DevPartner for real estate developers
Most acquisition decisions in Indian development are made on a spreadsheet nobody can reopen six months later. DevPartner gives an acquisitions team one place to appraise a site, compare structures on the same base, stress the answer and freeze a report the investment committee can actually interrogate.
The problems this is built for
- Every site is appraised differently. Two analysts, two spreadsheets, two definitions of efficiency and margin — and no way to compare the sites they produced.
- The committee paper cannot be reopened. The model has moved on; the paper has not.
- Structures are compared informally. An outright price and an area-share offer are argued about rather than expressed on one implied land cost.
- Sensitivity is done once, verbally. The committee hears the base case and a reassurance.
The workflow
| Stage | What you do | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Intake | Site facts, planning inputs, product intent | A structured opportunity record |
| Capacity | FSI, coverage, efficiency, unit size, parking | Buildable and saleable area, yield, parking demand |
| Cost | Line-by-line build-up, not a blended rate | A cost base you can defend under challenge |
| Revenue | Mix, rate and absorption profile | GDV phased over the sales programme |
| Structure | Outright, area share or revenue share | One comparison on a single cost and revenue base |
| Cash flow | Programme, drawdown and finance terms | Peak funding and finance cost |
| Decision | Your required return and risk criteria | A traceable verdict with named drivers |
| Report | Freeze a version | An immutable document that reopens unchanged |
Traceability, not opacity
Every figure in a DevPartner run can be traced back to the input that produced it and the engine version that computed it. Nothing is generated by a language model, and no output appears without an assumption behind it. When a material assumption changes, the run is marked stale rather than silently recalculated underneath a report you have already circulated. The methodology sets this out in full.
Where to start
Take a live site you are already looking at, run it through the free calculators to sanity check the shape, then model it properly in the workspace and freeze a version. If the frozen report tells your committee something the spreadsheet did not, the tool has paid for itself on the first deal.
What to work out next
- Developer feasibility
The viability measures, how each is calculated and where they mislead.
- Sample decision report
A worked, frozen decision report end to end.
- Residual land value calculator
Screen an asking price in a couple of minutes.
- Pricing
Founding access tiers and the expert review add-on.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from our internal appraisal spreadsheet?
- The arithmetic is comparable; the discipline is not. A spreadsheet has no record of which version produced the committee paper, no enforced link between an assumption and the outputs it drives, and no way to tell you that a run is stale because the cost base changed last week. DevPartner records inputs, engine version and outputs per run, and freezes report versions immutably.
- Can we appraise several sites and compare them?
- Yes. Each opportunity is modelled separately in your workspace, and because every run states its assumptions, you can compare sites knowing whether they were appraised on the same basis — which is usually where cross-site comparisons quietly break down.
- Does DevPartner know the planning rules for our city?
- No, and it does not pretend to. You enter the planning inputs your consultant or the applicable development control regulation confirms. We would rather be explicit about that than serve a national rules database that is wrong on the street that matters.
- Who can see our opportunities?
- Only members of your organisation. Records are scoped to your organisation and enforced at the database level, not by hiding buttons in the interface. Documents are private by default.
- Can we get a second opinion on a specific deal?
- Yes — the expert review add-on is a human review of one opportunity: assumptions challenged, cost base sense-checked, structure compared and the decision stress-tested. It is priced per review and arranged through the contact form.
Take this from a calculator to a decision
A single-page calculator cannot phase a programme, model cash flow, compare structures on one base or freeze a report. DevPartner's deterministic engine does — with every assumption traced back to the value you entered.