Affordable Housing Viability Assessments for Informed, Sustainable Development Decisions

Evaluate the feasibility of projects with affordable housing requirements with Viability’s specialised viability assessment tools, designed to provide quick, accurate insights tailored to the affordable housing sector.

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What is an Affordable Housing Viability Assessment?

An affordable housing viability assessment analyses the economic and practical feasibility of housing developments with affordability mandates, ensuring compliance with local policies while maintaining profitability. Viability’s AI-driven platform offers developers, planners, and land buyers a streamlined way to assess the potential of affordable housing projects in minutes. With our tailored analysis tools, you can make data-backed decisions to meet both financial goals and affordable housing requirements.

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Why Choose Viability for Affordable Housing Viability Assessments?

Fast, Automated Assessments

Viability takes the complexity out of affordable housing appraisals. Our software automates key calculations and compliance checks, helping you understand the viability of a project quickly.

Compliance-Driven Analysis

With integrated local planning and affordability thresholds, Viability ensures that each assessment considers required affordable housing allocations and policy constraints.

Built for Professionals

Tailored for developers, land planners, and buyers, Viability’s tools provide the accurate, actionable data essential for affordable housing projects.

How Viability’s Development Appraisal Software Works

  1. Outline Your Site
    Either draw or select the HMLR title boundary on our map tool. Understand the site with our map layers, BNG tool, underground asset checks, automated overlooking distance calculator, etc.
  2. Automated Affordability Analysis
    Viability’s AI-driven software analyzes build costs, revenue potential, and compliance with affordable housing policies, automating what traditionally takes days.
  1. Run Scenario Comparisons
    Compare scenarios that adjust affordable unit allocations, construction costs, and pricing strategies to optimize the project’s viability.
  2. Generate a Detailed Report
    Instantly create a PDF report detailing the assessment, including cost estimates, compliance status, and scenario analysis, ready to present to stakeholders.

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“With Viability, I was able to run a full viability analysis for a site I was familiar with in minutes. It would have taken me at least a day or two and was happy to find the results were really accurate”

“With Viability, I was able to run a full viability analysis for a site I was familiar with in minutes. It would have taken me at least a day or two and was happy to find the results were really accurate”

Oli Watkins, Beaufort Homes

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Linesearch
Gentian
Bluesky
HM Land Registry
Ordnance Survey
Office for National Statistics
Historic England
National Grid
Royal Mail
British Geological Survey

Frequently asked questions

The assessment includes cost analysis, revenue projections, compliance checks with local affordable housing policies, and scenario analysis to gauge the project’s financial and practical feasibility.

Viability integrates local affordability thresholds, unit type requirements, and pricing regulations to provide assessments aligned with applicable policies and mandates.

Scenario analysis allows you to simulate different variables—such as cost fluctuations or changes in property values—to anticipate potential risks and choose the most profitable approach. Viability’s software makes it easy to compare multiple scenarios in minutes.

Yes, Viability’s scenario testing and cost analysis tools allow developers to balance affordability requirements with profitability, ensuring the project meets financial goals within policy constraints.

Don’t settle for crossing your fingers in the hope you took everything into account

Let Viability do the heavy lifting on your bids for you. Those wasted weeks and months of scouring the internet to plug the numbers into a glitchy spreadsheet are over. It’s time to make light work of site viability assessments with data analysis and scheme optimisation you can trust.

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