Software for House Builders & Residential Developers
One system for every development: plot budgets, build programs, trades and materials, site records, completions. You can see where every plot stands, every day, from groundworks to handover.
You price the site months before the first foundation. Then costs move, trades juggle three developments at once and every buyer has a completion date.
Plots are sequenced across your developments in one schedule, with trades booked against them. Progress lands from site daily, so when a trade slips you replan across plots in one place, and completion dates stay honest.
Every plot builds against a house-type budget. Materials and trade packages hit it as committed cost the moment they are ordered, so you see cost against budget plot by plot while the roof is still open, not in the year-end accounts.
Stage inspections, snag lists and photo evidence are captured plot by plot as the build moves. The record behind each home builds as you build, so handover day is a check, not a scramble, and warranty queries are answered from records.
Archdesk is built for house builders and residential developers delivering housing estates, apartment buildings and mixed developments, whether you build for sale, build to rent or deliver affordable housing. Estimators and buyers, site managers, quantity surveyors and the commercial team work from the same records, so every plot builds against a house-type budget, every trade and material order lands as committed cost the day it is placed, and the record of each home builds from groundworks to handover.
Working with specialist trades on your developments? Archdesk also serves:
Most of every house is built by trades. Each package sits against the development with its orders, valuations and payments, so you always know what has been committed, certified and paid, plot by plot.
The development appraised from real cost data on your house types, with the assumptions behind the numbers on the record.
House types applied to plots, with planning conditions and technical approvals tracked against the dates that gate each phase.
Materials and trade packages bought against house-type budgets, landing as committed cost plot by plot.
Progress, hours and site records land daily against each plot, so the program reflects the site, not the last meeting.
Stage inspections and snag lists tracked to closure with photo evidence, plot by plot, as the build moves.
Homes handed over with certificates and warranties on record, and the margin per plot already known.
What you priced is what you track. The winning estimate becomes the budget, actuals land against it line by line, and what jobs really cost feeds the next bid.
Explore Job Costing
The schedule connected to what it depends on: long-lead deliveries on the tasks they gate, crews planned across every live job, slippage shown with its cost.
Explore Scheduling
Buy-out without the gaps: RFQs from your BOQ lines, bids back comparable, exclusions visible before award. Then every PO and subcontract lands on the budget the moment it's raised.
Explore Procurement
Committed at the PO, earned as work is delivered, invoiced months later. See all three stages against every budget line, so variance is a decision you make, not a number you explain.
Explore Cost Controlling
Certify subcontractor valuations down, build client applications up, from the same records. Invoices, payment notices and retention on statutory time, with the audit trail attached.
Explore Financials
The schedule, the progress and the money in one system. When a task slips you see what it costs, and when scope changes you see what it does to the schedule. 'On track' means the Gantt chart and the bank account.
Explore Project Management
Nobody builds from a superseded drawing. Revision control, approvals and distribution with proof of who received what, when. The record that wins the dispute instead of losing it.
Explore Document Management
Every project's position, live, from the data that ran the work. Cost, schedule and cash agree with each other because they're the same records. There's nothing to assemble and nothing to reconcile.
Explore Live Data
Construction Volume
£10M
Average Administrative Cost
£500k
From small residential jobs to the world's largest infrastructure projects
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Archdesk helps house builders and residential developers manage developments end to end: plot and house-type budgets, build programs, subcontract trades, materials procurement, site records, inspections and snagging, and completion and handover records, in one connected platform.
House builders and residential developers delivering housing estates, apartment buildings and mixed developments, whether you build for sale, build to rent or deliver affordable housing.
Yes. Every plot builds against a house-type budget, and materials and trade packages hit it as committed cost the moment they are ordered. You see cost against budget plot by plot while the build is live, so margin per plot is something you manage, not something you discover at year end.
Plots and phases are sequenced in one program across all your developments, with trades booked against them. Progress lands from site daily, so when a trade slips you replan across plots in one place, and completion dates stay honest.
Trade packages are ordered against house-type budgets, valuations are certified against recorded progress, and payments and retention are tracked through to release. Every trade's cost and delivery record builds across the plots they work on.
Purchase orders are raised against house-type budget lines and land as committed cost the day they are placed, with deliveries tracked to the plots they gate. The gap between the price you allowed and the price you paid shows up as it opens, not at reconciliation.
Yes. Site managers complete forms, record stage inspections, log progress and capture photos from their phones, and what they record lands against each plot in real time, so the office sees the site as it is, not as it was at the last meeting.
Stage inspections and snag lists are captured plot by plot with photo evidence and tracked to closure. The record behind each home builds as you build, so handover is a check, not a scramble.
Yes. Certificates, warranties and the build record live against each plot after handover, so when a warranty claim or customer query lands two years later, the answer comes from records, not memory.
Yes. Archdesk integrates with Xero (as a certified partner), Sage, QuickBooks and other accounting systems, so orders, invoices and payments flow between commercial and finance teams without re-keying.
In the demo we walk you through a fully worked development in Archdesk, from the first budget, through build on site, to completion and handover. Book a demo and see.
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