Property data and sources Every fact, with its source.
A property check reads public planning and hazard layers for the address and stores each result with where it came from and when. The valuer confirms or corrects it before it is used.
The property, from public layers.
Each result keeps its source, layer, a link to the query, the date it was read and the licence line.
Planning
Lot and plan, council, zoning and, where the state publishes them, height, floor space ratio and minimum lot size.
Hazards and heritage
Heritage, bushfire, flood, acid sulfate soils and mine subsidence, and nearby contaminated sites in NSW.
Area facts
Distance and direction to the CBD, the nearest station and schools, and a road description, each marked to confirm.
Overlay coverage
For NSW, Victoria, Queensland and the ACT, how much of the lot sits inside each zone, flood, bushfire or heritage layer.
NSW first, other states by layer.
Coverage differs by state. Where a layer is not checked, the result says so instead of staying silent.
NSW is the fullest
It has the most layers, including the planning controls from the local environmental plan.
Other states are partial
Victoria, Queensland, the ACT, South Australia and Tasmania have some layers. Western Australia has bushfire only, and the Northern Territory has none.
Free government sources
The sources are free government services, mostly with open licences. There is no commercial data feed behind them.
Good to know: the checks show the state of the layers on the day they were read, not on the valuation date.
What a check does not say.
Nothing mapped is not no risk
A layer with no result means nothing was mapped. It is never shown as a clean bill of health.
Sales are your own
There is a sales library for a firm’s own evidence, entered by hand or imported from a file. Valufield does not supply a sales feed.
No land value feed
Valuer-General land values and title searches are not brought in by a property check.
Straight answers.
Is it NSW only?
No, but NSW is the deepest. Other states have fewer layers, and each check lists what was and was not read.
Do we get comparable sales?
There is a sales library for evidence the firm holds, with search by distance and the valuer’s own rating. There is no supplied dataset.
Who decides what goes in the report?
The valuer. A result is a fact on the job only after the valuer confirms or corrects it.
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