The acquisition underwriter for residential builders

Stop touring properties
that never had a chance.

Buildable screens your whole territory before you leave the office. It reveals the parcels with hidden building potential, exposes the ones whose flood, frontage, geometry or zoning make them dead ends, and hands you the few worth pursuing before another builder sees them.

Buildable Territory is exclusive: one builder per county.

Available×Buildable=Actionable
The screen runs before you do

Every locality starts as every lot. Each pass takes almost all of them away, so your time lands only on the survivors.

Every parcel in the metro
12 Richmond-area localities
500,000+lots analyzed
Passes the zoning ordinance
Cited, district by district
fewerrule-eligible
Fits the real geometry & overlays
Frontage, footprints, flood & wetland
fewer stillphysically buildable
Actually pencils
Priced against six-month comps
the fewworth a call
The point of the product is the subtraction. Under-surfacing is survivable. Wasting your week on ten thousand rows is not.
500,000+
parcels analyzed across the Richmond metro
12
Virginia localities · Richmond City & 11 counties
195
zoning districts cited to the county ordinance
≤ 6 mo
sale comps behind every economic read
X-ray vision on every parcel

See the play others miss, and the problem they'd find too late.

Every lot gets the four reads a builder does by hand, run in advance. That surfaces the lot split, duplex, teardown or infill others overlook, and exposes the creek, floodplain, missing frontage or dead building envelope that turns a promising parcel into a wasted afternoon.

01

The zoning ordinance, cited

Setbacks, minimum lot width, allowed uses, all read from the actual county code, not a national approximation. Each rule points back to the section it came from. Where a standard couldn't be confirmed, it's marked unconfirmed, never guessed.

195 zoning districts cited to their local ordinance
02

The parcel's real geometry

Measured building footprints and road frontage, so "you could split this lot" means it physically fits, with a buildable envelope on the far side, not just that the acreage is large enough on paper.

Statewide road & footprint data on every locality
03

The environmental overlays

Every lot checked against the FEMA flood maps and the resource-protection, wetland and waterbody layers. A "clean" half-acre that's two-thirds inside a protected buffer gets caught here, before you drive out to it.

Flood & RPA screening wired in all 12 localities
04

Whether it actually pencils

Every deal is priced against sold comparables current within six months, and run through the same value model that flagged real below-basis buys in our backtest. The question isn't "is this a lot." It's "does this project make money for you."

Economics on every surfaced deal, not a select few
What a call looks like

One below-basis buy, the way Buildable states it.

The estimator sees only sales that had already closed on the buy date. When it says a property is priced well under its neighborhood basis, it shows the comps, the spread, and what you still have to confirm.

Case on file · public recordIn February 2022, 2208 5th Ave in Richmond's Highland Park sold for $75,000. Buildable's model, using only sales already on the books, valued it at $271,535 as-is. Twenty months later it resold for $420,000. The claim is that the entry was underpriced, and the flag proved it.

Every call arrives with
  • The project it fits: split, duplex, teardown or infill
  • What it's worth, and whether it pencils
  • The evidence: comps, citations, overlays
  • What could kill it: the fatal constraint, named
  • What to verify next, before you drive out
Measured, not asserted

We replayed 1,737 real deals through the same math that prices your parcels.

Every property in five metro localities that was bought and resold, replayed through today's estimator, shown only what was knowable on the buy date. Did the buys our math flagged as below-basis go on to make money, beyond what the rising market handed everyone?

~9 / mo
below-basis buys the flag would have surfaced, metro-wide
88%
of them went on to beat the national flip benchmark (ATTOM, 25.5% gross)
$152k
median realized profit on a flagged deal, ~8.6 month median hold

This is a historical backtest of the pricing signal, not a promise of returns. Figures cover the flip channel and describe other buyers' outcomes on deals Buildable's math would have flagged. Profit is gross, measured against below-basis entry, not a predicted exit. Splits, redevelopment and ground-up projects are evaluated separately, on cited ordinance and measured geometry.

Why builders trust it

It tells you what it doesn't know.

A lead-gen tool is rewarded for showing you more. Buildable is built to show you less, and to be honest about the edges, because a wrong "strong" costs you a wasted week and your trust.

Unconfirmed is labeled, not guessed. Where a locality's ordinance couldn't be pinned to a citation, the rule is flagged, never filled in with a neighbor's number.

"Verify on the ground" is a real answer. When the data can't settle it, the parcel says so instead of manufacturing confidence.

Every read shows its work. The zoning citation, the comps, the overlay that killed it, all laid out so you can check the reasoning, not just the verdict.

One builder per county

Your territory is yours. We don't sell the same county twice.

Buildable is exclusive by design. When you hold a county, the intelligence for it is yours alone: the opposite of a lead list every other builder in the market can buy by the seat. You move first on what they can't see.

Claim your county
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The Richmond metro is live. Your locality not on the map? Tell us. New ground gets added county by county.

Start the conversation

Request your territory.

Tell us the county you build in. We'll show you what Buildable has already found there, and whether it's still open.

Opens your email to territory@gobuildable.com · you'll reach the founder directly.