Principals
A principal authorizes the engagement. The packet is written for the owner-developer who will spend next.
Professional Feasibility Study
A licensed architect confirms what the parcel can support. A licensed general contractor states what it costs and how long it takes to build.
The engagement
This is a fixed-fee professional engagement on a specific site: licensed confirmation of what the parcel can support, plus cost and duration from the delivery team. It is not a software score, a zoning extract, or a lender market study.
Who this is for
Funds and owners
Institutional funds and property owners who need a licensed execution packet on a named parcel, not a software score.
Brokers and agents
A broker, analyst, or agent can assemble the request. The principal accepts the fixed-fee engagement letter.
Markets
Send any parcel in a live state the same way. This is not a single-city product.
- Arizona: Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Tempe, Tucson
- California: Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento
- Nevada: Las Vegas, Reno
- Utah: Salt Lake City, Provo
- Washington: Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Spokane
- Texas: Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio (local registration as required)
- Montana: Billings, Bozeman, Missoula (contractor registration)
Oregon, Colorado, and Wyoming: expansion in process. Portland, Denver, Colorado Springs, Cheyenne, and Jackson are opened only after intake confirms both chapters. Colorado and Wyoming have no statewide general contractor license.
The architect chapter is written by a licensed architect in the project jurisdiction, assigned at intake.
How this reads
How funds should read this
This is an execution packet from the delivery team: use and massing, cost and duration. It is not an independent market or financial feasibility study for a lender or investment committee. If financing requires an unaffiliated third-party market study, commission that separately.
How this is different from TestFit, Buildability, or a zoning extract
Those tools do not produce a licensed-architect confirmation of allowable uses and massing, or a licensed-GC opinion of cost and duration.
How it starts
Send the address or APN, the intended use, and whether drawings exist.
We confirm the site can be staffed and issue a fixed-fee engagement letter. Work begins when that letter is accepted and the required materials are in hand.
Need routing only? Ask for a free brief. It recommends which engagement fits and what inputs are missing. It is not a professional opinion.
info@synmod.com
(480) 757-4585 · (800) 385-8755
Fees
| Engagement | Fixed fee |
|---|---|
| First Look | $2,500 |
| Plans Estimate | $7,700 |
| Professional Feasibility | $14,900 |
First Look: $2,500
Should this parcel take more of your time?
You receive a site-specific screening memo: published zoning at first-look depth, a conceptual cost and duration range, and a go, restructure, or stop with what to gather next. Screening memo only. Conceptual class of estimate. Not a stamped opinion or a bid.
The First Look fee is credited to Professional Feasibility on the same parcel when that later engagement is opened in writing.
Plans Estimate: $7,700
When drawings exist: what does construction cost, and how long does it take?
A licensed or properly registered general contractor authors a cost opinion and a duration opinion. The estimate class follows the completeness of the set. Licensed GC cost and duration opinion for the drawing set. Not a GMP, and not architect massing.
Professional Feasibility: $14,900
The packet most principals want before they commit.
A licensed architect in the project jurisdiction authors allowable uses and massing: planning and zoning review, confirmation with the city or county when the study requires it, and initial massing. A licensed or properly registered general contractor authors cost and duration for that massing.
Architect chapter on allowable uses and massing; GC chapter on cost and duration for that massing. Excludes market study, appraisal, Phase I, and construction contract.
Outside this fee
Survey, geotech, Phase I, traffic, hydrology, will-serve, title, appraisal, permit filing, hearings, CEQA/NEPA, GMP, bid, construction contract, design past the massing chapter, off-site infrastructure.
Schedule is set when the engagement is opened.
Questions principals ask
Can we get a professional feasibility study on a parcel in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Austin, or Dallas?
Yes, when intake can staff that parcel. Those MSAs sit in live states for this engagement. Same packet, same fees. Send the address or APN to info@synmod.com and request Professional Feasibility at $14,900, or start at First Look for $2,500, which credits to Feasibility on the same site.
What about San Diego, Orange County, the Bay Area, Sacramento, Reno, Provo, Bellevue, Spokane, Houston, San Antonio, Tucson, Billings, or Bozeman?
Same rule. If the parcel is in a live state above, request the engagement. We confirm staffing before the letter goes out.
What about Portland, Denver, or Jackson Hole?
Oregon, Colorado, and Wyoming are in process. Ask. Do not assume they are live until intake says both chapters can be staffed.
How is this different from TestFit, Buildability, or a zoning extract?
Those tools do not produce a licensed-architect confirmation of allowable uses and massing, or a licensed-GC opinion of cost and duration.
Can our broker or an agent open this?
Yes. They send the parcel, intended use, drawings yes or no, and the product requested. The principal accepts the fixed-fee engagement. No agent should complete a purchase on your behalf.
Request the engagement
Send the parcel, intended use, and whether drawings exist. Synergy issues a fixed-fee engagement letter. Work starts when that letter is accepted and the files are in.
info@synmod.com
(480) 757-4585 · (800) 385-8755