Development land deals can take a year or more between contract and closing. Here’s what actually happens during that time, from feasibility and earnest money to entitlements and the approvals that trigger closing.
A look at where builders are buying land, what’s driving demand toward suburban growth areas, and what it means if you own land in the path of that growth.
When a land deal falls apart, it’s rarely at the beginning. It’s months in, after the early optimism meets real feasibility work. Here’s what drives late-stage failures and what sellers should expect going into the process.
The offers that actually close are rarely the most exciting ones. Here’s why the outlier offer that comes in well above the others is the one to be cautious about, and what a durable deal looks like instead.
A builder, a developer, and an investor can look at the same property and reach very different numbers, because each is solving for something different. Here’s how each one values land and what your property is most likely to attract.
For land near city limits, annexation may be one of the biggest factors affecting value and what can be built. Here’s how the process works, what triggers it, what cities weigh before approving it, and why timing matters.
A property can look developable on paper but fail to pencil out once every factor is evaluated together. Here are the main physical constraints that limit buildability, and what to look for on your own property.
Zoning tells you what’s allowed on paper, but approval only becomes clear as a project moves through entitlement. Here’s why zoning creates false confidence, how entitlement risk compounds over time, and what that means for pricing, timelines, and deal structure.
Many landowners assume the company that develops the land also builds the homes, but those were traditionally separate roles. Here’s what land developers and homebuilders each do, why builders used to avoid raw land, and why those lines are blurring today.
When a developer offers on your land, they aren’t pricing today’s market. They’re pricing what conditions will look like two to three years out, plus every cost and risk they carry until closing. Here’s how developers forecast the future, and why that thinking usually pushes the offer downward.
