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title: Guides for Property Developers | XSquare Real Estate
description: Practical guides for property developers: managing post-dated cheques, comparing payment plans, pricing off-plan units and choosing real estate software.
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# Read before you choose.
Practical guides on the problems developers deal with every day, and a glossary of the terms.
Image: Cheque register with post-dated cheques by status and bank
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## How property developers manage post-dated cheques
Developers manage post-dated cheques by tying each cheque to one installment, printing the whole set in one run, tracking every cheque through received, deposited and cleared or bounced, and making each status change update the buyer's balance.
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Image: Comparison of payment plans by present value and yield
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## How to compare real estate payment plans
Compare payment plans by what they are worth today, not by their total. Discount every installment at your cost of capital and add them up to get the plan's net present value (NPV), then compare plans as a percentage of list price.
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Image: Stacking plan of one tower coloured by price per square metre
](https://aqartab.com/payment-plan-value-guide)[

## How to price off-plan units across a project
Price off-plan units with one set of rules: a base rate per square metre for each unit type, premiums for view, floor, orientation and corner, then guard rails and rounding. Check the result on a stacking plan before release, and adjust using your pace of sales.
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Image: Real estate overview dashboard with units by status and installment collection
](https://aqartab.com/off-plan-pricing-guide)[

## How to choose software for a real estate developer
Choose real estate developer software by following one unit through its whole life: sale, contract, installments, cheques, collection, handover. Ask each vendor to show every step on your own payment plan, and check where the data goes when the sales tool stops.
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](https://aqartab.com/choosing-real-estate-software)[

## Real estate development glossary
Plain definitions of EOI, stacking plan, absorption rate, retention and more.
Read more](https://aqartab.com/glossary)

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