PropTech & Urban Development

The kumbez.com platform: transparency, safety and growing capitalisation for your property

KUMBEZ is a Kazakhstani PropTech platform and a full-cycle architecture and urban planning company. Our mission is to transform the property market by removing legal and urban planning risk entirely. We give developers 100% data transparency and guarantee landowners faster deals and higher asset values.

Land and buildings, the topographic survey, the master plan and analytics converging on Kumbez, with Almaty and the mountains behind

Lawful data collection and the limits of our responsibility

We combine modern survey technology, geographic information systems (GIS) and experience in volumetric design. So that an investor or an architect can work with a property safely, we assemble a plot geopassport — a complete survey package:

A surveyor compares a plot's actual boundary with its cadastral one on a monitor: the overlap is hatched and the difference in area labelled

Property identification

We establish the plot's exact physical and cadastral boundaries, detect overlaps with neighbouring plots, check the state cadastre coordinates and confirm the area.

A drone scans a plot between buildings: the outline with corner coordinates, and a 3D terrain model on a tablet

Aerial survey by UAV (drones)

We fly a high-detail aerial photo survey of the site and produce up-to-date high-resolution orthophoto maps and digital 3D terrain models for accurate siting analysis.

A topographic plan of a plot with contour lines and underground utility networks, a surveyor with a total station behind

Engineering topographic survey

We produce topographic plans at scales of 1:500 – 1:2000, mapping every above-ground and underground utility line, and agree the result with the utilities that operate them.

A model of a quarter laid out to the detailed development plan: zones Zh-1, Zh-5, OTs-1 and an education zone, streets and a square

Detailed planning project extract

We obtain and interpret extracts from the General Plan and the Detailed Planning Project (DPP) to analyse designated use, permitted density and number of storeys.

Building on this primary data, the kumbez.com architecture bureau also develops concepts — from an urban master plan to the volumetric design of residential complexes, business centres and industrial facilities.

Why does this data matter? (Comprehensive urban planning audit)

Given the region's difficult terrain and tectonic setting (Almaty and the Almaty region in particular), the core value of our platform is a thorough check of engineering-geological and legal constraints before a deal is signed. We collect and analyse the data to protect a project from fatal mistakes:

Seismic and fault-line analysis: Identifying the zones affected by active seismic faults, and calculating the required setbacks and permissible structural strength parameters.
Water protection zones and strips: Establishing the exact boundaries of the water protection strips along rivers and reservoirs, which rules out the risk of a strict ban on building inside a protection strip.
Utility protection zones and servitudes: Checking power lines, trunk gas pipelines and water mains, and calculating the actual constraints on the building footprint.
Sanitary and red line control: Accounting for sanitary protection zones around industrial facilities and for the building lines set by urban planning regulations.

Diagram: the constraints on a plot — a seismic fault, a water protection zone, a utilities corridor and the building line, and the footprint left over

This audit lets us find the “green zone” — a validated area (a clean building footprint) that is entirely free of urban planning risk and ideal for design and investment.

Invest in land with no blind spots: why properties on KUMBEZ sell higher and faster

Every investor knows how much time and nerve goes into checking an ordinary plot. KUMBEZ changes the rules of the game, turning a risky land purchase into a transparent, predictable asset.

Chart: a KUMBEZ-verified property's capitalisation is 20-30% higher than an ordinary plot's

Time is money: level of trust

An ordinary property: Costs the investor 2–3 months of gruelling independent checks, enquiries and waiting.
A property on KUMBEZ: Maximum trust from the first click. Every figure is already digitised, checked and validated — no paperwork run-around.

Protecting your capital: deal safety

An ordinary property: Buying a “raw” plot is a gamble. A high risk of the project being cancelled at the APZ stage (the architectural and planning assignment) because of hidden seismic or water protection zone constraints.
A property on KUMBEZ: 100% transparency on the boundaries of the building footprint. You know exactly what you may build and where before you sign.

Off to a running start: ready to work

An ordinary property: The buyer spends months and budget of their own ordering a topographic survey and a DPP extract, and collecting the basic certificates.
A property on KUMBEZ: A complete source package (drone + topographic plan + DPP) that can go straight to the project's Chief Architect, with design starting the day you buy.

Higher returns: capitalisation

An ordinary property: Sells at the base market price, but always at a steep discount — buyers price the hidden risks in.
A property on KUMBEZ: Earns a premium valuation (+20-30%) purely through impeccable documentary transparency and readiness to build.

With KUMBEZ you are not simply buying land. You are buying certainty, time saved, and a liquid asset worth more.

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