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Building Construction
Building construction is the process of adding structure to real property or construction of buildings. The vast majority of building construction jobs are small renovations, such as addition of a room, or renovation of a bathroom. Often, the owner of the property acts as laborer, paymaster, and design team for the entire project. However, all building construction projects include some elements in common – design, financial, estimating and legal considerations. Many projects of varying sizes reach undesirable end results, such as structural collapse, cost overruns, and/or litigation. For this reason, those with experience in the field make detailed plans and maintain careful oversight during the project to ensure a positive outcome.
property consultent
We are commonly asked what differentiates us from other property managers. It’s a difficult question to answer on the face of it, because all property managers should be capable of doing the job to a high professional standard.
Unfortunately, in our experience the “professional” standard seems to be severely lacking in some offices. We often get new landlords and tenants telling us horror stories of their experiences with other property managers. I must admit I do the internal cringe when I hear them and have to work harder to gain their trust and demonstrate that is not the industry standard.
Land Development
Development analysis can add significantly to the value of land and development, and as such is becoming a crucial tool for landowners and developers. It is an essential step in Kevin A. Lynch's 1960 book The Image of the City, and is considered nowadays to be an essential step to realizing the value potential of land. The landowner can share in additional planning gain (significant value uplift) via an awareness of the land's development potential. This is done via a residual development appraisal or residual valuation. The residual appraisal calculates the sale value of the end product (the gross development value, or GDV), and hypothetically deducts costs, including planning and construction costs, finance costs and developer's profit. The "residue", or leftover proportion, represents the land value.
