Overpaying for land, misreading density, underestimating construction cost, misjudging capital needs, or signing weak business terms. Every service below is priced against what one of those mistakes costs — not against an hourly rate.
Four flat fees. Two monthly retainers. Two development engagements. Every number on this page is the number. No ranges, no hourly billing, no scope creep — work beyond what you bought is quoted and approved before it starts.
The front door. 100% of the fee credits toward any deeper Deal Desk engagement commenced within 30 days of memo delivery.
Fifteen-minute scoping call first. If it fits the deal, the payment link and the file checklist go out the same day.
Three flat fees above the front door. Each one is a defined deliverable on a defined clock, and the Deal Verdict fee credits in full against any of them within 30 days.
Payment terms: the Deal Structure & Budget Review is 100% before work begins. The Feasibility Study and the Investor & Lender Package are 50% to start with the balance before delivery. Retainers and development engagements are billed monthly in advance at the published floor; the percentage basis on development engagements is reconciled monthly. Confirmed in writing before work begins.
Two levels, for buyers and intermediaries with continuous deal flow who would rather not price each look separately.
Up to 3 deal reviews a month. One strategy call. LOI and business-term comments in writing. Email support within one business day. Additional reviews at $1,495 each, approved in advance.
An investor or broker with regular opportunities who needs periodic judgment, not constant support.
Up to 6 deal reviews a month. Weekly call availability. Underwriting and capital-framing review. Priority turnaround ahead of the queue. Pipeline triage and a written decision dashboard. Additional reviews at $1,495 each, approved in advance.
An active sponsor, builder, landowner, or family-office-style investor running several deals at once.
Retainers reserve advisor capacity and create a defined advisory lane — they are not unlimited-access arrangements. The monthly allowance is the ceiling: unused reviews do not roll forward, and work beyond the selected level is approved in advance and priced as an additional review at $1,495, an upgrade, or a separate work authorization. Retainers are billed monthly in advance and either side can end them with 30 days' notice.
When the verdict is pursue, someone has to run it. Owner-side representation and full development management are delivered here, by the same people who wrote the memo — and by the same rule: a published fee basis, not a quote. Each engagement carries a monthly floor and a percentage of the project; you pay the greater of the two. The floor keeps a small project properly staffed; the percentage means the fee scales with the project rather than with the calendar.
Someone on your side of the table: consultant coordination, budget and schedule oversight, permitting coordination, bid leveling, change-order and pay-application review, monthly owner reporting, and risk management. Also available lender-side for draw review and construction monitoring.
A landowner, church, nonprofit, lender, or private investor with a live project and no internal development staff. Six-month minimum. Billed monthly at the floor; where the percentage exceeds it, the balance is invoiced monthly against the approved construction budget.
Development run end to end: site control and acquisition strategy, entitlement strategy and approvals, design-team management, capital-stack coordination, construction oversight, and lease-up, sale, or refinance at exit. Includes repositioning and hold-sell-refinance strategy for assets already owned.
An owner or sponsor who needs operator-level leadership on a program, not oversight of someone else's. Six-month minimum; $75,000 minimum engagement. Billed monthly at the floor; where the percentage exceeds it, the balance is invoiced monthly against the approved development budget.
Any property submitted to the Deal Desk is off limits to the firm and its affiliates for 24 months from the date of submission. We will not pursue it, option it, acquire it, refer it to a competing buyer, or use anything in your file for our own account. Where we hold an existing interest in or near a subject property, we disclose it before taking the engagement, and we decline the engagement where that interest is material. The obligation is set out in Service Terms §6 and it survives the end of the engagement.
Published deal reviews use live public listings we have no relationship with. Client files are never used in a public review.
Every Deal Verdict is a deposit on bigger work.
The front door is $1,995. The fee credits 100% toward any deeper Deal Desk engagement commenced within 30 days of memo delivery — including the retainers and the development engagements above.
