A practical starting point for your client's next decision.
We assess the commercial possibilities, record the evidence and identify where specialist advice is needed. You keep your professional role. We give you and your client a clearer opportunity to assess together.
A commercial appraisal, not a survey.
A free desktop commercial record and options appraisal. Up to three ranked uses, the evidence for each, owner rules and what still needs checking. Green, Amber, Red and Needs information describe viability, separately from demand evidence. No income figures are currently published. It is prepared from information the owner supplies, without a site visit.
The mental model is a feasibility options appraisal at the earliest stage of a project, the sort of thing that sits well before anyone commissions a drawing. It is a starting point for a conversation, not an instrument to be relied on.
The limits, stated plainly.
- Not a RICS valuation, and not a Red Book valuation of any kind
- Not a measured, topographical or condition survey
- Not planning advice, and not a planning application
- Not regulated financial, tax or legal advice
- Not a basis for a lending decision
Estavelle does not produce survey, topographical or planning drawings. Where a chosen route requires them, they are commissioned from qualified professionals, and often they are never needed at all.
The questions that are yours, not ours.
Every route in a Passport is a commercial opinion, not a plan. Before a client commits to anything, these are the questions that need your judgement rather than ours.
- Whether an activity affects Agricultural Property Relief or Business Property Relief
- Whether a tenancy, mortgage or charge restricts the use
- Whether the route needs planning consent or falls within permitted development
- What the tax treatment of the income will be
- Whether any agreement offered is fair, and what it commits the client to
The initial conversation has no commercial terms. The optional detailed intake asks the owner to review its current terms; protection is agreed before identifiable details are shared. Site terms and independent advice come before occupation.
You are not recommending anything.
If a client asks whether their yard could earn, you do not have to have a view. You can pass on a name and let them find out for themselves, and an introduction costs you nothing and requires no endorsement.
We do not pay referral fees. You can introduce a client without endorsing an outcome, and any professional advice remains independent of Estavelle's commercial role.
With your client's permission, we can keep you involved as the assessment develops. Being embarrassed by a referral is a fair thing to be worried about, and it is the thing we have designed hardest against.
The four we have written down.
- We won’t start an activation before the owner has agreed the use, access, period and responsibilities.
- We won't recommend spending money on a route we haven't tested demand for.
- We won't add fees you haven't seen. If it isn't written down before you agree, we don't charge it.
- We won't tell you what you want to hear. If your site hasn't got a viable route right now, we'll say so.
An agreed fee when an arrangement goes ahead.
Landowners pay no Estavelle fee. The first conversation, desktop Asset Passport and introduction are free. Estavelle is paid through the agreed business arrangement. The fee basis, services and payment responsibilities are agreed before commitment. Physical works and professional advice are separate costs, with responsibility agreed before anything starts.
Estavelle does not buy land or fund construction from its own capital. The legal form and occupation rights for an activation are stated in its agreement. If nothing on a site is worth doing, Estavelle earns nothing from it.
You will get the founder.
If a client has asked you to look at something and you would rather talk it through, there is one person to speak to and it is the person who wrote the appraisal.