The three subdivision scenarios

Each scenario takes the same land parcel and target density on fee-simple subdivided lots and changes only how the home is built — site-built, CrossMod, or traditional manufactured housing. Land + home are sold in every case. Adjust inputs on the other tabs; every number updates live.

1 · Fee-Simple Subdivision — Site-Built SaleStandard subdivided lots; stick-built homes. Highest build cost, slowest, longest carry.
2 · CrossMod Subdivision SaleIdentical lots; factory-built CrossMod on a permanent foundation — appraises & finances like site-built. Faster, lower build cost.
3 · Traditional MH / Subdivision SaleIdentical lots; traditional HUD-code manufactured home on a permanent foundation. Lowest build cost per sf.
4 · Traditional Land-Lease Community optionalOff by default. Single-title community; developer leases pads, valued on NOI. Toggle on via Scenario Assumptions.

Developer profit by scenario

Total development cost stack

Parcel, density & infrastructure

Land size and density drive the unit count; unit count and lot frontage drive the linear feet of roadway, which sizes road and trunk-utility cost. Toggle municipal vs. private servicing to compare.

Parcel & yield

Used to estimate roadway length
Collector / cul-de-sac overhead
Roadway estimate assumes double-loaded streets (lots both sides): road LF = units × (frontage ÷ 2) × efficiency. Override frontage/efficiency to match a real plat.

Servicing rate cards — municipal vs private

These are the shared rate cards. Each scenario picks its own Private or Municipal servicing on the Scenario Assumptions tab, so you can compare (say) a municipally-serviced fee-simple subdivision against a privately-serviced land-lease community. Private = lower-spec roads + per-lot septic & well (no trunk mains). Municipal = full urban road section + water/sewer mains per linear foot + per-lot connection.

Roadway $ / linear foot
Curb, gutter, sidewalk, dedication
Trunk utilities $ / linear foot
Decentralized = none
Water + sewer mains

Per-lot horizontal & home costs

These are your editable, deal-specific line items. Site/horizontal costs apply per developed lot; home/vertical costs depend on the product. For fee-simple scenarios (1–3): septic & well apply under private servicing, the municipal connection under municipal. The land-lease community (Scenario 4) is single-title with its own communal pad & utility inputs on the Scenario Assumptions tab.

Site / horizontal — per lot

Total land = acres × this

Home / vertical — per unit

Scenario 4 home handling
Traditional MHC: developer leases pads, residents own homes
Only if developer supplies homes

Soft costs, contingency & developer fee

Scenario-specific assumptions

Pricing, lot rent, build pace and return targets per scenario. Financing terms are shared. Speed differences flow straight into carrying cost and IRR.

Shared financing & return targets

On cost, sale scenarios

Sc.1 — Fee-Simple Subdivision (Site-Built)

Sc.2 — CrossMod Subdivision

Sc.3 — Traditional MH / Subdivision

Sc.4 — Traditional Land-Lease Community optional

Results — full comparison

Every line item for all four scenarios, each under its own chosen servicing mode (set on the Scenario Assumptions tab). Sale scenarios are valued on sell-out; lease scenarios on capitalized stabilized NOI.

The shareable link packs every input into the URL so anyone who opens it sees your exact scenario — computed live in their own browser. Nothing is saved server-side.

Speed: months to full delivery / stabilization

Capital: peak equity & peak debt

Required price / lot rent & cap-rate sensitivity

The price (sale scenarios) or monthly lot/pad rent (lease scenarios) needed to hit your target developer margin — and how the lease scenarios' required rent and asset value move with the exit cap rate.

Required outcome to hit target margin

Sale scenarios solve for the sale price that delivers the target margin on cost (grossed up for commission). Lease scenarios solve for the monthly rent whose capitalized NOI covers development cost plus the target margin.

Lease scenarios — required rent vs cap rate

Cap-rate sensitivity grid — required monthly rent

Methodology & assumptions

This tool unifies two Nadi underwriting models — the phased subdivision proforma (for-sale, monthly cash-flow, debt/equity, IRR) and the MHC residual land-value model (lease, NOI ÷ cap rate) — so a single parcel and density can be run through four tenure structures on a like-for-like basis.

Yield & roadway

Units = round(acres × density). Roadway length assumes double-loaded streets: road LF = units × (lot frontage ÷ 2) × efficiency factor. The efficiency factor (default 1.20) captures collector roads, cul-de-sac bulbs and plat inefficiency. Roadway length drives both road construction and (under municipal servicing) trunk water/sewer cost.

Servicing: municipal vs private

Private / decentralized: lower-spec private roads, no trunk mains, and per-lot septic + well. Municipal / centralized: full urban road section, water & sewer mains priced per linear foot of road, plus a per-lot municipal connection in place of septic/well. Each scenario selects its own servicing mode, so a municipally-serviced fee-simple subdivision and a privately-serviced land-lease community can be compared side by side, each with its own road and trunk cost.

Cost stack (all scenarios)

Land (acres × $/acre) + Horizontal infrastructure (road + trunk) + Per-lot site (perk, clearing, pad, impact, power, and septic/well or municipal connection) + Home / vertical + FoundationHard cost. Soft costs, contingency and developer fee are taken as % of hard. Financing cost = capitalized construction-loan interest over the build/carry period + origination fee.

Scenario logic

1 · Fee-Simple Subdivision (Site-Built): full fee-simple lots; vertical cost = site-built home at $/sf × home size (foundation included). Revenue = sale price (home + lot) net of commission. Highest build cost, slowest pace, longest carry.

2 · CrossMod Subdivision: identical land/horizontal cost; vertical = CrossMod build ($/sf × size) + delivery + AC + permanent foundation. CrossMod appraises and finances like site-built, so revenue is a single home-plus-lot sale. Faster set pace shortens carry.

3 · Traditional MH Subdivision: identical land/horizontal cost; vertical = traditional HUD-code MH build ($/sf × size, priced below CrossMod) + delivery + AC + permanent foundation. Home + lot sold. Lowest home cost of the three products.

4 · Traditional land-lease community (optional — toggle on): land held under a single title (no fee-simple lot creation), MH on a temporary foundation with skirting. Developer leases pads; by default residents own their homes (developer vertical home cost = 0, optionally toggled on with a resale margin). Road and trunk are taken from the roadway-LF model under the scenario's servicing choice; per-pad costs use communal water/sewer (private) or a municipal connection, plus pad/grading/power and the temporary foundation. Valued as stabilized NOI ÷ cap rate — the residual land-value approach from the Muskoka MHC model.

Speed & carrying cost

Months-to-delivery = site-work duration + product lead + units ÷ monthly pace. A monthly cash-flow loop draws debt up to LTC of cumulative cost (capped), capitalizes interest, and repays from sales/refinance proceeds; total capitalized interest is the carrying-cost figure, and the monthly net-equity series produces the IRR and equity multiple.

Required price / rent

Sale: price = (cost per unit × (1 + target margin)) ÷ (1 − commission). Lease: the monthly rent whose capitalized NOI equals development cost × (1 + target margin), solved across a 5.25%–8.0% cap-rate range.

Lease cash flow & institutional KPIs

All four scenarios now run through one monthly debt/equity engine: construction draws sized to LTC of cost, interest capitalized on the outstanding balance, and proceeds (home sales, lease NOI, and the capitalized asset value at stabilization) sweeping the loan before equity — so the lease scenarios are no longer closed-form approximations. Yield-to-cost = stabilized NOI ÷ development cost; the spread to the going-in cap rate is goal-tracked (default 2.5%). Value-added % = realized/capitalized value ÷ all-in cost − 1, goal-tracked at 30% — mirroring the developer value-add and yield-to-cost tests in the Brief LLC institutional proforma.

Important caveats

Defaults are U.S. exurban placeholders (USD, 2026) for early-stage feasibility and scenario discussion — not a substitute for quoted civil, modular, utility and financing terms. Replace defaults with deal-specific figures before lender or investor use. Lease valuations assume stabilized going-in cap rates and do not model lease-up rent loss beyond the occupancy haircut.