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At Advisory Corp, we specialize in highest and best use studies for real estate, providing detailed insights to determine the optimal use of properties. Our expert team evaluates critical factors such as zoning regulations, market conditions, and physical characteristics to identify scenarios that maximize property value and align with client objectives.
We conduct extensive analyses that encompass market dynamics, economic feasibility, and potential alternate uses, delivering strategic insights that support your long-term vision and decision-making.
Our HBU studies thoroughly assess various developmental scenarios, offering you the knowledge to identify and pursue the most profitable opportunities for your real estate assets.
Trust in our comprehensive coverage that considers all aspects of your brand, from commercial to operational and financial.
Our presentations are not just informative but also visually compelling, outlining the unique value proposition, market potential, and strategic growth opportunities for your property.
Our team of former Big 4 consultants is the backbone of Advisory-Corp’s success. Each member brings exceptional expertise in Strategy, Feasibility Studies, Valuation, and Due Diligence, ensuring that we provide our clients with the highest level of insight and solutions.
Director Strategy Consulting
Director Finanical Advisory
Managing Director Advisory
Director Public Consulting
Director Advisory
Director Advisory
At Advisory Corp, we dissect market demands, demographic shifts, and regulatory landscapes to uncover the highest and best use of residential zones, offering strategies to enhance value and identify redevelopment potential.
Our HBU studies delve into the vibrancy of the hospitality sector, analyzing market activity and tourism patterns to advise on the most profitable uses of your hospitality properties.
Understanding that office spaces must evolve with work trends and technology, our HBU studies provide a comprehensive roadmap to optimize these spaces for the future of enterprise.
In the fluid retail market, Advisory Corp's HBU studies scrutinize consumer behavior and retail dynamics, equipping you with insights to maximize your retail property's use and performance.
Our analyses extend to industrial hubs and mixed-use complexes, where we assess zoning, infrastructure, and demand to form investment strategies that align with market opportunities.
With industrial spaces, our HBU studies evaluate logistics, supply chain efficacy, and tech advancements, suggesting adaptive uses that capitalize on industry-specific growth potential.
Highest and best use is not a matter of imagination. It is four tests applied in order, and a use only qualifies if it passes all four. Our process follows that sequence, then puts numbers behind the survivors.
We start with what the law allows. Title, plot boundaries, zoning classification, permitted uses, setbacks, height limits, floor area ratio, parking requirements and any easements or restrictions on the deed. Alongside this we record the physical realities: size, shape, frontage, access, topography, soil and utility availability. Between them these define the universe of uses that are even possible on your site.
For each surviving use we assess whether the market actually wants it here. Current supply and pipeline in the catchment, absorption rates, achievable prices and rents, occupancy levels, and the demographic and demand drivers specific to the district rather than the city. A use that is permitted and buildable still fails if the submarket is already oversupplied.
Each remaining use is modelled: development cost, revenue, timeline, phasing and finance, producing residual land value, profit on cost, NPV and IRR on the same basis so the comparison is genuine. Sensitivities are run on cost, price and absorption, because the ranking between two close options often changes when a single assumption moves.
You receive the recommended use with the full reasoning, the comparative financial results for every scenario tested, the residual land value it supports, and a development concept for the recommended option. We present it to your board, investors or valuer, and it feeds directly into the feasibility study or valuation that follows.
For decades, we’ve partnered with visionary investors and their portfolio companies to unlock exceptional value through disciplined financial strategy and execution. Our client-focused approach has helped businesses transform their financial operations and achieve sustainable growth across diverse market conditions.
It determines the use of a property that produces the greatest value, tested against four criteria applied in order: legally permissible, physically possible, financially feasible and maximally productive. A use must pass all four. Many owners assume the answer is the most expensive product the plot can hold, and the analysis regularly shows otherwise.
When you own land and have not decided what to build, when you are considering buying land and need to know what it will support before you bid, when an existing property is underperforming and you are weighing redevelopment or conversion, when a valuation requires the highest and best use to be established, and when a family or corporate asset has sat idle and the board wants an objective answer on what to do with it.
An HBU study asks what should be built. A feasibility study takes a chosen concept and tests whether it works and what it returns. HBU comes first and narrows the field, feasibility comes second and goes deep on the winner. Running a feasibility study on a use that was never the highest and best use is how owners end up with a technically viable project that still leaves value on the table.
Frequently, yes, and we say so when that is the answer. An HBU study is not a licence to recommend redevelopment. Where the existing improvements still contribute more than the land would be worth cleared, the study will show that, and the value of hearing it is that you stop paying to explore alternatives that do not pay for themselves.
That is the first test, not an afterthought. We work from the actual zoning classification and building conditions applying to your plot, including permitted uses, coverage, height and parking requirements, plus any restrictions carried on the title. A concept that cannot be permitted is removed from consideration before any money is spent modelling it.
Most HBU studies take three to four weeks. We need the title deed and plot details, the zoning and building regulations or municipality conditions for the site, any survey or topographic information, the land cost or book value, and your objective and holding horizon, since an owner planning to sell in two years and one planning to hold for twenty will not always get the same recommendation. Start with a free consultation and we will scope it against your site.
Leveraging a vast internal database and sophisticated market analysis, we supply valuable insights into supply-demand dynamics, transaction trends, and the competitive landscape, empowering you to optimally position your property.
Unlock strategic real estate potential in UAE & Saudi Arabia with Advisory Corp’s thorough Highest & Best Use Studies
Our team of former Big 4 consultants is the backbone of Advisory-Corp’s success. Each member brings exceptional expertise in Strategy, Feasibility Studies, Valuation, and Due Diligence, ensuring that we provide our clients with the highest level of insight and solutions.
Driven by a commitment to excellence, our consultants work collaboratively, combining global perspectives with deep local market knowledge. Together, we create tailored strategies that help businesses thrive, driving growth and success across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
Director Finanical Advisory
Managing Director Advisory
Director Public Consulting
Strategy & Project Management
At Advisory Corp, we specialize in highest and best use studies for real estate, providing detailed insights to determine the optimal use of properties. Our expert team evaluates critical factors such as zoning regulations, market conditions, and physical characteristics to identify scenarios that maximize property value and align with client objectives.
At Advisory Corp, we dissect market demands, demographic shifts, and regulatory landscapes to uncover the highest and best use of residential zones, offering strategies to enhance value and identify redevelopment potential.
Our HBU studies delve into the vibrancy of the hospitality sector, analyzing market activity and tourism patterns to advise on the most profitable uses of your hospitality properties.
Understanding that office spaces must evolve with work trends and technology, our HBU studies provide a comprehensive roadmap to optimize these spaces for the future of enterprise.
In the fluid retail market, Advisory Corp's HBU studies scrutinize consumer behavior and retail dynamics, equipping you with insights to maximize your retail property's use and performance.
Our analyses extend to industrial hubs and mixed-use complexes, where we assess zoning, infrastructure, and demand to form investment strategies that align with market opportunities.
With industrial spaces, our HBU studies evaluate logistics, supply chain efficacy, and tech advancements, suggesting adaptive uses that capitalize on industry-specific growth potential.
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