How to evaluate a real estate deal in 30 minutes vs 3 weeks
Most deals die in the screening pile, not at IC. The expensive mistake is spending three weeks on a site you should have killed in thirty minutes — or passing on a site because the consultant slot was next month.
What the three-week cycle actually is
- A week to assemble comparables and a first-cut Excel model.
- A week of comments, revised ASPs, and a second cost plan.
- A week to turn the model into a memo and a slide pack that no longer matches version 3 of the sheet.
What a 30-minute pass should answer
Does the use make sense on this site? Does pricing sit in a real quartile? What is peak funding? What happens if absorption slips or construction runs 10% hot? If you cannot answer those before lunch, you do not have an engine — you have a project.
The difference between old-school consulting and AI-powered analysis is not the prose. It is whether you can iterate before the market moves.
FeasiBuild is built for that first pass and the tenth. Screen in minutes. If the residual holds, deepen the same model — do not start a new engagement letter.
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