X-ray vision for residential builders

Stop touring properties
that never had a chance.

Buildable screens every parcel in your county against local zoning, real geometry, environmental constraints, and your economics—then hands you the few worth pursuing, the price the evidence supports, and the next thing to verify.

Show me what you found in my county See a real opportunity brief

One builder per county. Richmond metro analyzed today.

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
Passes preliminary economics
Priced against six-month comps
the fewworth full underwriting
The point of the product is the subtraction. Buildable removes the noise so you can focus on the properties with real potential.
Here is what Buildable hands you

A decision-ready brief—not another row in a database.

Open one property and see the proposed play, the evidence behind it, the constraint most likely to kill it, and the next step to confirm before you spend time in the field.

Decision brief · 219 Willow Bend Road

Split off a lot and build a second home.

R-2A zoning · 1.18 acres · two preliminary lots clear the area and width screen.

StrongWorth pursuing5 of 7 checks confirmed
Existing houseNew lotProposed divisionEngine hypothesis · not a recorded plat
Zoning pathwayOrdinance-citedR-2A lot division standards
GeometryPreliminary passArea + estimated width
EnvironmentalMapped clearFlood · wetlands · RPA

Illustrative property and economics. The layout is informed by the live product; Buildable is a feasibility screen, not entitlement or a recorded plat.

Use your economics

The best play changes when your costs do.

Adjust the acquisition price, build cost, and required return. Buildable reranks the parcel and recalculates what the project can support.

Illustrative · live
Your assumptions
Selected scenario

Split off a lot & build a second home

Modeled project spread $301,380

Worth pursuing · 88% modeled ROI

Projected combined value
$684,000
All-in project cost
$382,620
Max supportable land basis
$358,220

Preliminary model using a 1,072 sq ft second home, estimated subdivision costs, and selling/carrying costs. Not an offer recommendation.

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 merits full underwriting

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 merely “is this a lot?” It is “does the early evidence justify a deeper look?”

Economics on every surfaced deal, not a select few
500,000+
parcels analyzed across the Richmond metro
12
Virginia localities · Richmond City & 11 counties
195
zoning districts cited to the county ordinance
1 builder
per county · protected territory intelligence is never sold twice
Proof of the pricing signal

A real purchase Buildable would have flagged.

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 recordUsing only sales that had closed by the February 2022 purchase date, Buildable estimated a neighborhood-supported as-is value of $271,535. The property was acquired for $75,000 and resold twenty months later for $420,000. Buildable would have identified the purchase as substantially below the neighborhood basis. Renovation, financing, holding, and transaction costs are not available and are not included.

Every opportunity brief includes
  • The project it fits: split, duplex, teardown or infill
  • The preliminary price read, and why it merits underwriting
  • 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 outperform the broader flip benchmark?

~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 gross resale spread 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. “Gross resale spread” is recorded resale price minus recorded purchase price; renovation, financing, carrying, and transaction costs are not included. Splits, redevelopment, and ground-up projects are evaluated separately using 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.

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.

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.

What comes with your Buildable Territory

A protected acquisition pipeline built around your economics.

Built for residential builders actively acquiring land in a defined local market—not for people collecting another list of leads.

01

Builder Economics Blueprint

We learn the construction costs, required margin, project types, and buy box that determine whether an opportunity deserves your attention.

02

Protected Territory Pipeline

Decision-worthy properties are screened across your county and reserved for one builder—not resold to every competitor in the market.

03

Decision-ready briefs

See the proposed play, preliminary price read, supporting evidence, leading constraint, and next verification step in one place.

04

Founder-reviewed onboarding

Your first shortlist gets a human review while Buildable calibrates the territory screen to the work your company actually wants.

The Buildable Territory Guarantee

A territory advantage backed by real money and measurable outcomes.

We contribute to your first serious property investigation, protect your first 30 days, and keep working until Buildable produces a property worth pursuing.

Up to $1,500

First Property Feasibility Credit

When you choose your first Buildable-sourced property for serious investigation, Buildable contributes up to $1,500 toward approved pre-acquisition diligence.

Use it for an approved survey, soil evaluation, zoning verification, utility-feasibility review, or similar diligence expense.
30 days

Decide with every dollar protected

Try Buildable Territory for 30 days. If you do not believe it gives you a meaningful acquisition advantage, we refund every dollar—no questions asked.

If you leave, the territory is permanently released and may be offered to another builder.
90 days

Get a qualified property—or stop paying

If Buildable does not surface at least one property worthy of real outreach or diligence within your first 90 days, your payments pause until it does.

Stay protected while Buildable keeps working the territory.

Credits, qualification standards, eligibility, and guarantee terms are defined in your territory agreement.

Why we exist

Built for a builder who never had an acquisition team.

My stepdad builds spec homes in Chesterfield. Like many local builders, he knew his market deeply but still had to find land through relationships, driving, and instinct. I built Buildable to give him the parcel-level screening and market coverage normally reserved for much larger operators.

— Jacob H. Fox, founder of Buildable

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
Analyzed today
Richmond City Chesterfield Henrico Hanover Goochland Powhatan New Kent Charles City Caroline King William Louisa King & Queen

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

Straight answers

What builders usually ask.

Is this a replacement for my realtor or land relationships?

No. Buildable gives your existing acquisition network wider coverage and faster early screening. It helps you know where to focus your relationships and diligence.

Are surfaced properties confirmed buildable?

No. They have passed a preliminary feasibility screen. Buildable shows its evidence and unknowns, but a surveyor, engineer, attorney, locality, and your own team must confirm the project.

What exactly is exclusive?

Buildable sells a county to one builder at a time. Another builder cannot buy the same protected territory opportunity pipeline while your agreement is active.

What project types can it identify?

The screen can surface lot splits, duplex or attached-density possibilities, teardown candidates, residential infill, and below-basis entries where the local data supports the read.

What happens after I request a territory?

You’ll speak directly with the founder, confirm your target county and buy box, and review what Buildable has already found before deciding whether to move forward.

Start the conversation

See what Buildable has already found.

Tell us the county you build in. We’ll show you what is worth a closer look—and whether the territory is still available.

Show me my county

Takes about two minutes. You’ll reach the founder directly.