What Is a SiteFacts Report? Your Land Feasibility Cheat Code
A SiteFacts Report is a plain-English due-diligence file that tells you whether a piece of land is actually buildable, before you spend a dollar on design or closing.
Buying land is the one real-estate purchase where the listing tells you almost nothing that matters. Square footage, a photo, a price. None of it answers the only question that counts: can you actually build here, and what will it cost to make the site ready?
A SiteFacts Report answers that question before you’re financially committed.
The problem with “looks buildable”
A flat, dry, road-fronting lot can still be undevelopable. The deal-killers hide in records, not in the dirt: a zoning overlay, a missing utility connection, a wetland delineation, an access easement that was never recorded. By the time a surveyor or civil engineer surfaces them, you’ve usually already closed.
What’s inside a report
Every SiteFacts Report pulls from verified government and public data sources and organizes it into sections a normal human can read:
- Zoning, setbacks & legal compliance. What the land is allowed to become.
- Environmental & wildlife considerations. Wetlands, floodplains, protected habitat.
- Utilities & infrastructure. Real distance to water, sewer, power, and the cost implications.
- Risk factors & development costs. Slope, soils, access, and the site-work budget they imply.
- Expert analysis & summary. A plain-English verdict, not a data dump.
With vs. without
Without SiteFacts
- Find the wetland during permitting, after design fees are spent
- Discover the nearest sewer is 900 ft away at closing
- Negotiate blind, with no leverage on price
- Absorb $50K+ in surprise site work
With SiteFacts
- See every constraint before you write an offer
- Get a real site-work budget up front
- Negotiate, or walk, with the facts in hand
- Move to design knowing the lot actually works
Who it’s for
Builders screening customer lots, land buyers protecting a purchase, and realtors and investors verifying buildability all use the same report for the same reason: certainty is cheaper than surprise.
Screen any parcel in minutes
Order a SiteScore to see the deal-killers, then pull the full SiteFacts Report when you're serious.