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See for yourself why ARGUS Developer is an industry-leading real estate software to manage your property development projects effectively.
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Key features of ARGUS Developer
Test the financial viability of your next development project
The days of manually building one-off appraisal models and comparative scenarios are long gone. Developers need an easier way to create pro forma assessments to achieve their projects’ best possible scenario.
With ARGUS Developer, you can build and leverage pro forma templates, set up a project timescale with configurable stages to suit your project, link phases and model phase dependencies, test scenarios for proposed developments, and bring transparency to risks.
Build solid business cases to secure project financing
The return on any investment must outweigh the risk associated with it. Undertaking property development is no different as investors and financial lenders always look for the best option to deliver a successful financial outcome.
With ARGUS Developer, you can quickly model debt and equity to automatically view your cash flows across your project, create unlimited numbers of finance structures across multi-stage projects, and model complex debt and profit distributions, including waterfalls.
Understand the implication of changes to critical project variables
With certainty becoming one of the rarest commodities in the current environment, developers are constantly under immense pressure to deliver their projects on time and budget during turbulent property cycles.
With ARGUS Developer, you can build several development scenarios to find the highest and best use, stress test variables at once to understand the impact on returns, and identify risks and manage projects using tools specifically designed for sensitivity testing.
Manage project costs and ongoing financial risks
As the invoices start to be processed, developers must remain vigilant and review actual costs every month. Understanding how much has been spent compared to how much is left to spend is an essential element of cost control.
With ARGUS Developer, you can monitor KPIs against budget ensuring cost and revenue are kept in scope over timeframes and projects. You can also simplify workflows with your finance and development team to import actuals and refresh forecasts to get an accurate view of your project cash flow.
Keep stakeholders and investors informed with transparent reporting
With investors demanding greater transparency and more granular detail of their investments, being able to quickly assess your data and report on your development projects’ performance is key to staying competitive.
With ARGUS Developer, you can generate more than 50 built-in reports to assess how your individual or group projects are performing, consolidate KPI reporting and dashboards across your entire portfolio and give your investors greater transparency on the progress of your projects.
Built for the property development industry, ARGUS Developer is the trusted software solution to manage every stage of your real estate development lifecycle with confidence.
1. Development feasibility and timescales
The days of manually building one-off feasibility models and comparative scenarios are long gone. Developers need an easier way to create a pro forma assessment to achieve their projects' best possible scenario.
With ARGUS Developer, you can build and leverage feasibility/pro forma templates, set up a project timescale with configurable stages to suit your project, link phases and model phase dependencies, test scenarios for proposed developments, and bring transparency to risks.
Built for the property development industry, ARGUS Developer is the trusted software solution to manage every stage of your real estate development lifecycle with confidence.
Key features
2. Project financing structures
The return on any investment must outweigh the risk associated with it. Undertaking property development is no different as investors and financial lenders always look for the best option to deliver a successful financial outcome.
With ARGUS Developer, you can quickly model debt and equity to automatically view your cash flows across your project, create unlimited numbers of finance structures across multi-stage projects, and model complex debt and profit distributions, including waterfalls.
3. Scenario analysis and forecasting
With certainty becoming one of the rarest commodities in the current environment, developers are constantly under immense pressure to deliver their projects on time and budget during turbulent property cycles.
With ARGUS Developer, you can build several development scenarios to find the highest and best use, stress test variables at once to understand the impact on returns, and identify risks and manage projects using tools specifically designed for sensitivity testing.
4. Cost control and project monitoring
As the invoices start to be processed, developers must remain vigilant and review actual costs every month. Understanding how much has been spent compared to how much is left to spend is an essential element of cost control.
With ARGUS Developer, you can monitor KPIs against budget ensuring cost and revenue are kept in scope over timeframes and projects. You can also simplify workflows with your finance and development team to import actuals and refresh forecasts to get an accurate view of your project cash flow.
5. Stakeholder and investor reporting
Keep stakeholders and investors informed with transparent reporting
With investors demanding greater transparency and more granular detail of their investments, being able to quickly assess your data and report on your development projects' performance is key to staying competitive.
With ARGUS Developer, you can generate more than 50 built-in reports to assess how your individual or group projects are performing, consolidate KPI reporting and dashboards across your entire portfolio and give your investors greater transparency on the progress of your projects.
Insights
Built-in sensitivity tools to test assumptions across project variables and understand highest and best use
Integrity
Robust calculation engine so you always achieve the best possible scenario and return on any project
Consistency
Pro forma templates that can be used to simplify and standardize modeling processes
Creditability
Detailed reports and dashboards to model debt and equity funding structures for airtight business cases
Transparency
Advanced analytics that provides you with a live project cash flow and reforecasts your budget
Consolidation
All projects across your development portfolio in one place with consolidated reports on cash flow, profit and equity
Why choose ARGUS Developer?
Successful property development is all about managing risks and returns. ARGUS Developer is a purpose-built software for building robust pro forma and feasibility analysis that can be easily updated as timelines and costs change, giving you a reliable end-to-end property development management solution.
With ARGUS Developer, you get:
About us
Altus Group is a leading provider of software, data solutions, and technology-enabled expert services to the global commercial real estate industry.
A trusted partner to the commercial real estate industry for more than 30 years, we provide end-to-end commercial real estate solutions empowering our clients to gain insights, manage risk and drive investment performance.
Countries worldwide using ARGUS solutions
200+
Universities and colleges teaching ARGUS
30+
Years developing CRE software
7,000
Active ARGUS software clients
105+
Real estate development pro forma software
Leverage industry-leading development pro forma software to help you identify viable opportunities, secure project funding and minimize risk.
End-to-end management of your development projects
Easily build your development pro forma with a simple to use input screen
Leverage financing templates to help you secure financing
Get an accurate view of your project cash flow by importing actual costs
Manage complex, multi-staged development projects
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Investment Acquisition
Run feasibility analysis, due diligence, and origination to secure opportunities
Why use ARGUS Developer?
Gain a transparent view into the financial performance of your development project, for better monitoring, reporting and returns
Optimized project performance
Identify key variables that affect value and cashflow and compare scenarios to make good decisions
Internal & investor reporting
Provide exhaustive and accurate reports to your stakeholders, even with tight deadlines
Insights driven planning
Update assumptions informed by market research and impact analysis of KPIs.