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The guides: hazards, registers and the checks that matter

Fourteen plain English guides. Each one explains a risk or a document, gives the free official route first, and tells you honestly what a report can and cannot automate.

Before you buy

The full due diligence checklist
Every check that matters, the free route for each, and which ones no report can do for you.
How flood risk really works in NSW
There is no single flood zone map. The three layers of truth and how to check each one.
Flood checks in Queensland
Council overlays, FloodWise reports and FloodCheck, and why Brisbane's mapping predates the 2022 flood.
Flood overlays in Victoria
LSIO, SBO, Floodway Overlay and Urban Floodway Zone, and how to read them free on VicPlan.
Bushfire prone land: what the map decides
The RFS map versus a BAL rating, and what being mapped changes for building work.
Checking building defect orders
The public register of serious apartment defects almost nobody searches.
Contaminated land checks
The EPA record, former petrol stations, and why an empty result is not a clean bill of health.
Flight paths, trains and main roads
Checking noise before you buy, including the Western Sydney Airport corridors.
Easements: the lines that decide what you can build
Rights of way, drainage and sewer strips, and why the map and the title can disagree.
The section 10.7 certificate, explained
What is in it, what is missing, and why it arrives after you have fallen for the house.
Buying at auction
No cooling off period means every check happens before you bid. The list, in order.
What a property report costs in Australia
Four different products share one name. An honest map of the options.

Before you rent

What to check before renting
The fifteen minutes on site, then the half of the check nobody can do in person.
Living near a train line or main road
What actually determines whether the noise will bother you, and the two visits that settle it.
Mould and damp before renting
The signs on the day, and the structural signals that predict a damp winter.

About the free check

What the free flag count means
What runs when you press the button, and why counts are never scores.

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