For SME housebuilders and small RPs
Sixteen ready-to-use tools for appraising, securing, approving and delivering land, built by practitioners who have bought sites and taken deals through board approval. Excel workbooks with a worked example and a user guide for every one.
Appraise sites properly, hit bid deadlines and give your funder the numbers they ask for.
Price S106 and package deals with confidence and take investment papers to your board.
Run consistent appraisals and programmes for clients without rebuilding a model each time.
The toolkit
Every tool is a ready-to-use Excel workbook with a filled-in worked example and a PDF user guide. Buy one tool, a bundle of four or the full toolkit.
Unit mix, build costs, prelims, abnormals schedule, S106, CIL, fees, finance and profit to a land value, with land payment terms and overage.
Adjusts comparables for time, asking discount, new-build premium and location, then prices each house type.
Prices each house type element by element at your chosen specification, plus site-wide works and on-costs.
Tests four housing mixes on the same site for land take, density and land value per acre.
Scores up to 10 sites against 16 weighted criteria, with red flags that rule a site out.
Compares an option, a promotion agreement and a conditional contract from both sides of the table.
Runs a land-for-equity JV through a waterfall: fee, capital back, preferred return, profit split.
Five years by month: land, S-curve build spend, sales rate and RP tranches, funded by equity then debt.
Values social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership and First Homes the way an RP does, and compares up to four RP offers.
Deal terms, a 32-clause heads of terms checklist with both sides' positions, a negotiation tracker and an offer letter that writes itself.
Residual land value at policy against a benchmark of existing use value plus a premium.
Cost against value without grant for every home, so you ask for the grant you need, not more.
Works back from the bid deadline in working days, with owners, dependencies and a weekly timeline. Slippage shows in red.
Five gateways from opportunity to start on site, 48 checklist items, an approval matrix and an investment paper template.
Planning, S106, conditions, technical approvals and mobilisation, scheduled forward so any delay flows through to start on site.
Every opportunity by stage, weighted by probability, and checked against your business plan year by year.
1 — Download
Buy a single tool, a bundle or the full toolkit. Each one is licensed to your company and sent by email.
2 — Set up once
Enter your build costs, sales values and target returns using the user guide.
3 — Appraise and bid
Run every new site through the same tools, and take a consistent paper to your board.
Pricing
£95–£295
One workbook with its user guide and worked example.
Start here
£395–£595
Four tools that work together. The appraisal bundle is the place to start.
£1,495
All 16 tools and guides, with 12 months of updates. £395 a year to keep updates after that.
£79 /month
Every tool, every update, new tools as they launch and a monthly Q&A call. Or £795 a year.
Founding members: £59 a month, fixed for life, for the first 50.
For land and development teams
Every tool and every update for up to 10 people at one housebuilder or registered provider, so the whole team appraises, bids and reports the same way. Add the set-up service, from £1,500, and we load the tools with your own costs, values and approval rules.
Prices exclude VAT. Single tools, bundles, the full toolkit and membership are for one user.
The Land Desk is built by land and partnerships practitioners who have appraised and bought sites, priced affordable packages with registered providers and taken deals through board approval at national and regional housebuilders.
Every tool is built from that experience: the checks, controls and numbers a well-run land business relies on, in a form you can pick up and use the same week.
The first 50 members get every tool, every update and the monthly Q&A call for £59 a month, fixed for life. Join the list to claim a place and get a free sample appraisal.
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