Who it's for
Active developers running real projects — people who want the numbers to hold up before a lender ever sees them. It assumes you know development; it focuses on the finance and feasibility decisions that decide whether a project gets funded and what it returns.
What's inside
- Feasibility and residual land value — what you can pay for a site and still make the margin.
- The capital stack — senior debt, stretch senior, mezzanine and preferred equity, and how each changes your equity and return.
- Leverage — how lenders size debt against GRV and total cost, and where the ceilings sit.
- Presales and valuations — what qualifies, what a valuer tests, and how it moves your leverage.
- How credit reads a deal — builder capability, contingency, cost-to-complete and the debt exit.
- Exit — sell-down, refinance and residual stock at the tail of a project.
Why it's different
It's written from the lender's side of the table by a former registered valuer — so it reflects how deals are actually assessed, not how they're marketed. Every concept ties back to a decision you make on a live project.
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