Clarity on the ground. Confidence in your next move.
Independent eyes on your development project. Verified progress, practical insight, and documentation you can act on.
For land bankers, banks and lenders, and developers who need to know where a project stands — and what comes next. Guidance from someone who has built projects, financed through them, and brought them to completion.
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A clear picture. A practical path forward.
Site knowledge you can act on — verified in the field, reported in writing, backed by aerial evidence.
Subdivision Improvement Monitoring
Site visits, written progress report, labeled photo log, and a plan-overlay composite with construction progress annotated on the improvement plan. Percent-complete by cost code, with a grounded schedule assessment.
Construction Draw Review — Lender & Owner/Developer Side
Photo verification, work checked against the schedule of values, draw-versus-budget reconciliation, and lien-waiver tracking — lender-side, and owner/developer-side before payment.
Distressed Project Evaluations
Existing site conditions, remaining scope, and cost-to-complete — with budget and draw reconciliation and recommended next actions for a project a bank or land banker holds or is considering.
Owner Representation & Contractor Management
Bid solicitation and documented scoring, contract support, constructability review, cost estimating, and contractor coordination. Clear progress summaries and action items.
Aerial Documentation & Metadata Archive
Scheduled drone flights — cardinal directions, overhead, low slow video, close-ups — full set, metadata intact, archived per project for meetings, disputes, and litigation support.*
* Flown and read by an operator with almost 40 years of building and development experience. Part 107, six years, and thousands of flights.
What does your project need?
Talk directly with Brian Magee about your site, your concerns, and the information you need to move forward.
Sanctuary
Drone progress update · June 29, 2023
Annotated site conditions. Field notes. Attention items.
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Filiberto’s 303
Site progress report · October 26, 2026
Status at a glance. Annotated photographs. Items requiring attention. Ground-level photography only — the site is in Luke Air Force Base drone-prohibited airspace.
View a sample report ↗ PDFSee the progress. Understand the details.
Every engagement produces written, dated deliverables the client keeps. Aerial evidence is interpreted through decades of hands-on building and development experience.
- Written progress report after each site visit
- Labeled photo log
- Plan-overlay composite — drone overhead aligned to the improvement plan, construction progress annotated
- Percent-complete by cost code
- Draw-versus-budget reconciliation
- Cost-to-complete estimate for take-back evaluations
- Bid solicitation and documented scoring summary
- Full drone flight set (cardinal directions, overhead, low slow video, close-ups) with metadata archive
Part 107 operator · Six years of drone experience · Thousands of flights
A builder's perspective. An independent voice.
Brian Magee's career spans homebuilding, industrial development, distressed assets, and owner representation. That breadth informs every site visit, review, and recommendation.
Magee Homes
Approximately 1,940 closings — peak year 131 in 1998. Arizona Top 50 Homebuilder in seven of nine years.
Industrial & Commercial
Nine industrial buildings in Chandler, plus a five-pad commercial project on ten acres in Tempe.
Realty Resolution Advisors
Co-founded to support banks taking back distressed projects — seven active engagements by March 2009. Clients included Stearns Bank, Arizona Business Bank, Chase, and Bank of America.
MGB Investments Inc
57 single-family projects (spec homes, fix-and-flip homes, remodels), six multifamily projects, ten commercial projects, and 165 lots across nine land deals. Development management of 477 lots for a national single-family rental operator, followed by three years of consulting across seven of its projects.
Built across the Valley.
Residential communities, industrial buildings, and commercial development throughout metro Phoenix.
Magee Homes Subdivisions
Superstition Foothills · Driftwood Ranch · Boulder Pass · Arbor Lane · Pinelake Village · Windmill Villas — six subdivisions entitled and built, 1989–2008.
Cobble Creek
50 residential lots
Capistrano Two
68 lots
Chelsea Manor
29 custom lots
Dawn
70 lots
Gila Springs Commerce Park
Six industrial buildings
Southpark Business Center
Three industrial buildings
Capistrano Village
Five-pad commercial project on 10 acres
287-Acre Land Project
Metro Phoenix land development experience
1,013 Lots. Multiple Communities.
Arroyo Verde · Olive Ranch · Laveen Ranch · Larkey Ranch · Pradera · Rio Rancho · Sanctuary · Sunset Farms · Cactus Glenn · Malone
In the field now: draw monitoring on an active restaurant build; owner representation on a partially complete condominium project; residential remodels in progress, including one being prepared for sale; drone progress inspections, roof inspections, and litigation support.
Magee Development Inc
315 W Elliot Rd, STE 107-308, Tempe, AZ 85284