Property development guides
Use these guides to understand site feasibility, zoning, subdivision potential, residual land value and acquisition risk before paying for due diligence.
Property development feasibility guide
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
Residual land value explained
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
Can I subdivide my block?
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
What can I build on my land?
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
How to read a zoning map
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
How to find development sites
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
How to calculate residual land value
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
Knock-down rebuild vs develop
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
Granny flat vs dual occupancy vs subdivision
Plain-English development feasibility guidance with a path into GoSiteHunt address screening.
United Kingdom and France
England has no zoning and France works off a national friche register, so the method changes with the country. These guides cover the public data each one actually publishes.
What is a brownfield land register?
Every English council must publish land it considers suitable for housing. What the register is, what it is not, and how to read an entry.
How to find development land in the UK
Five public sources that never reach a portal: registers, SHLAAs, call-for-sites schedules, planning histories and Land Registry titles.
Cartofriches : trouver une friche en France
En français. Le recensement national des friches du Cerema, ses trois statuts, et comment chiffrer avec les ventes réelles DVF.
Start with the exact site
The guides explain the method. The app checks the actual address: parcel, zoning, overlays, local precedent, likely yield and residual land value.
Authority research and guides
Original data study
What 92,000 approved developments reveal about where you can build