DevelopmentIntelligence scores every parcel in your market for teardown upside — the land-dominant, scrape-and-rebuild lots where the dirt is worth far more than the tired house on it. The redevelopment plays no listing service ever tags.
Every parcel scored from public county data — 1.7 million in Phoenix alone — across 9 markets.
The MLS lists houses for sale, tagged by bedrooms, baths, and price — never "this is worth more as dirt." A teardown isn't a listing category; it's a conclusion you reach by comparing what the land is worth to what's standing on it. Finding them the manual way means combing county assessor rolls parcel by parcel for low structure-to-land ratios, old build years, and redevelopment-friendly zoning. That's exactly the work this teardown property finder automates.
We compute a teardown score for each parcel from its land-to-improvement ratio, structure age, and neighborhood trajectory — using public county data, not the MLS.
When a structure's value is a fraction of the land's, the highest-and-best-use is demolish and rebuild. Those rise to the top of your list, including off-market parcels.
Every teardown comes with a regional rebuild-cost estimate, owner and zoning, an Opportunity Zone flag, and seller signals — so you can underwrite it on the spot.
Not just what's listed — every parcel in the market, scored, so you see deals before they hit the MLS.
The land-vs-structure value ratio that tells you the dirt is worth more than the house.
A construction-cost estimate to demolish and rebuild, grounded in current regional prices.
Who owns it and what you can build — with an Opportunity Zone flag where it applies.
Teardown screens are live across nine markets, with Phoenix as the deepest:
A teardown is a property whose structure has little remaining value relative to its land — an old, obsolete, or deteriorated house on a lot worth far more than the building. The best economic use is to demolish the structure and build new ("scrape and rebuild"), or to redevelop the site entirely. Investors hunt teardowns because the upside is in the land and the new build, not the existing home.
The manual method is to pull county assessor data and look for parcels where the improvement (building) value is a small share of the total assessed value, then filter for older structures and zoning that allows a bigger or denser rebuild. It works, but it's slow and parcel-by-parcel. The faster way is to let a tool score every parcel for you and rank the strongest teardown candidates — which is what DevelopmentIntelligence does, then pairs each one with a fix-and-flip and rebuild deal calculator so you can underwrite it immediately.
Every parcel scored for redevelopment upside — the off-market deals the MLS never lists.