate. Retail-only washes on Sunrise Blvd price meaningfully wider.
Diligence items that change the Sunrise price: tunnel and conveyor age, reclaim system condition, water and sewer capacity, county stormwater permitting, vacuum and pay-station equipment life, and whether the site has an enforceable non-compete with the seller inside the trade area.
Sunrise demand is resident-driven and therefore steady week to week, with peaks in the morning and evening commute on Sunrise Blvd and Oakland Park Blvd. Steady demand supports financing, but it also means growth comes from capture rate and store execution rather than from new traffic.
In resident markets, the competitive question is what could be built nearby. We check zoning, available pads, and permitted competing fuel or wash uses inside the trade area before pricing, because a new build a half mile away resets throughput in a 97,335-resident market faster than any pricing strategy can recover.
Sunrise sits in Broward County with roughly 97,335 residents and functions as a secondary Broward trade area. Retail transactions cluster on Sunrise Blvd and Oakland Park Blvd, and regional access runs through I-595, Florida's Turnpike, and Sawgrass Expy. That geography, more than countywide averages, determines what a site here earns.
The buyer pool in Sunrise is a mix of local owner-operators expanding by one or two units, multi-site operators and jobbers placing supply volume, 1031 and net-lease capital pricing Florida yield, and developers valuing the dirt for a different use. Which pool bids highest depends on whether the real estate conveys and on how much of the earnings is documentable.
Every Sunrise engagement stays confidential — blind teaser first, NDA-gated package second, and no public listing unless the owner asks for one. All transactions are brokered through Fausto Commercial.
Underwriting
A Sunrise car wash is valued on recurring revenue quality. Buyers weigh monthly car counts, the size and churn of the unlimited-membership base, average ticket, and remaining useful life on the tunnel or bay equipment.
Membership changes the multiple. A wash where a large share of revenue is contracted monthly is valued closer to a subscription business; a purely retail wash is valued on volatile car counts and weather.
Site design caps upside. Stacking depth, vacuum count, entry and exit geometry, and water reclaim capacity determine peak throughput no matter how strong the marketing is.
Buyers and operators searching Sunrise usually widen the radius. These adjacent markets share the same corridors and buyer pool.
Broward County • Broward
Broward County • Broward
Broward County • Broward
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