You will conceive the projects, select their locations, acquire the land, determine the market, obtain the financing, oversee the design and construction and conclusion of the completed building.

Developers seek a profit from development of the land, either by selling a development, such as a tract of residential homes, a shopping mall, or an office building, or by holding the developed property to reap a return on the investment.

Some developers form construction companies to do their own work, and to pick up any other work they can obtain at a good price. Some are simply brokers, without much staff, who subcontract all or most of the work they undertake, often with only one criterion: the lowest responsible price.

Others attempt to operate as contractors; some succeed, become established, and do good construction work in the market place.