68 acres assembled on the airport corridor — and the 11 acres we walked away from
A developer client needed a contiguous holding of at least 60 acres within 20 km of the airport for a phased township. We screened 41 parcels, took 7 into full diligence, and closed on 68 acres across 9 survey numbers. The 11-acre parcel that would have completed a cleaner boundary was dropped at stage 4 when the litigation search returned a partition suit the seller had not disclosed.
What actually happened.
- Sourcing
41 parcels screened against a written mandate: 60+ contiguous acres, within 20 km of the airport, non-forest, with recorded access. 34 were rejected on the mandate before any spend.
- Preliminary read
7 parcels taken into a preliminary title and zoning read. 2 dropped on zoning — one sat partly in a green belt the master plan would not release for the intended density.
- Full verification
5 parcels through the full six-stage protocol. 1 flagged at stage 4 on an undisclosed partition suit; 1 flagged at stage 5 when the measured extent came up 1.4 acres short of the deed extent.
- Acquisition
Consideration and registration sequencing agreed across all 14 owners so no single holder could stall the assembly; two owners required staged payments tied to mutation completion.
- Close
Registered across 9 documents over 11 weeks, sequenced so no single owner could hold the assembly hostage at the end.
Results, not adjectives.
Every figure below is a mandate number. Where a metric is not actionable, we say so rather than letting it flatter the result.
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