Development feasibility report for your Auckland site.

Our feasibility review is $2,700 + GST, fixed price, with no hourly billing. The fee is credited towards future services if you go ahead with Creston Property. Deeper work such as a full subdivision scheme, engineering or detailed design is scoped and quoted separately.

Usually 6-7 working days after we have confirmed the scope and started the review. When the report is ready, we walk you through it in a face-to-face meeting or on a video call, whichever suits you better.

No. The fee for the review is fixed, but the report itself is an indicator of whether a project is feasible, not a quote and not a commitment to deliver a project at a fixed price or timeframe. It is based on the information available when we prepare it and is always subject to final design, consent from the relevant authorities, site investigations and market conditions. It does not replace a survey, geotechnical investigation or detailed engineering design.

Our feasibility review is our best professional assessment, based on the information available when we prepare it. It is an indicator, not a guarantee, and not a prediction of what will happen. Property projects involve many variables, including design, consent, council requirements, ground conditions, construction costs and market prices, and no one can foresee all of them. We take care to give you accurate, useful information. You should treat the report as one input to your decision, alongside your own advice from a lawyer, accountant and engineers.

If the site stacks up and you want to go ahead, we can take it from there: design and resource consent, building consent, construction, and development management through to completion. If you go ahead with Creston Property, the review fee is credited toward those services.

The free land check uses a tool we built to bring together planning, flood, ground and nearby service information for your address in one mapped report. The feasibility review goes further: our architect tests concept layouts, our engineers and planner review the site, and we model costs, sales and return for each option. If you haven't run a land check yet, it's a good free first step.

Yes. If you already own the land, a feasibility review can help you make the most of it. We test realistic development options against your goals and, where appropriate, model the land at today’s value rather than what you originally paid. You’ll get a grounded recommendation on whether to develop, change the plan or sell the site as it stands - based on which path looks best for you.

Yes. It lets you see the planning position, flood and servicing risks and the likely return before you commit to a purchase, when the price can still be negotiated or the deal walked away from.

We check the site's title and boundary, current and proposed Auckland Unitary Plan zoning including Plan Change 120, planning overlays such as notable trees, flood and geotechnical hazards, ground level change, Watercare water and wastewater capacity, Vector network capacity, and underground services near the boundary. Our architect then tests concept layouts, our civil engineer, traffic engineer and planner each do a high-level desktop review, we apply a buildability check, and we model the costs, sales and return for each option.

Our architect prepares multiple concept plans to find the layout that makes the best use of the site. Our civil engineer, traffic engineer and planner each do a high-level desktop review, and we apply a buildability check so the numbers reflect what can actually be built. We then model each option financially and analyse sales for the local market.

Yes. These are the actual construction rates we offer clients today for the type of build you are considering. If you come to us with a project now, these are the rates we can build at. They are the prices we give clients, not our internal costs. Try our Auckland Build Cost Calculator to see what those rates mean for your project.

We use realistic local sale-price assumptions rather than the highest possible price, and Creston's own construction rates with itemised estimates and provisional allowances for costs that still need a provider quote. The report also shows what happens if sale prices are 5% or 10% lower, or construction costs are 10% higher. These are feasibility assumptions, not valuations or fixed-price quotes.

It answers the same first questions: what the planning rules allow, what constrains the site, what it could realistically support, and whether the numbers work. It is a fixed-price first step, so if the site needs deeper work we tell you what is worth commissioning next.

A planning report tells you what the rules allow. A feasibility report also tests whether the numbers work, comparing construction, consenting, connection and finance costs with what the completed homes are worth, so you can see the likely profit, return on cost and capital needed.

Ilya, our director and development manager, oversees each report. Alex, our director of construction, oversees it from a construction and buildability perspective. Our architect, planner, engineers and quantity surveyors each provide specialist input, giving you a recommendation grounded in what can be planned, built and costed.

It's worth it when the new lots or homes are worth clearly more than everything it takes to create them: consents and design, survey and legal work, connections, development contributions, civil works, finance and time. Two sections in the same street can give very different answers because of the zone, the shape of the site, slope, flooding and where the pipes run. A free land check shows the constraints for your address. The feasibility review then compares realistic development layouts and shows the likely return on each.

There's no single figure, because it depends on how many lots or homes you create, the site, and what has to be built. The main costs are design and consent, survey and legal work, council development contributions, service connections, civil works, and construction costs if you're building homes. Connections can be one of the largest and least predictable items. As a reference, Watercare's 2026-27 metropolitan infrastructure growth charge is $29,348.46 including GST per standard residential unit for both water and wastewater. We estimate the relevant charges and allowances for your site and flag those needing provider quotes.

Plan Change 120 is Auckland Council's proposed update to the Unitary Plan. Its proposed zoning and hazard rules may change what is possible on a site, and the proposal has been amended during consultation. We check the operative rules and the latest available proposed mapping for your address, explain the difference, and flag what still needs planning confirmation.

There is no single return that makes every project worthwhile. The required return depends on the project's risk, funding, time and the room left for cost increases or lower sale prices. Our report shows profit, profit margin and return on cost separately for each option, then stress-tests the numbers so you can judge the risk as well as the headline return.