Before you pay a planner, before you pay an architect, before you commit to anything — let us tell you what your site will actually allow. Our senior team reviews Auckland sections every week. In about fifteen minutes we can give you the first real read on yours.
The Ashcroft site evaluation is deliberately short. It's designed to answer the four questions that actually matter before you spend any more money on professional fees.
Turnaround: typically one working day. Cost: $0. Commitment: none unless you ask.
A site evaluation is the most common way clients begin with us, so we get the same questions often. Here are the short answers — the long ones we save for the evaluation itself.
Yes. No credit card, no hidden fee, no "first hour free." If you engage us to go further, the evaluation rolls into the concept stage; if you don't, you keep the PDF.
No. We do evaluations for clients in due diligence on a purchase. Just tell us you're still deciding — we'll factor that into the advice.
About half our clients are first-timers. Several found us by attending one of our seminars. We'll meet you where you are — the advice is the same either way.
Then we tell you, on the same page, and you haven't spent a cent. Roughly a quarter of the sites we evaluate come back as "better to sell than develop." We'd rather say that early than build you something the maths doesn't support.
One page of summary, with supporting working available on request. It's not a feasibility study — it's the step before one, designed to tell you whether a feasibility study is worth commissioning.
One email. If you want to talk further, you let us know. If we don't hear back, we won't chase you — we assume "no reply" means "not now" and respect it.