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Land residual (max offer)
Back into the most you can pay for the dirt — the subtraction stack the residual lesson refuses to compute.
Your numbers
Every figure is your input. Drag or type. The math runs here — no AI.
Revenue
$
Costs
$
% of hard
$
% of sellout
% of hard+soft
Your return
% of sellout
Residual to land (your max offer)
$436,000
the most you can pay and still hit your profit
Total costs
$1,164,000
hard + soft + financing + selling + contingency
Required profit
$400,000
20% of sellout
Land as % of sellout
21.8%
residual ÷ gross sellout
See the math
Gross sellout$2,000,000
Less hard costs-$700,000
Less soft costs (20% of hard)-$140,000
Less financing-$120,000
Less selling (6% of sellout)-$120,000
Less contingency (10% of hard+soft)-$84,000
Less required profit (20% of sellout)-$400,000
= Residual to land (max offer)$436,000
Assumptions
- Residual = gross sellout − hard costs − soft costs − financing − selling costs − contingency − required profit.
- Soft costs are a % of hard costs; selling costs and profit are a % of gross sellout; contingency is a % of (hard + soft).
- All inputs are yours, from your budget and market study. Absorption/timing is not modeled here (it belongs in a full pro-forma).
- The residual is your MAX land price, an output of your numbers — not a market value or an appraisal.
Learn the grounded prompt behind this number: Back into the max land price →
A planning estimate from your inputs, computed here (not by an AI). It is a static residual — no timing, financing draw, or absorption modeling — and only as good as the figures you enter. It is not a market value, an appraisal, or investment advice. Confirm every cost and the sellout before you offer.