Field note · 14 November 2025
Comparing two parcels without pretending they are the same place
The easiest way to compare two lots is to talk about area and price. It is also the way that hides the lane, the water, and the wall that already belongs to someone else.
In a parcel comparison the studio agrees the questions first and then refuses to change them halfway to favor a site. Access, water, neighboring use, rough ground. Both sites, or all three, receive the same list. If one site has a well and the other does not, the well appears. We do not add a matching symbol to the quieter sheet for the sake of graphic balance.
One scale, one legend
The comparison is drawn at a shared scale even when one lot is deeper. A smaller site is not enlarged to fill its half of the paper. Empty margin is honest. The legend uses the same hatches for wet ground, for walls we could see, and for edges we took from a deed sketch we could not check on the ground. Those last edges are drawn dashed. A dashed line is not a shy solid line. It is a different claim.
March’s pair off Ramintra Road looked twins in the advertisements: similar rai, similar asking tone. On the sheet, one fronted a through-soi where a delivery truck could enter and leave. The other sat on a dead-end where the same truck would have reversed past a neighbor’s gate. Area did not capture that. The notes described it without scoring either lot. Scoring is how a drawing starts to impersonate an appraisal.
What we will not rank
Clients sometimes ask which parcel is better. The finding answers with the differences that were in the agreed questions. Price, school catchments, and the seller’s story about a future road are not in those questions unless they were written in at the start — and a future road is still only a story until some other document, not ours, makes it a line we can trace.
The comparison also does not replace a licensed survey. Several clients have taken our sheet to a surveyor afterward, which is the sequence we prefer. The sheet’s job is to stop a wasted survey on a site that already fails a condition you care about, or to make the surveyor’s brief more precise. It is a poor substitute for the certificate the land office expects.