PROPERTY & DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

Property development, precisely managed — from feasibility to final sales.

For property developments of every scale, from knockdown rebuilds to dual occupancy, townhouses, multi-use projects and beyond, Shape Property Development & Management turns potential into reality by managing the full development process on behalf of clients and partners.

 

Our expertise lies in property development management, from early-stage site assessment and acquisition through to feasibility, approvals, construction oversight, and final delivery.

 

We work closely with developers, landowners, investors, consultants, and builders to bring design-led developments to life, balancing design intent, market demand, and financial performance.

 

With years of experience and deep industry networks, we guide each project with clarity and purpose, ensuring timelines, budgets, risks, and quality are aligned from day one.

 

Whether you’re looking to develop and hold, develop and sell, or partner to unlock value without taking on the full risk, we bring the clarity, strategy, and confidence to make it happen.

 

From concept to completion, Shape Property Developments delivers more than outcomes — we deliver confidence.

 

The difference?

You’ll feel it long before the first slab is poured.

Our Development Management Services

At Shape Property Development & Management, we offer two ways to work with us, depending on how
involved you’d like us to be, and how aligned you want us with your project’s outcome.

Fixed-Fee Development Management Services

A stage-by-stage consulting model.

 

Perfect if you’re testing the waters or want support for just one part of the process.

 

You keep control, we provide the expertise.

 

✔️ Fixed costs per stage

✔️ Great for feasibility, design, or funding support

✔️ Easy to step in/out as you need

🔒 You manage the rest

❌ Less alignment between us and your project outcome

❌ No ongoing site/project management

Phase 1: 🔍 Site Discovery & Acquisition

Get ahead of the market, and avoid the mistakes most others make.

📍 Uncover viable and financially feasible development opportunities, without the need to lift a finger. 

  • Initial strategy session
  • Site sourcing
  • Planning controls & zoning review (LEP, DCP, overlays)
  • Yield analysis (what can be built)
  • Preliminary development scheme options
  • High-level construction cost estimates
  • End value & margin projections
  • Market analysis for the proposed end product
  • Risk profile and key constraints
  • Summary report with ‘highest and best use’ recommendation & ‘go/no-go’ outcome
  • Vendor Due Diligence Reports (pre-acquisition)

Ideal for landowners, buyers, or agents seeking clarity before taking action.

Phase 2: 📝 Site Review & Feasibility 

Confidence before commitment, know if your project truly stacks up before committing.

📍 Clarify the site’s potential before you commit time or money

  • Initial strategy session

  • Planning controls & zoning assessment (LEP, DCP, overlays)

  • Yield analysis (what you can build)

  • Preliminary development scheme options

  • High-level construction cost estimates

  • End value and margin projections

  • Market analysis for end product

  • Risk profile and key constraints

  • Report summary with ‘highest and best use’ recommendation

  • Optional: Vendor Due Diligence Report (if pre-acquisition)

✅ Ideal for: landowners, buyers, or agents wanting clarity on a site’s true potential.

Phase 3: 🎨  Design & Approvals

Shape a design the market wants, more efficiently and with less stress.

📍 Get the right approvals, with the right team

  • Concept design brief

  • Consultant procurement (architects, surveyors, planners, etc.)

  • Design and layout coordination

  • DA submission management

  • Council liaison and RFI responses

  • Strategy around staging, subdivision, and yield maximisation

  • Risk mitigation planning (e.g. bushfire, flooding, SEPP compliance)

  • Coordination of any required reports (traffic, arborist, etc.)

✅ Ideal for those who’ve committed to a project and want efficient, high-yield approvals.

Phase 4: 💸 Project Financing

Secure smart funding, and structure it to protect your downside.

📍 Structure the right funding solution, without overpaying for capital

  • Development cost breakdown and cash flow forecasting

  • Finance readiness pack (budgets, feasibility, project scope)

  • Assistance with construction loan, JV funding, or private lending

  • Lender introduction and broker coordination

  • Assistance negotiating funding terms

  • Risk/reward and capital stack strategy

  • Optional: equity partner introductions (depending on deal)

✅ Ideal for developers needing smart funding or landowners exploring partner structures.

Phase 5: 🏗️ Construction Management

Deliver with confidence. We manage the complexity, so you can focus on the outcome.

📍 Protect your build, without taking on a second job

  • Builder tendering and negotiation

  • Contract review support

  • Site establishment planning

  • Consultant coordination (engineers, certifiers)

  • Monthly project check-ins or reporting

  • Builder progress claim review

  • PCG attendance (if applicable)

  • Issue and delay management

  • Quality and cost control oversight

  • Variation review and tracking

✅ Ideal for anyone who wants peace of mind through the build process.

Phase 6: 🤝 Sales, Marketing & Settlement

Maximise your return, with a strategy built for today’s buyers.

📍 Maximise your return and exit cleanly

  • Project branding and narrative positioning

  • Agent tender and selection

  • Pricing strategy and stock release planning

  • Marketing collateral oversight (renders, brochures, video, etc.)

  • Pre-sale strategy or EOI process (if applicable)

  • Contract review with sales agent/solicitor

  • Coordination of settlement and final inspections

  • Oversight of project wrap-up, defects, and reconciliations

  • Optional: rental vs sale decision support (for retained stock)

✅ Ideal for those ready to extract maximum value, without dropping the ball at the finish line.

Fixed-Fee Development Management Options

A stage-by-stage consulting model.

 

Perfect if you’re testing the waters or want support for just one part of the process.

 

You keep control — we provide the expertise.

 

✔️ Fixed costs per stage

✔️ Great for feasibility, design, or funding support

✔️ Easy to step in/out as you need

🔒 You manage the rest

 

❌ Less alignment between us and your project outcome

❌ No ongoing site/project management

Ready to make sure your property development is a success with our Fixed-Fee Options?

From site sourcing through to sales and delivery, our fixed-service options give you access to expert guidance exactly where you need it, and nowhere you don’t.
We help you stay in control, avoid costly mistakes, and make confident decisions at every step.

Enquire now to get tailored support with no ongoing commitment required.  👇🏼

Full Service Development Management

We become your partner in delivery.

 

We manage the entire process from planning to sale — with your goals at the centre.

 

✔️ End-to-end service

✔️ One point of contact

✔️ Access to our network, systems, and delivery experience

✔️ Clear outcome alignment: we only win when your project succeeds

 

📝 Already used our fixed-fee services?

We credit 100% of those payments toward your full-service fee — so there’s no double-up.

Start Your Development Journey Today With Our Full Service Development Management!

We take on a limited number of new developments to ensure each and every project gets the focus, attention, and quality it deserves.

If you’re considering a project and want expert support from feasibility through to delivery, reach out via our ‘Schedule A Call‘ button below. 👇🏼

Our Development Management Services

At Shape Property Development & Management, we offer two ways to work with us,
depending on how involved you’d like us to be, and how aligned you want us with your project’s outcome.

FIXED-FEE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PACKAGES

FULL SERVICE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

 

A stage-by-stage consulting model.

 

Perfect if you’re testing the waters or want support for just one part of the process.

 

You keep control — we provide the expertise.

 

✔️ Fixed costs per stage

✔️ Great for feasibility, design, or funding support

✔️ Easy to step in/out as you need

🔒 You manage the rest

❌ Less alignment between us and your project outcome

❌ No ongoing site/project management

 

We become your partner in delivery.

 

We manage the entire process from planning to sale — with your goals at the centre.

 

✔️ End-to-end service

✔️ One point of contact

✔️ Access to our network, systems, and delivery experience

✔️ Clear outcome alignment: we only win when your project succeeds

 

📝 Already used our fixed-fee services?

We credit 100% of those payments toward your full-service fee — so there’s no double-up.

Fixed-Fee Development Management Services

🎯 Phase 1: Site Discovery & Acquisition

 

Get ahead of the market, and avoid the mistakes most others make.

Strategy & Brief:

  • Discovery session to understand financial position, goals, and development appetite
  • Creation of a site acquisition brief (target price, zoning, typology, yield)
  • Education on risk and return trade-offs (so clients make better decisions)\

Site Search & Review:

  • Access to on-market and off-market opportunities via your agent/developer network
  • Basic feasibility checks on shortlisted sites (FSR, height, overlays, yield range, sales comps)
  • Outline of highest and best use strategies per site
  • Preliminary planning risk flagging (bushfire, flood, heritage, acoustic, contamination, etc.)

Due Diligence & Negotiation

  • Assistance reviewing contracts and key planning documents
  • Support negotiating terms, price, and (if relevant) joint venture structuring
  • Liaison with buyer’s solicitor and agent to help move toward exchange
  • Optional: Full feasibility report (at additional cost)

✅ Ideal for: time poor developers and investors seeking a high quality opportunities

🧱 Phase 2: Site Review & Feasibility

 

Confidence before commitment,  know if your project truly stacks up before committing.

 

  • Initial strategy session
  • Planning controls & zoning assessment (LEP, DCP, overlays)
  • Yield analysis (what you can build)
  • Preliminary development scheme options
  • High-level construction cost estimates
  • End value and margin projections
  • Market analysis for end product
  • Risk profile and key constraints
  • Report summary with ‘highest and best use’ recommendation
  • Optional: Vendor Due Diligence Report (if pre-acquisition)

 

✅ Ideal for: landowners, buyers, or agents wanting clarity on a site’s true potential.

🎨 Phase 3: Design & Approvals

 

Shape a design the market wants, more efficiently and with less stress.

 

  • Concept design brief
  • Consultant procurement (architects, surveyors, planners, etc.)
  • Design and layout coordination
  • DA submission management
  • Council liaison and RFI responses
  • Strategy around staging, subdivision, and yield maximisation
  • Risk mitigation planning (e.g. bushfire, flooding, SEPP compliance)
  • Coordination of any required reports (traffic, arborist, etc.)

 

✅ Ideal for those who’ve committed to a project and want efficient, high-yield approvals.

💸 Phase 4: Project Financing

 

Secure smart funding, and structure it to protect your downside.

 

  • Development cost breakdown and cash flow forecasting
  • Finance readiness pack (budgets, feasibility, project scope)
  • Assistance with construction loan, JV funding, or private lending
  • Lender introduction and broker coordination
  • Assistance negotiating funding terms
  • Risk/reward and capital stack strategy
  • Optional: equity partner introductions (depending on deal)

 

✅ Ideal for developers needing smart funding or landowners exploring partner structures.

🏗️ Phase 5: Construction Management

 

Deliver with confidence. We manage the complexity ,  so you can focus on the outcome.

 

  • Builder tendering and negotiation
  • Contract review support (with your solicitor)
  • Site establishment planning
  • Consultant coordination (engineers, certifiers)
  • Monthly project check-ins or reporting
  • Builder progress claim review
  • PCG attendance (if applicable)
  • Issue and delay management
  • Quality and cost control oversight
  • Variation review and tracking
  •  

✅ Ideal for anyone who wants peace of mind through the build process.

🤝 Phase 6: Sale, Marketing & Settlement

 

Maximise your return,  with a strategy built for today’s buyers.

 

  • Project branding and narrative positioning
  • Agent tender and selection
  • Pricing strategy and stock release strategy
  • Marketing collateral oversight (renders, brochures, video, etc.)

  • Pre-sale strategy or EOI process (if applicable)

  • Contract review with sales agent/solicitor

  • Coordination of settlement and final inspections

  • Oversight of project wrap-up, defects, and reconciliations

  • Optional: rental vs sale decision support (for retained stock)

 

✅ Ideal for those who want to to extract maximum value, without dropping the ball at the finish line.

 

Full Service Development Management

Full-Service Development Management

Property & Site Acquisition

Strategic Project Planning

Development Market Research

Site Yield Analyses

Feasibility Analyses

Highest & Best Use Analyses

Architectural & Interior Design

Risk Identification & Mitigation

Value Engineering & Maximisation

Procurement and Tendering

Development Finance

Project Co-ordination

Cost, Time & Cashflow Management

Project & Construction Management

Construction Quality Assurance

Marketing

Sales Campaign Management

Ready to make sure your property development is a success?

We take on a limited number of new developments to ensure each and every project gets the focus, attention, and quality it deserves.

If you’re considering a project and want expert support from feasibility through to delivery, let’s start the conversation today. 👇🏼