Get the answer on the block before you're locked in.
Inspection to auction, or to an offer, can be a week or two. Put the address in and see the zone, what the council allows, the overlays to check and the likely approval path, before you sign a contract or lock in finance. If you buy it, find a builder to price the work.
The auction's Saturday. You rang the council on Wednesday and nobody's called back, and nobody will before then. Put the address in instead and you'll get the zone, what the council allows on the block, the overlays over it and the likely approval pathway, without the clause numbers. It's free, and you don't need an account.
Check the block before the contract, not after
An agent can tell you the land size. The read tells you the rest, from the address alone: the zone and its name, what the council allows there, the overlays to check, and the likely approval pathway. In New South Wales the mapped overlays come with it, so a heritage, bushfire or flood flag shows up before you bid.
Where a council's controls aren't fully mapped yet, the read tells you so, and any overlay layer still to check is marked Not checked.
It stops you bidding on an assumption.
Take the read to your planner before auction day
Every address you check gets its own page. Send it to your planner, your builder or your broker, and everyone starts from the same read of the block before Saturday.
Get the work priced by someone who would do it
Once you know what the block allows, the next real number is what the work costs. Post the scope on Marketplace and builders or consultants quote on it. Search Marketplace for the ones you'd like to hear from, compare the quotes, and award the work if you go ahead. Each one records their licence, insurance and ABN on their profile. Urban Pulse doesn't check them with the issuer yet, so ask for them and check them before you award. Every paid plan includes Marketplace hiring.
If you buy it
Plan the work
Settle the idea with your planner or designer, using the read as the starting point.
Get the pack together
On Planning Pro, Planning builds your planning pack for you to review and lodge.
Lodge it
When it's complete, you lodge it. If you'd like help, you can bring in a town planner from Marketplace.
Sign with your builder
Read the quote or contract your builder sends on a private link, and sign it on your phone.
What buyers ask
What do I get for an address?
The zone and zone name, what the council allows there, the overlays to check and the likely approval pathway, free and with no account. Every address gets its own page you can share.
Does every state read the same way?
Seven: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT. If the property is in New South Wales the mapped overlays come with it, and no other state gives you that. In Queensland, zoning is covered for five councils and read against their own rules.
If I buy it, who lodges the planning application?
You do. On Planning Pro, Planning builds your planning pack for you to review and lodge, including a list of the documents to attach, shaped by the mapped overlays on the site (for NSW, separate lists for a development application and a complying development certificate), naming any layer we could not check and marking each document attached or not started. You lodge it yourself, or bring in a town planner through Marketplace to help.
Can I get a builder to price the work before I commit?
Yes, on a paid plan. Search Marketplace for builders or consultants, request quotes from the ones you shortlist, compare what comes back and award. Licence, insurance and ABN are recorded on each profile, not verified, so ask for them and make your own checks.
Walk in knowing what the block takes.
The zone, the overlays and the likely approval path, well before auction day. Check a block free now, and leave your email to hear when you can join.
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Urban Pulse is an Australian construction platform: check what a site allows, build the planning pack, get quotes from trades, send contracts and reports for signing, and run the build. Payments & Finance is coming soon.