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The Five-Layer Property Evaluation.

Every property is assessed across five layers before it reaches a client, and the assessment is written down. Which layers carry the most weight depends on why you are buying.

The method

Five layers, weighted to your mandate.

Select what you are buying for and the framework shows which layers carry the most weight.

01

Location potential

Weighted for appreciation

Macro corridor, micro-market, infrastructure trajectory and demand absorption.

02

Developer credibility

Weighted for both mandates

Delivery history, financial health, RERA standing and post-handover support.

03

Rental yield

Weighted for income

Realistic gross and net yield, modelled after vacancy, maintenance and tenant grade. Not the gross figure a brochure quotes.

04

Exit liquidity

Weighted for income

Secondary market depth, time-to-sell benchmarks and how price behaves in a down cycle.

05

Long-term position

Weighted for appreciation

Ten-year scenarios, tax efficiency, and fit against what you already own.

Layer 04 exists because markets fall. We form a view on the exit before we form a view on the entry, and we record the conditions under which we would withdraw a recommendation.

What you receive

The assessment is a document, not a conversation.

Contents

The evaluation note

Findings against all five layers, the corridor thesis, the expected hold period, and the route out. Signed by all three partners.

Contents

The withdrawal conditions

What would have to happen for us to change our recommendation. Written before you buy, so it cannot be rewritten afterwards.

Contents

The commission position

What the developer pays us on that project, disclosed on request, so you can weigh the recommendation knowing how we are paid.

The difference

What changes when there is a method.

Typical brokerage
A365 Realtors
What you are shown
Whatever carries the highest commission
Only what passes a written five-layer assessment
The exit
Discussed after you want to sell
Assessed before you buy, as Layer 04
Yield figures
Gross, taken from the brochure
Net of vacancy, maintenance and tenant grade
Commission
Not discussed
Disclosed on any project you ask about
Who approves it
The individual agent
All three partners. Two are not paid on transactions
After possession
The relationship ends
Management, and an annual written position

Governance

Approved by partners who are not paid on the sale.

The operating partner runs the market business and is compensated on it. The other two hold governance roles with no transaction-linked compensation, and they approve the recommended list. This is a structure, not a promise, and it is documented in the firm's governance charter.

Make property decisions with the working shown.

Buy what stands up to five layers of scrutiny. Then let someone else deal with the tenants.