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Feasibility Reckoner
Development feasibility + RLV solver · monthly cashflow engine · V6
Assess Deal
RLV Solver — What's the most I can pay?
Subdivide & Build · Required Annual RoE 18%
Untitled Feasibility — Annual RoE: 13.3%
✗ Below hurdle
NPAI
$190,694
Net Profit After Int.
Margin on Cost
4.4%
Industry 15–25%
Annual RoE
13.3%
vs 18% hurdle
Project XIRR
8.9%
Unleveraged
Equity XIRR
13.4%
Post debt-service
Equity Multiple
1.22x
$ returned per $ in
Profit on Sales
4.2%
NPAI / Revenue
Peak Debt
$3,447,445
at month 20
Inputs
Cost & Returns
Cashflow
Breakevens
Sensitivity
Flow of Funds
Investor Waterfall
Hurdle Ladder
1. Project Setup
Project Name
Strategy
State
Number of Units
Scales holding costs, infra contributions & lots
Project Start
Drives cashflow column dates and XIRR
Program (months from start)
Acquisition
Construction Start
Construction Duration
Rent Start
0 rent duration = no operating period
Rent Duration
Sales Window Opens
Default = construction end + 2
Construction endsM18
Project duration (derived)20 months
Project end dateDecember 2027
1b. Escalation Profile
Inputs are today's dollars. Engine escalates each line item to its trigger date using a 5-bucket annual % curve. Year 5 rate compounds forward indefinitely. Partial-year months are prorated.
Cost: 0.0% / 0.0% / 0.0% / 0.0% / 0.0% · Rev: 0.0% / 0.0% / 0.0% / 0.0% / 0.0%
2. Acquisition
Purchase Price
Unimproved / Site Value
For land tax; default 70% of purchase price
Legals + Misc
Stamp Duty (WA, investor)$94,641
Total Acquisition$2,099,641
3. Construction & TDC
Enter ex-GST contract values (typical QS/builder convention).
Total $
$/m² × GFA
Construction Cost (total, ex-GST)
Contingency (%)
TDC$1,575,000
Advanced: construction draw curve
4. Holding Costs (Annual)
Override baseline (~$5k/unit/pa)
Council Rates ($/pa)
Water / Utilities ($/pa)
Insurance ($/pa)
Use WA Land Tax Calculator
Land Tax WA $5,350
Misc ($/pa)
Total Holding (20mo)$50,583
5. Soft Costs & Fees
Enter dollar fees ex-GST. Percentage fees apply to escalated sale prices (which are inc-GST per convention).
Professional Fees ($, ex-GST)
Town planner + QS + architect + engineering
Infra Contributions ($/unit, ex-GST)
Council contributions, DA fees, headworks
Selling Fee (% of sales)
Marketing (% of sales)
DM Fee (% of sales)
6. Finance
Acq Equity (%)
Project Equity (%)
Acq Interest Rate (% p.a.)
Project Interest Rate (% p.a.)
Investor Return Hurdles
Hurdle 1 (% p.a.)
Preferred return for investor waterfall
Hurdle 2 (% p.a.)
Project Gearing (LVR)80.0%
7. GST Treatment
Convention: enter costs ex-GST, sale prices GST-inclusive (matches standard developer practice — QS / consultant quotes are ex-GST, retail contract prices are inc-GST). Residential rent is input-taxed, so enter as paid. There is no ITC line — GST is implicit in ex-GST cost figures.
None: no GST flow. Margin scheme: GST = max(0, (escalated sales − purchase) ÷ 11). Full mode: GST = escalated sales ÷ 11.
8. Revenue — Lots / Units
Enter GST-inclusive sale prices (the contract price the buyer pays).
Sale prices in today's dollars. Sale date drives revenue escalation; settlement date drives when cash hits the cashflow. Default for both is construction end + 2 (= M20).
LabelTypeSale Price (inc-GST)Sale M#Settle M#
Gross Sales (today's $)$4,500,000
Escalated Sales (nominal)$4,500,000
9. Rent & Tax
Weekly Rent ($)
Occupancy (%)
Effective CGT Rate (%)
10. Manual Line Items
Up to 3 ad-hoc line items for one-off costs or receipts not covered by the standard inputs (demolition, council rebates, easement payments, etc.). Entered as dollars at trigger month — no escalation applied. Outflows add to Total DevEx; inflows add to Total Revenue.
No manual lines added.
Build Status — V6 — Slice 2C (May 2026)
Inherited from V4: Excel Live Model export with formula-driven Calc tab, VLOOKUP-based stamp duty + land tax across 8 states, Goal Seek instructions for RLV and three breakeven solves, full number formatting across all tabs, Investor Hurdle 1/2 inputs wired through to Investor Waterfall.

Inherited from V5:Monthly cashflow engine with per-category distribution curves (point / flat / front- & back-load / S-curve / custom). Drawdown-profiled interest with capitalisation, iterated to convergence per silo. Peak Debt KPI. 5-bucket construction draw curve override.

From V6 Slice 2A:Calendar-aware project schedule (start month + year, derived project duration), program-date inputs (acquisition / construction / rent / sales windows), per-lot sale-date and settlement-date columns, 5-bucket cost & revenue escalation profile with Y5 forward compounding and master ON/OFF switch (escalation distinct from the construction draw curve — escalation grows dollar amounts to a trigger date, the draw curve spreads an already-computed amount across construction months), Project XIRR + Equity XIRR KPI tiles, cashflow tab columns labelled with real month-year strings.

✓ NEW in V6 — Slice 2B: Three additions per the original V6 brief plus two follow-ups Josh requested. (1) Manual cashflow line items — up to 3 ad-hoc entries with label, category, amount, direction, trigger month, for one-off costs or receipts not covered by standard inputs. Outflows feed Total DevEx, inflows feed Total Revenue. Entered as dollars-at-trigger-month, no escalation applied. The monthly-drawdown debt walk picks them up automatically. (2) GST full mode — three-way selector: None / Margin scheme / Full mode. Convention: costs are entered ex-GST, sale prices inc-GST (matches standard developer practice — QS/consultant quotes are ex-GST, retail contract prices are inc-GST). Margin scheme: GST = max(0, (escalated sales − purchase) ÷ 11). Full mode: GST = escalated sales ÷ 11. No ITC reclaim line — GST is implicit in ex-GST cost figures. (3) Sensitivity tornado — new main tab; 7 axes (purchase ±10%, construction ±10%, sale prices ±10%, project rate ±10% relative, weekly rent ±20%, delay ±6 months, contingency 0%/10%); sorted by absolute NPAI swing; lazy-computed only when tab opened; Excel Sensitivity sheet exported alongside. (4) V4 closed-form interest removed — monthly-drawdown with capitalised interest is now the only path. The Excel Calc tab keeps the closed-form formula as a Goal Seek convenience; the React engine no longer offers it. (5) Test suite — 56 deterministic regression tests covering escalation maths, GST modes, manual lines, XIRR, sensitivity, breakevens, stamp duty per state, and end-to-end realistic project. Run via node test_v6.mjs.

Locked sanity numbers (all reproducible from the test suite):

V5-equivalent baseline (zero escalation, all lots @ M24, V5 timing): NPAI $113,811.71, TDC ex-escalation $1,575,000, holding $60,700 over 24 months, peak debt occurs near project end. Reproduces V5's monthly-drawdown number to the cent.

Both profiles [4/4/3/3/2] on baseline + lots @ M24: NPAI $450,099.25. Escalation factors hand-checked: f(M1) = 1.003333, f(M12) = 1.04, f(M24) = 1.0816, f(M26) = 1.087008, f(M72) = 1.193827, f(M120) = 1.193827 × 1.02⁴ — Y5 rate keeps compounding past 5 years.

GST modes (V5 timing, zero profiles, on the same baseline): None → NPAI $113,811.71 (no GST flow). Margin scheme → GST $227,272.73 = (4.5M − 2.0M) ÷ 11, NPAI −$113,461.01. Full mode → GST $409,090.91 = 4.5M ÷ 11, NPAI −$295,279.19. Full mode is the heaviest because there's no land-cost shield as in margin scheme; this matches Australian practice for new residential under standard treatment.

Sensitivity tornado on baseline: Sale Prices is the dominant driver at ±$432k NPAI per ±10% (≈ 5 lots × $900k × 10% × 96% net of commissions). Order: Sale Prices > Purchase Price > Construction > Delay > Contingency > Project Rate > Rent. Rent axis is zero in the default project because rentDuration = 0; tests confirm a non-zero swing once rent is enabled.

Realistic Perth project (rent runs M19→M30, both profiles 4/4/3/3/2, sale dates staggered): NPAI $31,199.88, Project XIRR 7.16%, peak debt < total cost. End-to-end smoke confirms full pipeline works.

✓ NEW in V6 — Slice 2C: Monte Carlo simulation. Multi-axis probabilistic stress test underneath the deterministic tornado on the Sensitivity tab. 500 / 1k / 5k / 10k iteration options; default 1,000 runs in ~250ms. Each iteration samples all seven drivers from independent distributions (triangular for continuous variables, discrete uniform for delay) and runs the engine once. Output: histogram of NPAI distribution, P10/P25/P50/P75/P90 percentiles for NPAI / Annual RoE / Project XIRR, plus two probability tiles — P(NPAI > 0) and P(RoE ≥ strategy hurdle). Deterministic seed (default 42) so same inputs reproduce same output. Distributions are skewed per typical residential development risk shape: construction can run +15% over but only -5% under; delay is 0 to +6 months (no early); contingency draw is 0× to 2× the input figure. Distributions are fully editable via a click-to-expand panel — each axis has an enable/disable checkbox (held at base value when off) and per-axis low/high inputs. A reset-to-defaults button restores the standard residential risk profile. Post-run "Assumed distributions for this run" table flags which axes were sampled vs held at base, so the reader can always see what was assumed. Caveat banner on the panel: P10/P90 reflect analyst assumptions, not market truth.

Deferred beyond Slice 2C:Formula-driven monthly Calc tab in Excel (kept as V4 closed-form for Goal Seek convenience by design — the iterative interest walk doesn't translate cleanly to inline formulas, would require enabling circular-reference iteration which most users don't have on). Foreign buyer surcharges. Off-the-plan / H&L pre-sale timing nuance beyond what saleDate / settlementDate split already enables. Non-creditable GST gross-up on cost cash flow in margin mode (currently user enters cost cash directly; if margin-scheme GST on costs is material, model it via a manual line item). Print/PDF view (two-page summary tab — discussed; can be added in a follow-up slice if needed).