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Developers Research: Lessons Learned During the Downturn #10
As the U.S. housing market begins its steady climb out of decline, it is time to rethink our approach to development and seek alternatives to broken plans or projects that were put on hold....
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #1
Our purpose today is to talk about how people can find hidden value in land that they have right now. The world is changing and projects that were approved in 2004, 2005, 2006 may have been done on...
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #2
If you are a builder or developer, the goal of value planning is to enable you to pay a higher price for land relative to your competition. Others may think a project has one use but if you come up...
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #3
Let’s look at a land plan that had an existing program. The total grading is 13.3 million cubic yards, the grading envelope is 494 acres, and the flat buildable area is 232 acres with 288 view lots....
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #4
You can see a landslide identified on another project we worked on, which covered well over 1 M Yrds. We worked with the owner of the property and we came up with an idea. Here is the land plan that...
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #5
The next thing we’re looking at is a project that was approved in 2004. As you can see, there are certain lots that are perpendicular to the views and have retaining walls between each of the lots....
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #6
This is another project that was approved in 2005 and total grading is a little under 1 M Cubic Yards, as shown on the graphic. There is $11 M of retaining walls between each of these of 75 Single...
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #7
Developers Research offers to clients the following benefits, as it relates to land planning: 1) We take data that is provided primarily by you, augmented by information that we’ve determined by...
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #8
Finding the Right Product Mix An example of our applied mathematics is this real project in Riverside County, CA. It had previously been approved at 15 dwelling units to the acre which, at the time we...
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Take the Worry Out of Land Planning #9
Comparison of Product Mixes Based Upon Different Project Ending Dates We are showing that if you change a product mix, by taking a look at a change in the last quarter. You can see from this graph that...
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