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Nobody buys a block on a hunch. Plenty of people buy one on a second-hand answer from whoever is selling it. Put the address into Properties and you'll read it yourself, off live state planning services: the zone and its name, what the council allows on the site, the overlays sitting over it, and the likely approval pathway. This is site intelligence, for buyers, builders and agents.
What Properties returns for an address
Zone and zone name first, because the zone sets which rules apply. Then what the council allows on it, the overlays to check and the likely pathway.
In Planning, on Planning Pro or Urban Pulse Pro, the same read goes further. Where the controls are mapped, Planning gives you the envelope: maximum height, maximum storeys, front, side and rear setbacks, maximum site coverage, minimum garden area and car parking. Path Advisor names the likely route, complying development, a development application, or exempt, and what would push it to a full DA.
Zone and zone name
First on the page, so you know which planning rules apply.
What the council allows
Listed as uses, like dwelling house or dual occupancy.
The overlays on this site
Extra controls like heritage or flood. Every overlay shows its result, including Not checked.
The likely approval pathway
The route a proposal would most likely take: exempt, complying development or a DA.
The envelope, in Planning
On Planning Pro or Urban Pulse Pro: height, storeys, setbacks, site coverage, garden area and parking, where the controls are mapped.
Read live, state by state
It covers seven states and territories: NSW, Victoria, Queensland, WA, SA, Tasmania and the ACT. NSW reads include the mapped overlays. Queensland reads use each council's own rules, for five councils today. The Northern Territory is not covered.
If we can't match the address to a property, Properties shows you nothing. No zone, no default standing in for one. If it matches but your council's own controls aren't fully mapped yet, the read tells you so, and any overlay layer we didn't read is listed as Not checked. Not checked is not an all-clear. It means somebody still has to go and look.
Take it to your planner, and to council
Properties gives you a site's published planning position, so you start the conversation with your planner, your consultant or the council already knowing the basics.
Questions about Properties
Does every state read the same way?
No. Seven states and territories are live, and the depth differs. New South Wales is the only one where we pull the mapped overlays for you. In Queensland the read comes from the council's own planning scheme, and today that covers five councils: Brisbane, Gold Coast, Logan, Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast. Anywhere else, a figure taken from the state scheme's default says so. The Northern Territory is not live.
One block, all the way back to market
Checking an address is free in seven states and territories. When it is worth going further, the same site carries into Planning, a planning application checked against the council's checklist, a town planner from Marketplace if you want one, and the contractors you find. Years later, when it goes back on the market, the record of what got built is already sitting on the job.
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.
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