Due Diligence
Understanding Project-Level Due Diligence
Framework explainer | 9 min read | Educational research
What a project-level review actually contains, and the order in which evidence should be gathered.
A project-level review is a sequence, not a checklist completed in any order. Primary sources come first: registration records, sanctioned plans, revenue records, court and tribunal searches, and filings of the entity. These establish what is formally true.
Independent sources come second, to corroborate: credible reporting, independent databases and references from people who already own in the developer's earlier projects. These do not replace primary records; they test them.
Marketing material comes last and is treated as claims to be verified — not because developers are dishonest, but because promotional material is designed to persuade rather than to document.
The most important output of a review is honest about its own limits. Where a record could not be obtained, that gap is written down as a gap. A review that reports no unknowns is usually a review that stopped early.
Key Points
- Primary sources come first, always
- Marketing material is context, not evidence
- Unknowns should be documented, not smoothed over
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