Solve the land price from a target margin

Type the deal's numbers and the margin you need. The solver works back to the highest land price that still gives that margin.

On this page

Open the solver

Open the project. Click the Residual Land Solver tab. If the project has no such tab, click Add tab and pick it.

The solver also runs on its own at /public/residual-land-solver. Click Link to a project there to save the numbers to a project.

Type the inputs

Pick the State and the GST method.

Type the number of dwellings, the average size, the expected sale price, the duration, the construction rate, the fee and contingency percentages, holding costs, interest rate and loan to cost.

Type the Target margin on cost. The result updates as you type.

Residual Land Value Solver

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NSW
Margin Scheme
84
78
375000
30
1890
8
8
3
0
185000
7.25
65

Residual Land Value (max site bid at target margin)

$8,305,358.67

At That Price

Land price$8,305,358.67
Stamp duty (re-derived at the solved price)$438,084.00
Title transfer fee$182.73
Other acquisition costs$0.00
Total acquisition$8,743,625.40
Total development cost$24,526,032.23
Net profit$4,905,206.45
Margin on cost20.0%
Required equity$8,590,807.59
Return on equity57.1%

Read the result

Residual Land Value is the most you can pay for the site at that margin.

At That Price shows the stamp duty and title fee worked out at that land price, the total acquisition, total development cost, net profit, margin on cost, required equity and return on equity.

Click Share to give a buyer or partner their own link. Each link can save its own calculations.