Land & Property Development

"Our mission is to deliver building, construction and land development projects that are progressively sustainable in meeting the needs and values of the community, whilst imparting confidence, security and success to our clients and stakeholders through transparent and accountable project management practices"

Land Acquisition & Property Disposal Planning

We make sure that we understand your asset management plan, along with the business and investment strategies that drive your property acquisition and disposal decisions.

By closely examining the growth, income and expenditure criteria of the property or portfolio under question, we can provide advice based on strongly supported information to facilitate alignment with your business case.

We also represent our clients in securing and disposing of their assets, acting as representatives and project managers to negotiate the outcomes that would most feasibly mitigate risk and harness opportunity.

Our Land Disposal and Acquisition services cover the following areas -

1. Scope Land Acquisition Plans and Lease Proposals
2. Structure Sales or Purchase Contract Agreements
3. Compulsory Government Acquisitions and Compensation Claim Management
4. Property Development Due Diligence and Feasibility Analysis

Property Acquisition Due Diligence

Give us a call before you consider purchasing or developing a new investment property or business premises.

Our due diligence investigations will give you clear insight into the opportunities and risks attaching to planning and engaging in the project.

Although each project differs in their nature and complexity, our due diligence reports are structured to provide a comprehensive level of information that is centered around the following criteria:

1. Legal Due Diligence
Verifying the contractual aspects, arrangements and obligations of the property transaction or agreement through consultation with legal professionals

2. Financial Due Diligence
Verify the forecasted stream of revenue and expenses attached to delivering the project with in the objectives of the investment and business scope.

3. Environmental Due Diligence
Verify the present environmental condition and future obligations of the property to satisfy regulatory compliance to nature preservation, contamination and groundwater management.

4. Regulatory Due Diligence
Verify the design allowance, costs and time constraints in obtaining statutory planning approvals (rezoning, subdivision, DA, building license) to both land and building developments.

5. Building Services Due Diligence
Examine and document the building services conditions and provisions (hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire, etc.) to guarantee conformance to statutory regulations.

6. Physical Due Diligence
Verify the opportunities and limitations contained in the present or future design model, whilst making sure that the costs, specification and timeframes reflect the investment objectives.

7. Investment Cashflow
Evaluate and determine an acceptable due diligence criteria that will fully account for the revenue and expenditure streams that will be mapped out against the projected lifecycle of the project.

8. Capital Expenditure (Capex) Forecasting
Qualify the risk mitigation techniques into the project design and due diligence process, in turn allowing for the projected capex to be quantified to reflect the future costs to the investment.

9. Capitalisation Valuatation
At completion of the capital expenditure (capex) and investment cashflow forecasting, an investment appraisal criteria can be applied to determine the perimeters for the purchase or lease offer.

Land and Building Use Planning

By building on various town planning and architectural disciplines, we will assist you in planning and delivering a design that articulates the objectives of your investment criteria and business case.

We work alongside various professionals to deliver this service in a context that is cost effective and strategised at achieving visually attractive and practical outcomes.

Our Land Use Planning service is delivered within the following areas

1. Architectural Planning
2. Urban Planning and Design
3. Urban Renewal and Place Making
4. Transportation Planning
5. Sustainable Development Planning
6. Interior Design Planning
7. Landscape Planning

Investment Property Analysis

When providing you with investment property analysis advice on your investment property or portfolio, you can be sure to expect a service that consists of comprehensive research and easy to understand material.

We invest in the latest software packages to make sure that our methodologies and proposed investment strategies are based on the latest industry modeling.

Our reports are easy to understand and are often used for business/joint venture proposals and procurement of financial institution funding.

Our Investment Property Analysis service is effectively delivered to include the following:

1. Financially appraise the purchase price of the property

2. Calculate the residual property value to assist with property acquisitions

Furthermore, we also construct a Feasibility Analysis to include:

1. Calculate the income and expenditure of various project cost centers, whilst accounting for hypothetical static analysis of the due diligence results.

2. Quantify the key investment performance indicators such as Profit Margin, Income Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV)

3. Structure various development finance options to ensure a best fit in achieving the business case and investment objectives.

4. Conduct joint venture modeling that accounts for the terms of the joint venture to include the projected returns and revenue distribution.

5. Produce cash flow forecasts that accounts for the income and expenditure of finance throughout the lifecycle of the project.

6. Effectively assess development risk by qualifying various “what if” scenarios and quantifying their impact by applying sensitivity analysis calculations

Business Case Development

Understanding your business case is important to us.

It is this model that motivates the initial decision making and drives the project from an idea to a tangible concept.

Our business case developments strategy is structured to encourage stakeholder collaboration. We do this by tapping into the knowledge of those resources that are best capable of putting forward the most intelligent project arguments.

In order to then contribute to your corporate governance objectives, we assure that the project delivery options will be thoroughly investigated, prudently assessed and strongly supported when identifying the most feasible outcome.

Our Business Case Development service is built on delivering the following:

1. The best project delivery option that provides the best value for money outcome

2. Strongly supported information that commits to the perimeters of the corporate governance strategy

3. Business case solutions that exploit project opportunities, mitigate development risk and fuels the selected project delivery option that will be the vehicle to obtain financial approval.

Project Market Analysis

We often consult with clients that have grand visions for a particular development, but they have not fully substantiated the market demand for the end product.

Underestimating the importance of this pre-qualification criterion can leave a development holding product well beyond its projected lifecycle, not giving preference to the fact that the development profit is usually tied up in the last few properties of the project.

We formulate our approach by sourcing input from qualified professionals who are not only knowledgeable about the specifications of the development product, but have experience in valuing, selling or leasing the properties to the designated market segment and geographical location.

We use the expertise of property managers, marketing agents, valuation professionals and marketing companies to determine the end product value, demand elasticity, potential risk factors and marketing strategies that would best deliver the feasibility objectives.

Once the information is evaluated and assembled, it forms part of the evidence that support the Property Acquisition Due Diligence and Investment Property Analysis report.

Property Development Finance

Contact us if we can assist you in procuring development funding.

The information contained in our reports is clear, concise and backed up by strongly supporting evidence.

We make sure that the layouts are easy to understand and interpret, giving the financial institution more reason to evaluate the project from the intended point of reason and process the application quicker.

Depending of the project drivers, business case and overall intention for engaging in the development project (investment property to sell/lease, or business premises to occupy), you need only two documents to support your case for gaining finance approval.

These being:

1. Property Acquisition Due Diligence Report
2. Investment Property Analysis Report

Details of the proposed cost budgets, development specifications, project timeframes, investment returns, market rationale, risk analysis and finance structures are all contained in these reports.

Stakeholder Management

Our stakeholder management service is built on delivering the most workable project strategies, whilst extracting productive and valuable input from all relevant project stakeholders.

We make sure that we identify the needs and interests of the parties, whilst prioritising their influence, managing their expectations and supervising their input to ensure that everyone remain task and solution focused.

Essentially our objective is to convert the collaborate effort of each team member into tangible project outcomes and strong motivation.

This stakeholder based approach will essentially deliver the following:

1. Ensure that the most powerful and influential stakeholders shape the project plan to support quality compliance in the design and delivery of the end product.

2. A strong level of overall support that would result in sufficient human and financial resources being assigned to deliver the planned scope.

3. All stakeholders support the project from very early on as their input and ideas have been incorporated into the overall project scope.

4. Effectively build actions into the project plan that would mitigate the reactions that various stakeholders will have to different project decisions and outcomes.