EstateMaster alternatives
EstateMaster alternatives for NZ and Australian businesses
EstateMaster: Quoted privately, licensed yearly by user and module, with training sold separately
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What people compare EstateMaster with
EstateMaster subscriptions are quoted privately and sold by module, and Altus Group charges $998 for a one-day advanced training course. You may look for an alternative when annual module fees and training add up, your team has to move actuals from accounts, and your project history remains in the vendor's format.
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Property Development for Claude Code
The open-source property development system that is just a database and Claude Code. Built around your business, with your EstateMaster data brought across.
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How to choose a EstateMaster alternative
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What drives the bill
Check whether the bill rises with each user, module, training course or year of commitment. EstateMaster is licensed per user and per module, its subscription price is quoted privately, and training is sold separately. Compare that structure with a setup fee and monthly retainer, without assuming either option costs less.
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Who owns your records
Ask whether you can keep and use your project history if you leave. EstateMaster stores versions, budgets and sales registers in its own files, and leaving means printing reports to Excel project by project. An owned version keeps your records in a database you own.
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Fit with your own rules
List the measures, approval steps, cost codes and reports your team relies on. A system that fits your own rules and fields can reflect how you run projects, rather than asking everyone to work around a fixed model. Check whether your key reports match your business needs.
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What the switch involves
Find out what has to be exported, checked and rebuilt before you commit. A move can start with feasibility, budget and sales reports saved as spreadsheets, then check what will come across and compare totals project by project on paid paths. Contracts, claims and approvals are added separately.
The option that fits
A version built around your business
Enterprise DNA builds your property development system around the way your business works, then brings your EstateMaster data across and runs it for you. Your feasibilities, budgets, contracts, variations, lots and approvals can sit with the project records in a database you own. The paid option has one setup fee, then a monthly retainer, with no per-seat plans. If you want to manage it yourself, there is also a free version.
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- check EstateMaster data brought across and checked project by project.
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Design your own EstateMaster replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from EstateMaster. Try it here, and we build the real one.
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Questions
EstateMaster alternatives, answered
What does an EstateMaster alternative cost? expand_more
EstateMaster subscriptions are quoted privately and sold by module, with licences priced per user. Altus Group also sells a one-day advanced Development Feasibility course for $998 per person. Enterprise DNA charges one setup fee, then a monthly retainer for a version built and run for your business. A free version is available to run yourself.
How can you move projects out of EstateMaster? expand_more
For each project, feasibility, budget and sales-register reports can be printed to Excel and saved as spreadsheets. They come across as a feasibility version, cost codes and lots. A test run shows what will come across before it is saved, and running it twice does not duplicate records. On paid paths, Enterprise DNA maps your report layouts and checks totals against EstateMaster project by project.
Would you still need your accounting system? expand_more
Yes. Your accounting system still pays bills and does the books. The property development system holds the records around those accounts, including feasibilities, contracts, variations, payment claims and deadlines, drawdowns, lots and approvals. Claims and invoices can be added by asking or brought in from your accounts on a paid path.
Can an alternative handle feasibility modelling? expand_more
The free version tracks feasibility versions and calculates profit, margins on cost and revenue, IRR, peak funding, residual land value and a sensitivity grid from a monthly cash flow. Its cash flow is less detailed than EstateMaster's. On paid paths, Enterprise DNA builds the cash flow your deals need, with S-curves, GST, stamp duty and staged finance.
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