Due diligence is not a box-ticking exercise. It’s how you protect value and prevent retrades. Whether you’re selling rezoned land, entering a JV/option arrangement, acquiring a site, or preparing for capital discussions.
Property-wise runs due diligence as a commercial governance process. We identify what must be true for the deal to work, coordinate the right third-party inputs (planner, QS/cost, engineers, valuer, legal), and package findings into a decision-ready view that sophisticated counterparties can act on.
The outcome is simple: fewer surprises, stronger negotiating leverage, and faster decision cycles from buyers, JV partners, lenders and investors.
Due diligence is the structured process of confirming what’s real (and what isn’t) before you commit to a development site, JV/option, funding pathway or sale process. For development assets, due diligence covers planning, constraints, buildability, program, cost, title, and commercial risks—not just a basic property inspection.
Development site due diligence is fundamentally different because the value is driven by approvals, feasibility, delivery risk and exit certainty. A standard purchase focuses on condition and comparable sales; development DD focuses on what can be delivered, when, at what cost, and how risks are controlled.
Common silent risks include constraints that aren’t obvious in marketing: access/easements, services capacity assumptions, flood/bushfire/interface triggers, contamination flags, compliance triggers, authority requirements, program drag, and optimistic yield assumptions. These can materially change cost, time, and the feasible outcome.
Yes. Propertywise provides a tailored due diligence checklist + data room index matched to the asset type and stage (rezoned land, pre-DA, DA-approved, value-add, construction).
Yes. We can coordinate third-party inputs (planner, QS/cost manager, engineers, valuer, solicitor) and sequence them to avoid wasted spend and prevent late-stage surprises.
By removing uncertainty early: clear “facts vs assumptions”, disciplined data room structure, open-items tracking, and a decision-led pathway that counterparties can approve internally.
Yes. DA approval reduces one category of risk but does not remove buildability, services, procurement, cost escalation, program risk, or valuation/funding friction.
It means packaging DD so buyers, JV partners and capital can approve quickly—clear assumptions, risks, mitigants and a verifiable pathway.
Before accepting an offer, signing an option/JV proposal, or spending heavily on design without decision gates. Early due diligence protects leverage and helps you choose the highest-value pathway.
We apply a sponsor/credit/transaction lens—the same style of discipline used when deals are assessed for funding and approvals. That means we prioritise the items that actually change outcomes and terms, not generic checklists.
By removing uncertainty early: clear “facts vs assumptions”, disciplined data room structure, open-items tracking, and a decision-led pathway that counterparties can approve internally.
We can assess commercial risk allocation and governance themes (with your lawyer handling legal advice and documentation).
Yes. This is core to reducing disputes and retrades by making uncertainty explicit.
Typically planning pathway clarity, QS cost plan maturity, program credibility, scope definition, and consistent assumptions across documents.
We identify what must be confirmed now vs later, define minimum proof requirements, and structure decision gates to control spend and timing.
We identify what must be confirmed now vs later, define minimum proof requirements, and structure decision gates to control spend and timing.
Yes. Rapid triage is available to identify key kill-criteria risks and whether deeper work is justified.
QS inputs validate cost, contingency and cost-to-complete logic; we ensure it aligns to scope, program and feasibility assumptions.
Because early assumptions don’t survive planning constraints, cost/program reality, valuation basis, or funding conditions.
We don’t replace your planner; we provide governance and commercial oversight so planning assumptions remain credible and value-secure.
We apply sponsor + credit + transaction discipline, prioritising what capital and sophisticated buyers will actually underwrite and discount.
Yes. Decision memos that separate facts/assumptions, highlight key risks/mitigants, and conclude with clear next steps.
A tracked list of unresolved issues, owners, deadlines and dependencies—critical for avoiding last-minute derailments.
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