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Land residual (max offer)
Back into the most you can pay for the dirt — the subtraction stack the residual lesson refuses to compute.
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Every figure is your input. Drag or type. The math runs here — no AI.
Revenue
Costs
Your return
Residual to land (your max offer)
the most you can pay and still hit your profit
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Assumptions
- Residual = gross sellout − hard costs − soft costs − financing − selling costs − contingency − required profit.
- Soft costs are a % of hard costs; selling costs and profit are a % of gross sellout; contingency is a % of (hard + soft).
- All inputs are yours, from your budget and market study. Absorption/timing is not modeled here (it belongs in a full pro-forma).
- The residual is your MAX land price, an output of your numbers — not a market value or an appraisal.
How do we know?
The formula
- soft costs = hard costs × soft%
- selling costs = gross sellout × selling%
- contingency = (hard + soft) × contingency%
- required profit = gross sellout × profit%
- residual to land = sellout − hard − soft − financing − selling − contingency − profit
That math runs deterministically in your browser — plain JavaScript, zero API calls, no AI in the loop. View the page source and check it yourself.
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A planning estimate from your inputs, computed here (not by an AI). It is a static residual — no timing, financing draw, or absorption modeling — and only as good as the figures you enter. It is not a market value, an appraisal, or investment advice. Confirm every cost and the sellout before you offer.