SYDNEY, NSW · DEVELOPMENT FEASIBILITY
Development Feasibility Consultant Sydney
Know what your site can deliver. Know what it will cost. Before you commit capital.
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Test a site's numbers and planning risk together, not as two separate reports
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Your interests represented exclusively, not the vendor's, the architect's or the agent's
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A clear read on development potential, financial feasibility and approval pathway, in days
100%
Client-Side Representation
15+ Years
of Complex-Site Delivery
$580M+
Delivered in Built Form
Trusted by Sydney's leading developers and design consultants
Considered Feasibility for Sydney's Planning Environment
Sydney's planning environment can make or break a feasibility. LEP and DCP controls set the ceiling on what you can build. Zoning, heritage overlays, bushfire-prone land, flood overlay and other environmental constraints can erode that ceiling before a DA is even lodged. A property development that ignores these realities loses time and money it can't get back.
We assess planning risk alongside the numbers, including whether your site could move through a complying development (CDC) pathway instead of a full DA merit assessment, where planning regulations allow it. A faster approval pathway changes your holding costs and financial modelling too.
Development Feasibility Wherever You Are In Your Development Journey
APM Services runs development feasibility studies across Sydney and New South Wales, alongside development management. We stress-test a site before you buy it. We check whether an existing DA still stacks up. We work out what a site can deliver, in yield, cost and risk, with project governance from day one.
We run financial feasibility assessments alongside planning risk, not as two reports weeks apart. Every feasibility draws on real delivery experience, the same experience behind the $580 million we've built across some of the country's most constrained sites.
Why Choose APM Services For Your Feasibility Study?
The numbers that decide if a site is worth buying are rarely obvious. Stamp duty, holding costs, professional fees and development contributions can turn a viable-looking site into a loss.
Our difference:
Real numbers: construction costs, development costs, holding costs, professional fees and development contributions, modelled together, not a back-of-envelope estimate
Planning risk and planning advice built in: zoning, LEP and DCP controls, heritage, bushfire and flood overlay, assessed with the financial modelling, not after it
A residual land value you can defend: a highest and best use assessment plus a residual land value calculation that stands up to your financiers or your board
Independent advice: no financial relationship with the architect, builder or agent bringing you the site
A fast, clear answer: a feasibility that typically takes a few days, not weeks, before you know the real return on investment
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps to a feasibility study you can rely on.
Step 1: Tell Us About Your Site
Complete the enquiry form: your site details, and what you need answered.
Step 2: We Review Before We Meet
Simon Kassis reviews every submission personally before confirming a time.
Step 3: You Get a Clear Read on Your Project
We cover what your site can deliver, the numbers, the planning risk, and what a full feasibility would confirm.
What Working With APM Looks Like
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Turned a zero-profit site into a $5 million return, without buying more land
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Spotted a design change that could have saved $2-3M on one Sydney project, by coordinating structure and services before DA, not after
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Delivered a DA for around $800,000, where comparable Sydney projects spent $2-3 million
Development Feasibility Services
Site analysis and planning risk
Whether zoning and geotechnical requirements leave you with a CDC pathway or a full DA
Financial feasibility
Financial projections are weighed against gross realisation value (GRV) and profit margin
Highest and best use assessment
What your site can really deliver, against its zoning and the market
Risk assessment and risk mitigation
What could still go wrong, once sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, break-even analysis and a development constraints analysis
Development due diligence and site selection
Whether the site in front of you, or the best of several, is worth acquiring
Market research and demand analysis
Whether comparable evidence, demand analysis and marketability support the proposal
Property finance and consultant coordination
Aligning capital stack and debt funding, plus the quantity surveyor and valuer you need to sign off on the numbers
Sectors We Work Across
APM Services runs feasibility studies across residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use projects, including healthcare, education, retail, hospitality, infrastructure and heritage planning. We also assess refurbishment and fit-out opportunities.
About Us
Who you'll work with
Simon Kassis is Managing Director of APM Services, and has assessed feasibility on Sydney's most complex sites.
He started as a contracts administrator at Built, then led engineering at Toga on the 194-key hotel at 80 George Street, a 500 sqm CBD site built alongside light rail construction.
He moved client-side at Generate, working on 333 Kent Street and the DA for Canva's Sydney headquarters, before co-founding APM Services.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions we get about development feasibility
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Fees are scoped to your project's size and stage. The first consultation is free.
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Typically a few days once we have your site details, confirming what the site can deliver and your next steps.
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Private developers across Sydney: commercial, residential, industrial and land subdivision. For a site before purchase, or a second opinion on a project or DA underway.
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Both. We test zoning, LEP and DCP controls, heritage, bushfire and flood overlay, and your likely approval pathway, alongside the financial modelling.
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Yes. On one Sydney project, we took a 21-apartment scheme to 28, verified by an independent quantity surveyor before construction began.
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Simon Kassis reviews every enquiry personally, then covers what your site can deliver and what a full feasibility would confirm.
Development Feasibility: Protecting Outcomes, Increasing Yield
Request a consultation for an honest assessment of your site's potential.
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One team across feasibility, planning and delivery
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Contractor-side experience behind every assumption we test
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Experience on Sydney's most complex and constrained sites
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No obligation 30 minute consultation, reviewed personally by Simon Kassis before you meet