Phase 1 ESA Cost: Pricing Factors & Average Rates

A Phase I ESA is priced on effort: how many parcels, how messy the history, how far the records are scattered, and how soon you need the report. It is not a menu item, and this page is not a Cypress fee schedule.

Published industry chatter often puts a straightforward small commercial site in the low thousands of dollars, with larger or dirtier histories higher. Those are not our rates, and they go stale. If someone quotes a number before they know the address, they are guessing.

What actually moves the price

  • Number of adjoiners and historical uses (gas, dry cleaner, marina, industrial).
  • Need for extra historical sources or a site visit that is not a parking-lot drive-by.
  • Rush. AAI still has a shelf life; rushing the records is how RECs get missed.
  • Whether the lender has extra scope (vapor, wetlands, or a Phase II hold).

If a number you saw on an older version of this page looked like a Cypress average, it was mill copy. Ask us for a scoped quote.

Cypress Environment & Infrastructure will price a Phase I once we have the address and the lender’s scope.

Questions about how this applies to a Gulf Coast site? Cypress Environment & Infrastructure works from Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola. Office hours are Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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