Streamlining Property Due Diligence

The Importance of Due Diligence in Real Estate

Due diligence helps you understand the positives and negatives of a property before making a purchase. Typically, this involves investigating and assessing land features such as zoning regulations, environmental restrictions, and/or property boundaries.

While rushing due diligence can lead to legal, financial, or logistical problems, taking the time to do your research can turn a risky deal into a rewarding investment.

But this process isn’t just about reducing risk—it’s also about maximizing value. Due diligence often reveals hidden opportunities (like zoning changes and tax incentives) that have a big impact on a property's profitability.

Making Due Diligence Easier

Before doing any land analysis, you first have to narrow down what you want in a potential property. This could include everything from the number of acres to the types of views offered, as well as the location of pipelines, transmission lines, and low water crossings.

Once you figure out what you want (and don’t want) from your real estate investment, you can use Land id™ to look up potential properties and assess them based on your goals, budget, and lifestyle. Our interactive 3D mapping is a huge help in getting to know a property, as this 3D view allows you to explore the area in a dynamic, visually compelling way.

Plus, Land id’s wide range of map overlays make it easy to examine details like: conservation easements, public lands, housing developments, access points, and flood zones. By incorporating strategic map overlays into your research process, you get a clear picture of which properties align with your criteria.

As Ryan Bramlette of Fay Ranches explains in our latest video, “You can tell early on using Land id™ if a ranch may or may not be a fit for a given buyer. We will have buyers that don’t want a ranch under a conservation easement. You can click on the conservation easement layer and quickly identify which ranches are [or are not] under these restrictions.”

You can even create and color-code maps in Land id™ to keep track of properties you're evaluating. This helps differentiate the ones you're still interested in vs those you’ve ruled out. For example, you might apply a green boundary to properties that check all your boxes, while a red boundary could indicate properties with one or more of your deal killers.

The Secret to Smarter Property Mapping

Land id™ is a game changer for simplifying due diligence in real estate.

Thanks to our advanced mapping technology, you can quickly identify properties that match your criteria and weed out those that don’t. In other words, it’s easy to eliminate properties you’re unlikely to purchase.

Ultimately, this due diligence tells you which locations are worth an onsite visit—meaning you only tour viable properties and avoid those with deal breakers. This saves significant time, reduces costs, and brings the most promising opportunities to the forefront.

That’s why Ryan says Land id™ is the most valuable tool in his property mapping toolkit. From his experience, “With what we’re doing [at Fay Ranches] trying to understand the attributes of the land, there’s just no better tool that does that for us than Land id™.”

See for yourself! Sign up for a free, 7-day trial of Land id™, and let us handle all the heavy lifting of land analysis for you.