Around here the dirt is often worth more than the house standing on it. That's the entire teardown-rebuild wave in one sentence — and if you're buying into it, the demolition line item deserves better math than a guess.
Every teardown deal in Fairfield County runs on the same arithmetic: land value minus (purchase + demolition + carrying costs) must leave room for the build and the margin. Buyers obsess over the purchase price and the construction budget, then treat demolition as a mystery number — which is exactly backwards, because demolition is the most quotable line on the whole sheet. A demolition contractor can walk a property before you even offer and hand you a firm written number: teardown, foundation out, utilities capped, lot graded. That number belongs in your offer math, not discovered after closing.
The smooth version: demolition quoted during due diligence → survey and utility disconnects filed at closing → abatement (if needed) → teardown and graded lot delivered to your builder's schedule → excavation begins on clean fill with the paper trail your lender and building department expect. The clumsy version inserts weeks of idle carrying costs between each step. We coordinate directly with builders and architects precisely to keep the gap between "closed" and "building" as short as the permits allow — see house demolition for the teardown itself, and get the number before you write the offer.
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