We provide the expertise to help our clients make smarter decisions. Using fresh perspectives to help projects meet their potential now and into the future.
From possibility to progress. We are passionate about helping our clients make the best decisions to shape better communities.
Where economics, land economics and valuation intersect
We deliver expert insights in economics, land economics, and valuation, empowering our clients to make smarter decisions that drive sustainable growth.
Our expert insights assist with the critical inputs needed to carry out:
Economic Analysis
Economic analysis is a key pillar in empowering cities, business and communities. It provides the insights needed for smarter decisions and sustainable growth, both now and into the future. A lack of proper Economic Analysis too often results in poor decisions and missed opportunities.
Atlas’ suite of Economic Analysis services is broad. Our expertise ranges from trend and industry analysis, socio-economic profiling, business and industry engagement, economic impact assessments, cost-benefit analysis, policy evaluation and business case preparation.
We specialise in combining our Economic Analysis with our other key services – Financial Analysis and Property Valuations. It is through our unique combination of these services that we add value for our clients. Turning data to decisions, we strive to make the complex simple.
Financial Analysis
Financial Analysis is critical to understanding the viability of any investment. Unlike Economic Analysis, which looks at the socio-economic implications of a project, Financial Analysis investigates the financial implications of a project.
Financial Analysis enables refinement of a project against investment criteria and ultimately selection of a project option that delivers on its financial objectives. Atlas’ breadth of expertise in financial analytics can test the merits of investment in land use, development and infrastructure. This includes development feasibility analysis, capacity to pay assessments, cost recovery pricing, highest and best use assessments and financial impact assessments.
Critically, we combine Financial Analysis with our other core services – Economic Analysis and Property Valuations – to ensure our clients have a bespoke and comprehensive solution to their specific challenges.
Property Valuations
Land and property are scarce resources, and their values have significant implications when planning for development and infrastructure. They also have implications for the viability of public policy settings.
Atlas’ team of consultants include certified property valuers who provide valuation services in the residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use sectors. Atlas specialises in the provision of valuation advice for compulsory acquisitions and are market leaders in this space.
As a team of expert valuers, we bring significant value to projects that also require Economic and Financial Analysis. We understand how property markets behave, and the commercial realities. This is critical to successfully plan for land uses and infrastructure. Turning insights into impact, our valuations expertise ensures important decisions are evidence-based and commercially grounded.
From plans to places these are the sectors we work with
From data to decisions, our team of specialists work with clients across a wide range of sectors across Australia. Our analysis and insights empower our clients to make smarter decisions. We are experts in making the complex simple.
Agribusiness has always been a key economic strength and pillar of our regional communities. As Asia’s food bowl, Australian agribusiness and agriculture is poised for growth.
Atlas combines skills in land use, economics, and valuations, combined with our unique background in regional economics, to identify and support viable agribusiness opportunities.
Understanding the requirements of different industries is one of our fundamental skill sets. It is critical in a period of structural change.
We assist clients in understanding what land uses will work, be it commercial office, retail, enterprise, showroom, or some hybridized blend. From data to decisions, we ensure planning for business uses is commercially viable and sustainable.
It is undeniable that communities thrive when there is access to communal and shared spaces. Places where people can meet, learn, create, and relax.
This includes a wide range of communal spaces – including childcare, sporting facilities or libraries. We provide the economic and financial analysis needed to make effective use of funding sources.
Governments can play a critical role in stimulating economic development to create vibrant cities and regions. Whether through direct investment, training initiatives, financial incentives, promotion,and marketing or simply relationship building, we assist Governments to ensure economic development is the catalyst in turning plans to places.
Industrial lands are the organs of healthy and modern cities. The building blocks of our economy - freight and logistics, manufacturing, data centres, storage, and critical urban services - rely upon well-located industrial land.
Atlas are industry experts in industrial lands and are relied upon by industry and government to guide industrial land use planning.
Atlas is recognised as a market leader in Australia’s Affordable Housing sector. We advise on policy, contribution mechanisms and development opportunities on behalf of the Government, housing providers and developers. Leveraging our expertise in land economics and valuation, we strive to bring simplicity to an important sector.
Proper integration of public infrastructure investment with land use planning is one of the critical challenges facing the Government.
Atlas understands how land uses respond to infrastructure and has built a reputation for providing insightful advice on how to maximise the economic returns of public investment in infrastructure, from project appraisal to precinct planning and staging.
Policy makers are facing some of the most complex structural issues in generations. Atlas is renowned for providing robust, evidence-based insights to inform forward thinking policy decisions. From insights to impacts, we draw upon our depth of knowledge and experience to find solutions to wicked problems in the land use, housing and infrastructure space.
Atlas are market specialists in the residential sector. We advise clients on the type, mix and viability of different housing typologies in different markets. We understand the fine balance between market need and development feasibility, combining our unique blend of property economics, economics and valuation expertise.
Urban renewal is essential to the long-term growth and sustainability of our cities and places. It is also notoriously complex.
Atlas have advised on some of Australia’s largest urban renewal projects, providing expert analysis on site consolidation, land use requirements, densities and staging needed to facilitate positive urban renewal outcomes.
Make smarter decisions
Get in touch with the Team to get an understanding of how we transform data into insightful decisions. Learn more about how Atlas Economics can help you make the right decisions using our expertise.
Check out our latest projects
Mamre Road Precinct
Investigating Sydney’s industrial lands supply crisis.
Affordable Housing Planning Incentives
Enabling and incentivising the delivery of Affordable Housing.
Westmead South Master Plan
Land use and built form opportunities.
Medium Density and Mid-rise Residential
Enabling housing diversity in existing urban areas.
Community Housing Programs
Modelling growth opportunities of housing programs.
