{"id":54,"date":"2026-09-18T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/2026\/09\/18\/how-to-read-a-site-before-you-buy-it\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:06:50","slug":"how-to-read-a-site-before-you-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/2026\/09\/18\/how-to-read-a-site-before-you-buy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read a site before you buy it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most important design decisions are made before you own the land. A good site walk tells you what a plot will allow, what it will cost and what it will feel like to live there.<\/p>\n<h2>Follow the sun<\/h2>\n<p>Note where the sun rises and sets, and where the shadows of neighbouring trees and buildings fall in winter. Living spaces want south light; a plot that only offers it over the road will shape the whole plan.<\/p>\n<h2>Look at the ground<\/h2>\n<p>Slopes, standing water, rock and old fill all change foundation costs. Ask for any existing survey and soil report, and walk the site after heavy rain if you can.<\/p>\n<h2>Check the rules<\/h2>\n<p>Zoning setbacks, height limits, easements and covenants decide how much of the plot you can actually use. A one-hour feasibility check with an architect is far cheaper than buying the wrong plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important design decisions are made before you own the land. A good site walk tells you what a plot will allow, what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}