Real Estate Development: Need, Goals, Value and Importance

Real estate development always starts from the needs of the property, the customer and the end user. We help our clients identify and find the potential of real estate and the right strategy for implementing a real estate development project to improve the functionality, value or yield of the property.

In addition to financial returns, Sweco’s property development services aim to have a positive impact on society or the environment. Thanks to our wide-ranging expertise, we ensure the sustainability, economy and technical aspects of the entire project.

During the project, we will ensure interaction between stakeholders through extensive market dialogue and by bringing together the right networks.

We bring all project parties together to solve and ensure a successful and appropriate outcome. We take responsibility for comprehensive, user-oriented and cost-conscious project management and ensure that the project is guided by lifecycle thinking instead of partial optimisation.

Operating environment of real estate development

Sweco’s property development services bring together three areas of expertise – technical, financial and sustainable.

Combining expertise in different areas of expertise and sustainability goals right from the start of the project creates added value for the project, users and investors and ensures that the customer succeeds in their own business.

Project management acts as the “glue and oil” of projects, bringing people, goals and strategies together, preventing silos, and ensuring the smooth progress of the project.

Real estate development services are a solution for all stages of the real estate investment life cycle

Zoning development

• Plot development reviews
• Establishment of reference plans
• Carbon footprint calculations and regional energy solutions
• Climate change impact assessment
• Chief, architect and special design and project management after the zoning change
• Mapping and tendering partners for zoning
• Consulting on the sale of building rights
• Biodiversity

Project development

• Plot, business premises or investment site search, comparisons and plot use studies
• Needs and project studies and assessment of alternative solutions
• Brainstorming the purpose of use of a plot or property
• Concept design and conceptualization
• Planning and land use consulting and steering of permit processes
• Cost estimates, investment and profitability calculations, feasibility studies
• Implementation of tendering processes
• User, implementer and investor surveys

Real estate transactions

• Technical due diligence (TDD) and other DD services (financial, commercial, legal, environmental)
• Risk analyses
• Energy efficiency calculations
• Implementation model studies
• Leases and consideration calculations
• Planning the development of real estate or real estate portfolio
• Mapping purchase targets