Hi all
With regards to this project I will now post the detail of this project as we have exchanged and are moving forward.
the detail of this post is for information only and the numbers have been rounded up to make it clearer understanding of the complexity of this project
The value of the site in 2003 was 10mil
An option holder paid 800k for an option on the land to purchase the land at 8mil
And proceeded to spend in excess of 800k in added option fees from that date today.
The land owners had to hold there sites from then to today and has been paying holding cost in excess of 1.5 mil.
And
I purchased at 6,840,000 how did I get to the 6,840,000 easy 8,000,000 less the 800k deposit that’s 7,200,000 and les 5% as that’s the market movement down so 6,840,000 the site was purchased as a raw site with a da that is purchased each site separately.
To negotiate this I used a real estate agent as my purchasing agent.
Once the price was agreed we then had to reduce the deposit.
The deposit was at 684k so we got it to 5% 342k then we reduced this to 100k and exchanged on 100k so in reality that’s a 100k deposit/exchange (with limited liability to the new lusty street development company only) on a potential 43mil end product site and a 34% return.
Once we had a deal I also had to get the da and this was a job in its self.
I did a deal with copyright owner of the da plans and got those assigned to the owner of the land and in return I get the cc plans done via an associated company.
To get this thru I had also to negotiate a very sticky group of a legal mined field and to do that I negotiated that if you don’t sue him I will organise this, and then if you don’t get sued, then you will not sue him and around it goes.
These are very difficult to achieve and are very protracted we went thru 5 sets on contracts as we changed this and then changed that,
on top of that we have a vendor that has been told that someone was going to buy this property and all he sees if the moving of chess pieces on a commercial business table and its all to much to comprehend.
After getting thru the legal mined field it was a case of get the deposit down which was achieved and then the deal was done.
So I got 100k exchange on a 43mil site end value, with a fixed price contract and full lend for the major part of the construction and know have the da as well.
And a happy vendor a happy real estate as they have followed this deal with great interest (the owner of the real estate was surprised that the accepted the 5% and then 1.4%) the time to get the reduction of 3.6% was about three weeks of negotiating but I am not paying anything put my time and it doesn’t tie up another 256k cash.
Even the loan the broker that has organised the loan I negotiated the brokerage fee and brought it down to a rate that I was happy with and is under ½ % of the total loan.
At 6,840,000 that’s 75k per site and the norm is 95k that’s a value of 8,645,000
So for me it’s a good deal,
The land mark white valuation is 7,200,000
I organised a full Gross realisation loan valuation by landmark white is 39,900,000
With a total construction Inc land of 29,000,000.
now its onto presales and equity inputs
For those interested why I do these deal I think that you may get that from reading a very good article Sydney morning herald good weekend 0ctober 7 2006 page 31 titled harder faster richer and why Mr Moses stays at macqarie, is very similar to why I do these deals.