You'd never buy a house without a home inspection. Yet most land changes hands without anyone checking where the water goes, how the sun and wind hit it, or what the soil will grow. Our Land Inspection maps all of it, for $89 CAD, before you sign.
Get Your Land Inspection $89 CAD Not ready to buy? Book a free 15-minute Land Read and we'll look at your listing together.
A home inspector checks the roof, the furnace and the foundation. Nobody checks the land they sit on. Yet the land decides most of what you can do there: where you can build, whether the basement stays dry, whether a garden thrives or struggles, and how hard the house works to stay warm in January.
Listing photos show the best corner on the sunniest day. A Land Inspection shows you the whole property, through the whole year.
Every map runs on a method our land designers built over years of designing real properties. It takes public data, including satellite imagery, elevation data, government soil surveys and 30 years of climate records, and turns it into maps with plain-English explanations of what they mean for building, water, energy and food.
The high ground that sheds water and the low ground that collects it. Low ground is where ponds and gardens thrive, and where houses and septic fields get into trouble.
All the land upslope of your boundary that drains onto you. That water can fill a pond for free, or wash out a driveway built in the wrong place.
Water and cold air both flow downhill and settle in the low spots. Every other decision on the land starts from this map.
Gentle ground is simple to build on, drive on and garden. A listing that says "rolling" could mean either. This map tells you which.
South-facing slopes warm up first in spring and suit a home that heats itself with sun. North-facing slopes stay cool and hold snow longer.
Thirty years of daily records: the average month, the wet and dry extremes, and the biggest single-day storms. It tells you how much water you can catch and how long you need to store it.
The full spread of daily highs and lows for every month, not just the average. It shows your real heating and cooling needs and what the growing season can carry.
The earliest and latest spring and fall frosts over 30 years. That is your planting window, and it shows how much risk you take planting early.
How often each month is clear or cloudy. It tells you whether solar panels and a sunny greenhouse will pay off in the months you need them most.
Over 20 years of hourly wind, by direction and strength. It shows which way to face the house and where shelterbelts will do the most good.
The same wind, split by season. Winter wind can come from a different direction than summer wind, which changes where you need shelter most.
Thirty years of seasonal highs and lows with a trend line through each, so you can see whether summers, winters and frost risk are shifting on this piece of land.
Based on 30 years of weather records. Sheltered spots make better homesites and gardens. Exposed spots show where windbreaks are needed.
Soil types from government surveys, with texture, drainage and farming rating. An early read on whether a septic field or pond will work.
Forest, grassland, wetland, crops and bare ground across the whole property, mapped from satellite imagery.
The natural plant communities your land supports. Work with them and the land does much of the work for you.
Which parts suit gardens, orchards, pasture or forest farming, so you can check the property supports the life you're planning.
Slope, winter sun, wind shelter, distance from streams and wet ground, all weighed at once. In our experience, this is the most valuable map we make.
See exactly what you get: download a sample Land Inspection (PDF)
Get Your Land Inspection $89 CAD
Not ready to buy? Book a free 15-minute Land Read and we'll look at your listing together.
Your property line doesn't stop water. On our sample property south of Calgary, the land draining onto the parcel was about 2.6 times the size of the parcel itself. You'll know what's coming at your land before you buy it.
One price, $89 CAD, for any property in Canada or the US.
A listing link, an address or a legal land description, for land you own or are looking at.
Your Land Inspection arrives within 5 business days: 11 maps, each explained in plain English.
If your Land Inspection doesn’t reveal anything new about the property, we’ll refund your full $89. Just reply to the email with your Land Inspection, and we’ll take care of it.
Public data: satellite imagery, elevation data, government soil surveys and 30 years of climate records. We turn it into maps of your property and explain what each one means for your plans.
It works for properties in Canada and the US. Soils depend on public soil survey data, which exists across the US and in the Canadian provinces that have mapped their soils. If a layer can't be run for your parcel, we'll tell you.
No. It tells you where to look hard when you do. Soils, ponds and septic fields still need a site visit to confirm.
$89 Canadian dollars. If you're paying from the US, your card converts it automatically.
Your Land Inspection is where our design work starts. If you want us to turn the maps into a plan for the house, water, food and energy, ask us about a Rapid Concept Plan once your maps arrive.
Land is one of the biggest purchases you'll ever make. For $89 CAD, you'll see what the listing photos can't: where the water goes, where the sun lands, what will grow and what to watch for.
Looking at land this fall? Order before the snow, while you can still walk the property with the maps in hand.