Are you a wannabe property developer who doesn’t know where to start? Or maybe you’ve developed a property before but you want to be smarter and more prepared for your next project.
There’s a lot at stake in property development, and getting it right is far from easy. A badly planned and ill-considered project can consume vast quantities of both time and money - two of the most precious resources for any developer. Luckily, The Property Developer’s Book of Checklists is on-hand to help you maximise your time, your money and your profit.
This unique book is packed with essential information, help and advice on every aspect of property development, so you can rest assured that you’ll have everything covered.
From planning your project, handling the finances and dealing with contractors, right through to letting or selling your property, you’ll find every part of the project considered from every conceivable angle. The book will help you to avoid costly mistakes and save you from making ill-judged decisions, but if problems or crises do arise the book is on-hand to give you vital help and advice on getting through them.
All of the help, advice, tips and information in The Property Developer’s Book of Checklists is easy to access and simple to follow. There’s no complicated jargon or technical terminology and you’ll find everything you need in one of the 90 detailed checklists.
Table of Contents:
Draft of Checklists
The following checklists will be arranged into thematic serctions:
- Buying and selling
- Financing
- Developing
- Starting a new development
- Regulations and Rules
- Project Management
- Troubleshooting, Rooms
- Completing a development
Each checklist will feature 10 points, and where necessary the lists will be supplemented with budget charts, diagrams and flow charts.
Subjects to be covered include
- Access and rights of way
- Accountants
- Architects
- Auctions and bidding
- Basements
- Bathrooms
- Boundaries
- Budgets
- Builders
- Building Regulations
- Buy-to-Let
- Buying Off Plan
- Capital Gains Tax
- Certificated and Guarantees
- Change of Use
- Conservation Areas
- Conservatories
- Contingencies
- Contracts
- Conveyancing
- Corporate Lets
- Council Houses
- Council Tax
- Damp
- Decorating
- Deposits
- Electricians
- Energy Efficiency
- Estate Agents
- Extensions
- Finding a property
- First-time Buyers
- Furnishings
- Garages and parking
- Gardens
- Garden grabbing
- Gazumping and Gazundering
- Grants and financial aid
- Health & Safety Regulations
- Home Information Packs
- Holiday lets
- Income Tax
- Infestation
- Inspection trips
- Insurance
- Interest rates
- Investing Abroad
- Joint purchases
- Kerb appeal
- Kitchens
- Land Registry
- Landlords
- Letting Agents
- Listed Buildings
- Loans
- Location
- Loft Conversions
- Making an offer and guide prices
- Mortgages
- Negative equity
- Neighbours
- Party Walls
- Period features
- Planning Permission
- Plumbers
- Private Purchases and Sales
- Property Management
- Project Managing
- Re-mortgaging
- Schedule of Works
- Searches
- Self-build
- Selling
- Setting up a company
- Solicitors
- Stamp Duty
- Structural engineers
- Structural problems
- Surveyors
- Surveys and valuations
- Target markets
- Tenants
- Trees
- Up and coming areas
- Unique selling points
- Utilities
- VAT
- Viewings
- Windows
- Zoning
- how to calculate return on investment - what is important?
- When budgeting, information about contingency for additional costs, such as tradesmen's parking
- planning for weather
- floors
- terraced houses - what are the implications?
- Fire regulations
