What it does
A feasibility study for a development: what a parcel allows, every approval path, what to build, and what the land is worth. Development feasibility shows up in 14.3% of working conversations, so the named-product count understates how often this is the real question.
When to use it
Use it on land or a redevelopment site before you bid: what can be built, at what cost, for what return, and what you can pay for the land. To see a massing first, use Visualization; to compare keep, convert and rebuild on an existing building, use Best Use.
How to use it
- Open Feasibility under Analysis in the left list. The first tab is New study, and it asks Which land? An address is enough.
- Type the Street address, city and press Find the parcel. Finding the lot is free: the parcel is found, drawn on the map, with its zoning and size.
- Check the parcel. + Add another address joins neighboring lots; a site holds up to eight parcels.
- Optional: Add documents: a survey, a title commitment or an appraisal. Figures read from them replace the records'. Text PDFs are read (up to 25 MB, eight files); scans, Word, Excel and images are attached by name, not read.
- Check the Estimated cost next to the button and press Run the study.
What you get back
- The verdict, on screen: what to build and what to bid. Start here.
- The full study, in sections: Answer, Approval path, What to build, What you can pay, The site, Proof & gaps.
- The Feasibility workbook (XLSX, live formulas): summary, assumptions, development budget, sources and uses, land residual and returns, sensitivity when the run builds one, and the sources.
A report on 91% of runs in the last thirty days, the highest rate of any product we run. Most runs also come back with a deck (74 of 84 finished runs in the 30 days to 12 October 2026) and the workbook (69 of 84). Every study is on the Studies tab.
Time and cost
Finding the parcel is free; the Estimated cost of the study is shown before you run it. Median 27 minutes, but the 90th percentile is 75 (80 finished runs in the 30 days to 11 October 2026); the tail here is genuinely long. If you need it by a time, ask and we will quote the slow end. Median 4.8 credits.
Do
- State the programme you have in mind. Unit mix, target size, phasing: feasibility against a specific programme is a far sharper answer than feasibility in general.
- Give your cost assumptions if you have them. Build cost is the input that moves the result most, and yours are better than ours.
- Plan for the tail on anything time-critical.
Do not
- Do not expect local planning rules to be applied. Zoning is carried for 21 cities, and the jurisdiction pack does not reach the model on any run. Density, height, parking minimums, tenure conventions: if your answer turns on one, put it in the brief.