{"id":40,"date":"2026-08-23T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/2026\/08\/23\/why-we-pour-infrastructure-first\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:24:34","slug":"why-we-pour-infrastructure-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/2026\/08\/23\/why-we-pour-infrastructure-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Pour Infrastructure Before We Sell a Single Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putting roads, sewer, stormwater and power in before a single home is sold ties up capital for eighteen months longer than the alternative. Most developers stage it the other way round, and the arithmetic on a spreadsheet says they are right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spreadsheet leaves out what happens when phase three infrastructure is contingent on phase two sales, and phase two sales are contingent on a market nobody can forecast. Communities stall halfway. The families who bought first live on a building site for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What it costs, and what it buys<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Front-loading servicing adds roughly four per cent to the delivered cost of a home. In exchange, every buyer knows the road outside their door is finished, adopted and permanent on the day they move in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roads, drainage and power ahead of vertical build costs more up front. Here is the arithmetic that makes it worth doing anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-real-estate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}