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title: "Fail to plan, plan to fail: Does Your Builder Pass the Planning and Real Estate Test?"
description: The most effective way to embark on real estate selection is to take a step back to gain insight into the best market. That’s why we start every real estate project with a strategic market study to understand the dynamics of a market.
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# [Fail to plan, plan to fail: Does Your Builder Pass the Planning and Real Estate Test?](https://www.lamacchiagroup.com/resources/fail-to-plan-plan-to-fail)

 Written by [Matt Weishan, Director of Real Estate & Business Development](https://www.lamacchiagroup.com/resources/author/matt-weishan-director-of-real-estate-business-development) | Sep 16, 2022 5:46:50 PM

Are you considering a construction project? Whether it's new construction, a retrofit or a refresh of your current footprint, the most critical decision you can make is engaging the right partner and taking the right first steps. To level set, if you’re not starting with an insights-driven strategic market analysis and ending with a cohesive project team of real estate brokers, architects, designers, and construction project managers, you could be threatening your return on investment. The bottom line is there are many moving pieces and complexities to construction projects and your success is dependent on the right plan and a nimble, experienced team to execute against it. At La Macchia Group, we’re design-builders. That means we have a lot of skin in the game; we have all services under **one roof**, provided by experts **on one team**, around **one table** - and it’s a game changer. 

So, before you sign on the dotted line with a general contractor - here are a couple questions to ask in order to ensure you’ve got the right partner.

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