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Discover & organize

Find the development sites worth pursuing.

Screen the market around your acquisition strategy, build a comparable first-pass development case for every viable site and focus the team on the opportunities that deserve time.

Maple AvenueDeal Discovery
Current✦ AI Assist
Deal Discovery focused product interaction
Illustrative Maple Avenue acquisition case
Developer questionWhich available sites can actually support our strategy—and which should we pursue first?
1,248Sites scanned
184First-pass cases
12High-fit opportunities
The acquisition problem

A listing search is not a development search.

Teams still spend senior time opening listings, requesting drawings and rebuilding the same first-pass questions before they know whether a site fits the mandate.

Current workflowDisconnected decisions
  1. Broker listings
  2. Spreadsheet shortlist
  3. Planner request
  4. First scheme
  5. Pursue or discard

Too many false positives

Acreage and asking price say little about viable capacity, approval risk or land basis per home.

Uneven first passes

Different team members use different assumptions, formats and levels of diligence.

The best sites stay hidden

Awkward or overlooked parcels are rejected before their development potential is tested.

Market-wide development screening

Apply one acquisition strategy to the whole market.

UnlockLand evaluates sites as potential developments before your team commits to deeper pursuit.

  1. Define the mandate

    Set geography, asset type, scale, land basis, return threshold and planning tolerance.

    OutputAcquisition criteria
  2. Scan available land

    Collect the market inventory and qualify parcel, ownership and listing information.

    OutputMarket universe
  3. Build first-pass cases

    Test capacity, planning pathway, program fit, preliminary economics and key risks.

    OutputComparable cases
  4. Rank and explain

    Show which opportunities clear the strategy and why they rise above the alternatives.

    OutputRanked shortlist
Acquisition focus

Know why the strongest site earns the next dollar of diligence.

The recommendation combines program fit, land efficiency, planning confidence and preliminary return—not a single score without context.

Which available sites can actually support our strategy—and which should we pursue first?
Maple Avenue · DallasCurrent decision view
Current
Viable program356 homes+36 vs target midpoint
Land basis$45.8K / home12% below threshold
Yield on cost6.9%+40 bps to target
Planning pathwayAs-of-rightLow initial risk

RecommendationAdvance Maple Avenue into structured feasibility and scenario testing.

Open condition

Confirm utility capacity and ownership timing before acquisition approval.

What the team receives

A usable decision output—not another disconnected report.

Every result stays connected to the opportunity, the assumptions behind it and the workflow that comes next.

Ranked market map

See available, qualified and recommended sites in geographic context.

Comparable first passes

Open every shortlisted site with the same development and economic fields.

Ranking rationale

Understand what moved an opportunity above or below the strategy threshold.

Connected opportunity

Carry the selected sites into Compare, Test-Fit and Feasibility without rebuilding the case.

Next in the development workflow

Continue to Compare

Put the shortlisted opportunities beside one another before deeper work begins.

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Deal Discovery FAQ

Questions development teams ask.

Does Deal Discovery replace our broker relationships?

No. It gives your team a consistent development screen across broker listings, direct opportunities and other available-land sources.

Can we use our own acquisition criteria?

Yes. Geography, program, land basis, return, timing and risk thresholds can reflect your organization’s mandate.

Are rankings based only on public data?

No. Market and planning evidence can be combined with your assumptions, private opportunity data and later professional review.

Discover & organize

See Deal Discovery work on a development opportunity your team already knows.

Bring a live deal, your current assumptions and the decision your team needs to make.

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