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Guide: property development projects

Step by step: follow a development project, its phases and permits, review the cost price and transfer the units to the portfolio.

Module immo_developmentOdoo 19 Enterprise

Profile: rental manager. The project manager receives the permit alerts.

Step 1 · View the projects

Open Immo > Development > Projects. Each project shows its status, its purpose (rental portfolio or resale) and its progress.

Step 2 · Open a project and its phases

Open a project, for example “Résidence Belle-Vue” in the demonstration. The header shows the project status and the Phases, Permits and Cost price buttons. The Phases tab lists each phase with its planned and actual dates, its budget, its default cost type, its delay in days (in red when the phase is late) and its progress. The “Late phases” filter in Immo > Development > Phases finds those that are overrunning.

Immo · Development · Projects · Résidence Belle-Vue
Project Résidence Belle-Vue, Phases tab: Résidence Belle-Vue, rental portfolio destination, at the Works stage: three phases for a budget of €2,250,000; the Works phase, in progress, shows a 20-day delay.
Résidence Belle-Vue, rental portfolio destination, at the Works stage: three phases for a budget of €2,250,000; the Works phase, in progress, shows a 20-day delay.

Step 3 · Track the permits

Open Immo > Development > Permits. Each permit shows its filing date, its date of grant or refusal, its expiry date and the number of days remaining, and the end of the appeal period (optional column), all calculated. A permit that expires within 90 days is shown in orange. The “Expiry within 90 days” and “Appeal in progress” filters support monitoring.

Immo · Development · Permits
List of development permits: The four demonstration permits, Appeal deadline column displayed: PU/2024/1187 is under appeal and lapses in 65 days; PE/2024/0042, granted, in 450 days.
The four demonstration permits, Appeal deadline column displayed: PU/2024/1187 is under appeal and lapses in 65 days; PE/2024/0042, granted, in 450 days.

Step 4 · Allocate expenses

The project's purchase invoices carry its analytic account. On the project, Synchronise analytics brings these entries into the cost price.

Step 5 · Read the cost price

Open Immo > Development > Cost price, or the project's Cost price button, then the pivot view: amounts broken down by type in rows and by phase in columns. The project's Cost price tab shows the breakdown by type and compares it with the budget: total budget, cost price and variance from budget.

Immo · Development · Cost price
Cost price of Résidence Belle-Vue by type and by phase
Résidence Belle-Vue: €1,693,700 cost price, of which €24,500 of financing costs (interim interest on the construction loan) allocated to the Works phase.
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Cost price tab of the Résidence Belle-Vue project
The project's Cost price tab: the six allocations, the breakdown by type and the variance from budget, -€556,300 at this stage of the works.

Step 6 · Take handover and transfer to the portfolio

On handover of a project intended for the rental portfolio, the project's Handover button opens the transfer wizard. It picks up the project's name, code and address, suggests the cost price as the acquisition value with its breakdown by type, and waits for the list of units to create (reference, type, floor, areas, bedrooms, EPC, reference rent). Take handover creates the building and its units, moves the project to the Handed over status and links the building to the project. The units are ready to be let.

Immo · Development · Projects · Résidence Les Lauriers
Transfer on handover wizard for the Résidence Belle-Vue project
The wizard opened on Résidence Belle-Vue: acquisition value proposed at €1,693,700, cost price taken over by nature, two units entered as an example. Screen not validated.
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Résidence Les Lauriers building created by the transfer, Finance tab
The result on Résidence Les Lauriers, handed-over project: building created with 4 units, acquisition value €1,750,000 equal to the development cost, original project linked.

Step 7 · Or resell

For a project intended for resale, the Resale button opens the wizard that records the price and the date, and calculates the result against the cost price.

Step 8 · Handover sets the warranties automatically

On handover of a project, the building and each of its units receive the handover date and the warranties inherited from the project. On the demonstration database, Résidence Les Lauriers carries, after the transfer, its handover and two warranties. A unit handed over later counts its warranty from its own date. Warranties continue to be set up in the building's Handover and warranties tab, described in the portfolio guide.

Immo · Development · Projects · Résidence Les Lauriers
Building created from the transfer of a project: handover and two warranties set automatically
The building created from the transfer: handover and two warranties set automatically.
Going furtherThe overview of the domain is on the page Development. The screenshots come from a demonstration database with fictitious data.