For the person they will ring afterwards.
If a client has sent you an Asset Passport, this page tells you what it is, what it is not, and where your advice is needed. It should take a minute.
A commercial appraisal, not a survey.
A free desktop commercial appraisal of what a site could earn across the uses it suits. Up to three ranked routes, each with an indicative range, the driver behind that range, a plain reason it suits that land, and a Green, Amber or Red status. 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
Estavelle never asks a landowner to sign anything at Passport stage, and there is nothing to sign in order to receive one.
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 nothing about that puts your judgement on the line.
There is no referral fee, and there will not be one. We do not pay for introductions, because the moment we pay you, your opinion of us is worth less to your client, and your opinion of us is the only thing that makes this work.
If a client of yours sends us a site and the answer is that it is not worth doing, we will tell them plainly, and we will tell you first if you asked us to. 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 take possession of your property. It stays yours, and you keep control of who uses it and how.
- 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.
A share of what a site takes, and nothing before that.
A share of gross takings once a site is trading, and an introduction fee where a route leads to a third party such as a solar or battery developer. No fee for the appraisal, at any point, in any circumstance. Nothing on the owner side is payable before a site is trading; operators, on the other side, do pay an introduction and set-up fee for sites we find and prepare for them, agreed in writing before any work starts.
Estavelle does not buy land, does not fund construction from its own capital, and does not take possession of property. 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.