Agreed land offer to exchange of contracts
We take off your hands: checking heads of terms, chasing searches and surveys, pulling out abnormal costs and building the appraisal and board paper.
You get: heads of terms checked against your positions, a due diligence tracker, abnormal costs priced into the appraisal and a draft paper for your land committee.
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The problem
We keep finding expensive ground problems after we have already agreed the price.
How the steps join up
It starts when: the land committee approves an offer and heads of terms are being agreed with the vendor.
Check land purchase heads of terms against the company's standard positions
Your team checks and decides at this step.
Track acquisition due diligence reports and searches until every item is back
Summarise title registers and plans for a site and flag ownership, charges and restrictions
Your team checks and decides at this step.
Pull abnormal cost items out of site investigation and specialist reports
Calculate a scheme's nutrient or water neutrality budget and secure mitigation credits
Find and compare off-site biodiversity units to meet a scheme's net gain shortfall
Prepare a first-draft development appraisal
Run sensitivity tests on an appraisal and explain in plain words what moves the margin
Draft the land board paper from the appraisal and site research
Your team checks and decides at this step.
Track overage and clawback on land you have bought or sold
What you end up with: Heads of terms follow the company's standard positions, every search and survey comes back, abnormal costs and mitigation are priced into a final appraisal, the committee approves exchange knowing the risks, and overage is tracked after completion.
Who signs it off: Your land director signs off heads of terms, your solicitor handles title and your land committee decides on exchange.
What it needs to work
- Written standard positions for land contracts
- The company's appraisal model
- Consultants who send reports digitally
If those aren’t in place yet, you’ll hear that before anything gets built.
Who it’s for
- Developers and housebuilders
What would this cost for your team?
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