Free Property Reports

What is a free property report?

A free property report provides you with a quick summary of property and planning information on a selected property. It is an easy-to-read PDF document that arms you with the essentials you need to know about that property.

How can I access my report?

This is a free report that is accessible through your state government planning website or through authorised providers. Landchecker provides a free property report to all customers within a seamless map-based experience.

What does a free report include exactly?

While a property report generally provides the same essential information whichever way you access it, here is the precise breakdown of what’s included on a property report provided by Landchecker:

PROPERTY DETAILS:

• Address
• Lot/Plan number or Crown Description SPI (Standard Parcel Identifier)
• Local Government/Council property number

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• Floor area
• Roof and floor materials
• Unit (type and number of amenities)
• Property sales history

STATE ELECTORATES

• Legislative Council and Assembly

COUNCIL INFORMATION

• Contact details

PLANNING ZONES

• Map overview of zones in the vicinity
• Links to relevant schedules and zones

PLANNING OVERLAYS

• Map showing planning overlays in the vicinity
• Links to relevant overlays and schedules

OTHER OVERLAYS IN THE VICINITY

• Map showing other overlays in the vicinity. Eg. Heritage overlay, environmental overlay, parking overlay
  

Why do consumers need a property report?

Whether you’re considering buying a property or looking to sell your home, you’ll want to have a property report on hand. It’s the one, reliable document that summarises the essential and relevant information about your subject property.

Property consumers these days are astute. They are engaged in market trends, savvy in determining property value, and keen to develop deeper insights that will help inform their decision-making when it comes to the biggest investment of their lives. At the very least, home buyers and owners today want to feel they are empowered with the right information at their fingertips.

For prospective buyers, a property report arms you with data sets you’ll need as a reference point when evaluating and comparing properties of interest. Getting a good gauge on property value helps clarify how much you’ll need to borrow before you make your big commitment. And a glance at the sales history of your property of interest gives you a good idea of how many times the property has been put on market and sold in recent years, and how much it has increased in value over that time. Burglary statistics are also useful in determining factors like insurance and safety of the neighbourhood.

For homeowners, it’s wise to be across key details about your property for your own knowledge and due diligence. Those considering developing, renovating or extending their home would want to check the relevant planning zones or heritage overlays that are outlined in the property report.

For those looking to sell, a property report outlines key details and attributes of your home, and also gives an idea of potential setbacks for future planning purposes that might affect interest in it.

Before you action the significant next stage of your property journey - even before you engage your selected property professionals to help you with that stage- you can equip yourself with a staple summary of your subject property simply by downloading an easy-to-read PDF property report.

Why through Landchecker?

We provide comprehensive property data for all states across Australia with 100% address and parcel coverage updated weekly to give you the data you need to make informed, insight-driven decisions. The property report is a free summary of your subject property, distilled from the data you can visually ingest through the application’s interactive map-view.

So, instead of spending time gathering property data from separate planning portals, state government land titles and council websites, simply download an easy-to-read PDF property report through Landchecker, and you’ll have your fundamental property information summarised for you.

Apart from it being free, this handy document is also available through Landchecker’s on-map application and made instantly available to you. No wait time, no hassle.

Can I get a property report for any property in Australia?

Through Landchecker, you can download a property report for any property within coverage. Landchecker is proud to have expanded its coverage nationwide - customers can view property details for every property nationally.

For a small fee, you can you can upgrade to a premium property report that unlocks additional attributes and data: land size, frontage, orientation, school information, recent planning scheme amendments, proposed planning scheme amendments, aerial imagery, comparable sales, planning permit history as well as nearby planning permits as well as elevation and digitised easements.