Adelaide Property Development Guide
Five things worth understanding before you commit money to a site — written from projects we have run, not from a brochure.
The Development Process, End to End
Development is a sequence of decisions where each one narrows the options available to the next. Understanding the order is most of the skill.
Feasibility first, always
A feasibility study is not paperwork to satisfy a lender. It is the point at which you find out whether the project is worth doing, while changing your mind is still free.
Highest and best use
The most profitable scheme for a block is often not the one the owner first imagined. Testing several configurations against yield and planning rules is what surfaces it.
Approvals are a documentation problem
Most delays are not planning objections; they are requests for information that a complete, correctly formatted lodgement would never have triggered.
Consultants need coordinating
Surveyor, planner, civil engineer, arborist, traffic — each is competent alone. The gaps between their scopes are where projects lose months.
Exit before entry
Decide how the project ends — sell, hold, or a mix — before you commit, because it changes the design, the finish level and the finance structure.