Site appraisals and land committee papers
We take off your hands: screening new sites, drafting development appraisals and writing the committee paper for each site worth buying.
You get: sites screened against your buying criteria, a first-draft appraisal with sensitivity tests and a draft committee paper, for your land managers.
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The problem
Our land team can't appraise sites fast enough to beat other buyers.
What is in this package
- Prepare a first-draft development appraisal
- Gather new-build sales comparables to back up a scheme's sales values
- Screen candidate sites against the company's own land criteria and planning constraints
- Produce an early build cost budget for a site appraisal
- Run sensitivity tests on an appraisal and explain in plain words what moves the margin
- Track overage and clawback on land you have bought or sold
- Check an appraisal or cash-flow spreadsheet for errors before it goes out
- Estimate the Building Safety Levy on each scheme
- Answer questions on each scheme's consents, agreements and contracts
- Summarise a site's planning history and nearby decisions in one brief
- Summarise title registers and plans for a site and flag ownership, charges and restrictions
- Work out foundation depths for plots near trees
- Off-market site to agreed heads of termsWhole process
- Site layout to appraisal build budgetWhole process
- Draft landowner approach letters and track replies and follow-ups
- Send your land team new sites that match your buying criteria each week
- Draft the land board paper from the appraisal and site research
- Track local plan stages and call-for-sites deadlines at your target councils
- Replace the land spreadsheet with a shared pipeline of sites and next steps
- Summarise pre-application consultation and draft the statement of community involvement
22 more parts, which a call confirms.
We price a whole package as one build (our rule). A call confirms it.
What it needs to work
- Written buying criteria
- Standard appraisal assumptions
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?
Answer questions about your company and how this work runs today. You see an indicative estimate of the hours back, what that time is worth and the price when you send your details.
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