Field notes on residential development feasibility.
Practical writing for Australian property developers, acquisition teams, analysts and capital partners. Specific, opinionated, slow to generalise.
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Excel replacement
Why property feasibility models break in Excel
Excel is a blank canvas. There is no structure to enforce that your inputs appear once, that your scenarios stay in sync, or that your formulas reference the right cells. Every error is silent until it isn't.
Read the articleSite screening
How property developers screen sites before bidding
A working developer’s screening process. The seven things you check before you spend a week on a full feasibility.
Feasibility modelling
Common residential development feasibility mistakes
A working list of the mistakes that turn up again and again in residential feasibilities, with the structural fix for each one.
Scenario analysisMay 2026
Why scenario analysis matters in development feasibility
Why a single feasibility number is a guess, and how to run a base/downside/upside scenario set that survives contact with IC.
9 min readLand acquisitionMay 2026
What to check before making a land bid
The diligence, modelling and capital checks that should sit behind every land bid, in the order that protects the deal best.
10 min readCashflow and timingMay 2026
Why cashflow timing can kill a development deal
A project can be profitable on paper and still fail in cashflow. How timing decisions, settlement waterfalls and peak debt shape the answer.
10 min readSoftwareMay 2026
Property development feasibility software, evaluated
What to look for when evaluating feasibility software, and where each major category fits.
8 min readProcessApril 2026
How to run a property development feasibility
From address to IC-ready output, in seven steps. The practical version, not the textbook version.
10 min readRiskApril 2026
What goes wrong with Excel feasibility models
The eight failure modes of an Excel feasibility model, and the structural reason they recur.
7 min read
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- Cashflow and timingMay 202610 min read
Why cashflow timing can kill a development deal
A project can be profitable on paper and still fail in cashflow. How timing decisions, settlement waterfalls and peak debt shape the answer.
- Land acquisitionMay 202610 min read
What to check before making a land bid
The diligence, modelling and capital checks that should sit behind every land bid, in the order that protects the deal best.
- Feasibility modellingMay 202611 min read
Common residential development feasibility mistakes
A working list of the mistakes that turn up again and again in residential feasibilities, with the structural fix for each one.
- Site screeningMay 202610 min read
How property developers screen sites before bidding
A working developer’s screening process. The seven things you check before you spend a week on a full feasibility.
- Excel replacementMay 20269 min read
Why property feasibility models break in Excel
A short, honest read on the eight ways Excel quietly produces a wrong feasibility, and the structural reason they keep recurring.
- Scenario analysisMay 20269 min read
Why scenario analysis matters in development feasibility
Why a single feasibility number is a guess, and how to run a base/downside/upside scenario set that survives contact with IC.
- FeasibilityMay 202610 min read
Residential development feasibility, the practical guide
The practical guide for Australian residential developers, what to put in, what to read out, and what to defend in front of IC.
- SoftwareMay 20266 min read
Development feasibility template, what to use, what to skip
Templates are a starting point. Here’s how to evaluate one, what to add, and when to move on to dedicated feasibility software.
- Cash flowMay 20269 min read
Property development cash flow, the guide
Build a monthly development cash flow that captures equity drawdowns, debt drawdowns, the construction S-curve and the settlement waterfall.
- FeasibilityMay 202612 min read
Property development feasibility, end to end
Everything that goes into a property development feasibility, site, scheme, costs, finance, outputs and cashflow, written for developers who want to ship one this week.
- MetricsMay 20265 min read
Profit on cost, what it is and how to use it
Profit on cost is the sniff test for a residential development. The formula, typical hurdles and how to defend it in IC.
- MetricsMay 20264 min read
Development margin, guide and benchmarks
Development margin measures pricing power. The complement to profit on cost, with benchmarks for Australian residential.
- MetricsMay 20265 min read
Residual land value, guide
Residual land value is the most useful number on a site screen. The formula, the intuition and how to use it well.
- SoftwareMay 20268 min read
Property development feasibility software, evaluated
What to look for when evaluating feasibility software, and where each major category fits.
- ProcessApril 202610 min read
How to run a property development feasibility
From address to IC-ready output, in seven steps. The practical version, not the textbook version.
- RiskApril 20267 min read
What goes wrong with Excel feasibility models
The eight failure modes of an Excel feasibility model, and the structural reason they recur.
- MetricsMarch 20268 min read
The residential development feasibility metrics that matter
The six metrics every residential feasibility should produce, and how to read each one.
- Cash flowMarch 20269 min read
Building a property development cash flow model
What goes into a residential development cashflow, and how to read peak debt, peak equity and IRR off it.
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