PropertyFlags · guideWhat a property report costs in Australia
Property report means at least four different products in Australia, at prices from free to hundreds of dollars, answering different questions. Here is the honest map, including what each one cannot tell you, and exactly where A$29 sits in it.
The four things people call a property report
Free portal and bank profiles: value estimates, sales history, suburb medians. Their question is what the property might be worth. Free because they feed loan and agent pipelines. They read no hazard register.
Paid valuation reports: a deeper version of the same question, from sales evidence, sometimes with a professional's judgement attached. Still silent on floods, defects and contamination.
Conveyancer certificates and searches: the authoritative planning and title record, ordered one by one at contract stage. Each certificate answers its own narrow question well, the set is priced per document, and by the time they arrive you are negotiating, not shortlisting.
Risk and hazard reports, where this product lives: the government registers read together for one address, before contract stage. The question is not what the home is worth but what the official record says about living in it.
What A$29 buys here, specifically
One address, every register we can query for its state in one pass: hazard mapping, planning controls, contamination records, defect orders, development applications nearby, noise exposure, school catchments, connectivity and area statistics, each finding named with its register and snapshot date, with the question it hands you for the agent. A lot diagram from the official cadastre, winter sun geometry, a permanent link and a PDF in your inbox. The renter edition reads the same registers through a renter lens for A$19.
And the honest boundary, stated as plainly here as in the report: no value estimate, no score, no verdict, no inspection, no legal review. If sources fail and the report cannot pass its own release checks, it is refunded rather than delivered incomplete.
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Common questions
Why are bank property reports free?
Because they are lead generation for home loans, and because their core is a value estimate produced from sales data. They answer what a property might be worth. They do not read hazard registers, defect orders or contamination records, because that is not their question.
What do conveyancer searches cost and when do they happen?
Individually ordered certificates and searches typically run from tens of dollars each and happen at contract stage, ordered by your conveyancer for the property you are already committed to. They are authoritative and late. The register sweep here happens at shortlist stage, before you fall in love.
What does the A$29 report deliberately not do?
No value estimate, no price prediction, no investment advice, no score, no verdict. No building inspection and no legal review, and the report says so on its own pages. It reads the official registers for one address and hands you the findings with their sources; the decisions stay with you and your advisers.
What if a section of the report fails?
If government sources fail and the report cannot pass its own release checks, it is not delivered as complete: the link stays valid to retry, and if it cannot be produced, the purchase is refunded. A report you did pay for lists any source that did not respond as unavailable rather than pretending it was clear.