We tell landowners, investors, and cities what a site is actually worth built out, then help capitalize it and build it. Advisory first, capital second, development third: the same order we run our own projects.
Land only pays twice if you plan for it twice. Every analysis we deliver and every building we hold is judged on whether the numbers work and whether the thing that gets built is worth having on that block in twenty years.
That double bottom line runs through most of our work: affordable and workforce housing, New Markets Tax Credits, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, Opportunity Zones. Do well, and do good in the community. We have never found those two goals to be in conflict.
About the firm
Advisory, then capital, then development. It's the order we run our own projects, and most clients end up needing all three.
The Land Development Analysis: a six-section report that answers one question with evidence, what is this land actually worth built? Delivered in about thirty days, anywhere in the country, with a highest-and-best-use recommendation a lender will actually read.
About the LDA
Access to the capital the analysis says the project needs: construction and permanent debt, joint venture equity, tax-credit equity (LIHTC, NMTC), USDA and HUD programs, Opportunity Zone structures. Finance the project through us and the LDA fee rolls into your loan.
Discuss capital
Sticks and bricks. From entitlement and site work through construction management and stabilization, on projects we advise on and projects we hold ourselves. We build where we advise.
See what we've built
A family LLC had owned the land four years without earning a dollar. Two engineered subdivisions and two complete budgets later, they had a number to take to a lender.
Six buildings already drawn, zero chance of approval. We found the 42 homes the city will support, and showed why selling beats renting on that site.
Too small for a national firm. We ran the full analysis anyway: three duplexes, six workforce units, both exits modeled over ten years, carry cost disclosed up front.
Our roots and our own portfolio are in Houston. Our analysis goes wherever the parcel is: we underwrite from public records, market data, and site work, so a landowner in North Carolina gets the same report as one in Harris County.
The questions we hear on almost every first conversation. If yours isn't here, the phone number works.
All frequently asked questionsA six-section report (executive summary, physical, financial, market, legal, qualifications) that documents what a specific parcel is worth built out and which use is highest and best. It's for landowners deciding whether to sell, hold, or develop; investors underwriting a purchase; and partners or lenders who need to audit the reasoning line by line.
Yes, and some of our most valuable work has been exactly that. Showing an owner that the project they wanted doesn't pencil, before they spent the money finding out the hard way, is a good outcome. The alternatives we tested and why they lost are in the report.
Three duplex lots in rural Georgia get the same six-section analysis a two-hundred-acre master plan gets. We bring institutional underwriting to deals institutions won't look at.
Sometimes. We build where we advise, and we structure most projects as joint ventures. If a site fits our thesis we'll say so, and if it doesn't we'll still give you the honest answer on paper. Either way, the analysis comes first and the capital conversation second.
Most analyses are delivered in about thirty days. Scope depends on the size of the site, the jurisdiction, and how much of the physical and legal work already exists, so we quote a fixed fee after a short call and a look at the parcel. Finance the project through us and the LDA fee rolls into your loan.
Whether you own the land, are underwriting a deal, or need capital placed, we start with the same question: what is this site actually worth built out?