Demographics · Australia
Census demographics, suburb context, household and population indicators.
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PropertyLens combines free public datasets, licensed property feeds, and official-search checklists so buyers can understand what is known from open data and what still needs a legal certificate, registry search or professional review.
Important: Open-data findings are indicators only. PropertyLens does not claim to provide a current title search, planning certificate, rates certificate, water certificate, land tax clearance or solicitor review. Where a legal search is required, we identify the official pathway and link to the relevant authority.
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Government, council and public-interest datasets used for planning, zoning, environmental, cadastre, demographics and development-application indicators.
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Commercial listing and market feeds used where licensed access, terms and rate limits permit.
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Registry, land titles and certificate authorities used to identify what must still be ordered or reviewed legally.
Free and open
These are the public or government-backed sources used or configured for open-data indicators. They help flag likely zoning, overlays, flood, heritage, contamination, development activity, demographics and parcel context.
Demographics · Australia
Census demographics, suburb context, household and population indicators.
Visit sourceInterest rates · Australia
Cash rate and interest-rate context for borrowing sensitivity and market commentary.
Visit sourceDevelopment applications · Australia
National development application fallback where state or council DA APIs are not yet available.
Commercial use requires a paid PlanningAlerts plan or separately operated open-source scrapers.
Visit sourceAddress spine · Australia
National address normalisation and matching foundation for property records.
Open under CC BY 4.0 with mail-use restrictions.
Visit sourceBoundaries · Australia
LGA, statistical, electoral and administrative boundary context for property pages.
Visit sourceSales evidence · New South Wales
Free weekly sales evidence feed used as a CoreLogic-substitute for NSW comparable sales.
State sales feeds require ingestion timestamps and source attribution in reports.
Visit sourceSales evidence · Victoria
Quarterly Valuer-General Victoria sales aggregates and time series for suburb and market context.
Visit sourceSales and valuations · Queensland
Queensland valuation and land-context signals for market evidence and site-value context.
Visit sourcePlanning and zoning · Brisbane, QLD
City Plan zoning, overlays and property-boundary indicators for Brisbane properties.
Visit sourceParcels and overlays · Brisbane, QLD
Queryable FeatureServer layers for zoning, parcel boundaries and flood-planning indicators.
Visit sourceHeritage · Queensland
State heritage indicators used alongside local planning overlays.
Visit sourceCadastre and spatial data · Queensland
DCDB/cadastre and spatial data fallback for QLD parcel and planning checks.
Visit sourcePlanning · Gold Coast, QLD
City Plan service catalogue for zoning and overlay research as layer IDs are verified.
Layer-level verification is staged before full automated reporting.
Visit sourcePlanning overlays · Sunshine Coast, QLD
Planning Scheme 2014 overlay indicators including flood, bushfire, coastal and acid sulfate layers.
Visit sourcePlanning · New South Wales
EPI planning layers and planning-certificate API metadata for participating councils.
Visit sourceDevelopment applications · New South Wales
Direct NSW development application feed where councils participate in the Planning Portal.
Visit sourceDevelopment applications · Victoria
Public development application search pathway for Victorian planning applications.
Visit sourceEnvironmental risk · New South Wales
Notified contaminated land indicators; official searches may still be required.
Visit sourcePlanning · Victoria
Planning property reports, zones, overlays and parcel lookups through Victorian planning services.
Visit sourceSpatial data · Western Australia
Public spatial services for planning, cadastre, heritage and environmental indicators.
Visit sourcePlanning · South Australia
Planning and Design Code zones and overlays for South Australian property research.
Visit sourcePlanning and cadastre · Tasmania
LIST open spatial layers for zoning, planning overlays, cadastre and easement indicators.
Visit sourcePlanning · Northern Territory
Open web planning and land-information checks while stable APIs are verified.
Visit sourceEnvironmental and natural resources · Northern Territory
Natural-resource layers including land, vegetation, fire history, groundwater and soils.
NT remains a thinner-coverage jurisdiction; fallbacks are required for local planning and DA data.
Visit sourcePlanning and territory data · Australian Capital Territory
Territory Plan zones, overlays, heritage, bushfire and land custodianship map layers.
Visit sourceOpen government data · Australian Capital Territory
ACT open datasets including contaminated-sites indicators and other territory registers.
Visit sourceElevation and slope · Australia
LiDAR and DEM products for slope, flood, site-access and construction-risk indicators.
Visit sourceEnvironmental protection · Australia
Commonwealth protected-matters context for biodiversity and environmental due-diligence checks.
Visit sourceEnvironmental spatial data · Australia
Commonwealth GeoServices, WMS and WFS layers for protected areas, heritage and environmental constraints.
Visit sourceAmenities and walkability · Australia
POI and walkability proxy data where licence obligations can be met.
ODbL obligations require separate legal review before derived database use.
Visit sourceTransport access · Australia
Transit stop, route and service-frequency context from state transport open-data portals.
Visit sourceShort-stay market · Selected Australian cities and regions
Quarterly published CSVs for short-stay context where allowed by the data policy.
Use published CSVs only; do not scrape or republish the data.
Visit sourceLicensed and commercial
These sources support listing context, market analytics and sale-history enrichment where permitted by access credentials, rate limits and commercial terms.
Listings and sales · Australia
Current listing context, listing metadata and selected sales-history enrichment via official API channels.
Use official API access only; do not scrape Domain pages.
Visit sourceMarket analytics · Australia
Licensed market signals and property analytics where available.
Licensed feed; availability varies by product and commercial terms.
Visit sourceListings and market context · Australia
Supplementary market context only where permitted by official access controls and terms.
Do not scrape REA pages; use PropTrack/API channels where licensed.
Visit sourceBuilding footprints and attributes · Australia
Commercial building footprints, height and structure attributes when revenue justifies premium licensing.
Premium Wave 4 candidate; not required for the open-data baseline.
Visit sourceOfficial and legal
These are the authorities or official pathways a conveyancer, solicitor or buyer may need for legally reliable searches. PropertyLens uses them as an official-search checklist unless approved paid integrations are in place.
Official title searches · Queensland
Current title, historical title, dealings, plan images and registered instruments.
Visit sourceOfficial title searches · New South Wales
Title searches, dealings, deposited plans, survey plans and historical title products.
Visit sourceOfficial title and certificates · Victoria
Title, plan, property certificate and official ordering pathways.
Visit sourceOfficial title and interest reports · Western Australia
Certificate of title, survey plans, encumbrances and Property Interest Reports.
Visit sourceOfficial title and Form 1 products · South Australia
Register Search, Register Search Plus, plan/title details and Form 1 products.
Visit sourceOfficial title searches · Tasmania
Folio text, folio plans, easement schedules and related official land-search products.
Visit sourceOfficial title searches · Australian Capital Territory
ACTLIS title, historical title, unit title, instruments, deposited plans and crown leases.
Visit sourceOfficial title searches · Northern Territory
NT title searches, dealings, land information and professional/manual search products.
Visit sourceOfficial certificates · Australia
Planning certificates, rates certificates, water/sewer searches and local council certificates.
Certificate names and ordering channels differ by state and council.
Visit sourceOfficial search reseller · Australia
Pay-per-search ordering channel for title, certificate, company and legal-risk products.
Visit sourceOfficial search reseller · Australia
Pay-per-search government and property information broker, especially useful for Queensland pathways.
Visit sourceOfficial search reseller · Australia
Alternate pay-per-use channel for title, property and company search workflows.
Visit sourceProperty research is only useful when you can trace it back to the source. PropertyLens reports should help buyers ask better questions, not replace official certificates or professional advice. If a result matters to a purchase decision, verify it with the linked authority and your solicitor, conveyancer, valuer or planner.