PropertyFlags

Find the red flags first.

Before you fall in love
with the property,
know what’s really there.

All the government records on a property, together, in a minute. So you decide faster, and with the facts.

Aerial photo of the sample address with the lot outlined and three findings from its report
  • EPA contamination6 sites within 500 m
  • Flood planning areaCouncil keeps its own map
  • Heritage registerNo entry
Sample address, Waterloo NSW · aerial imagery NSW Spatial Services, January 2021 · white outline: the lot

Three of the 25 registers read here · Open the NSW sample report · Watch the film

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Read a sample report and see the kind of information we find, where it comes from, and how you can check it yourself.

Open the NSW sample report

From a real report for a Sydney address, street number hidden. Every number is the register’s, with the date it was read.

Cover page of the NSW sample report: address, flag counts and the lot diagramThe flags page: red, yellow and green counts with how to read themScan summary page: every register checked, chapter by chapterRisks on record page: flood, bushfire, heritage and other register tiles
Before the inspection. Before the auction.

Five questions the open house can’t answer.

  1. 1Is there an in-force defect order on this building?
  2. 2Is it on the flood map, and what does that mean for insurance?
  3. 3What is planned or approved next door?
  4. 4Is there a contamination record nearby?
  5. 5Will future flight paths pass overhead?

None of these is visible from the street, and every one of them sits in an official register. Checks vary by state; the report names every register it consulted.

Every register. One address.

On the buyer’s side. On the renter’s side.

We are not an agent and we do not sell loans. A PropertyFlags report shows the facts the official registers hold about an address, with the source and the date, so you can decide with the record in front of you.

What we read, state by state
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Available now: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, TAS, ACT. Western Australia and the Northern Territory: coming soon.
Including these 24 registers for a New South Wales addressOpen the NSW sample report
  • Flood planning area (state layer, or the council's own map where published)
  • Observed flooding (2021 to 2022 satellite extents)
  • Bushfire prone land
  • Heritage register
  • Landslide risk
  • Acid sulfate soils
  • Mine subsidence
  • Compulsory acquisition
  • EPA contamination
  • EPA licensed operations
  • Building defect orders
  • Loose fill asbestos
  • Biodiversity values map
  • Rezoning and urban release
  • Future transport corridor
  • Aircraft noise
  • Main road
  • Rail line
  • High voltage line
  • Late licensed venues
  • Fixed line NBN
  • Mobile base stations
  • Block grade
  • Dual occupancy and granny flat pre tests

Read from NSW Government · NSW Rural Fire Service · NSW EPA · Building Commission NSW · Transport for NSW · BOCSAR · Australian Bureau of Statistics · ACMA · nbn.

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Buyer’s report

A$29

Every register we can read for the state, what each finding could mean, and the questions for the real estate agent. PDF to keep.

Run it before the inspection. Run it again before the auction.

Renter’s report

A$19

The same registers, read for a tenant: noise, defect orders, hazards, and the questions for the property manager. PDF to keep.

Run it before the inspection. Run it again before you sign the lease.

Buyer's report cover, NSW sampleBuyer’s reportRenter's report cover, NSW sampleRenter’s report

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In the press

PropertyFlags is also
a research lab.

We cross whole state registers with each other and publish what we find; newspapers report it.

View our research  →
The research
behind the story26,532development applications checked against the NSW flood planning layer
  • Official government data
  • Independent analysis
  • Real-world impact

Know what’s there before you commit.

Check an address and see the flag count for free. No account, no card.

Sample · NSW · 24 checks run

An apartment building in Waterloo, Sydney

0Red flags
4Yellow flags
20Green
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PropertyFlags · Sydney, Australia · ABN 23 142 520 951 · hello@propertyflags.com.au. Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see your card details. The register responses behind every paid report are kept for 90 days after purchase; email us and we send you the file. Address search uses G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open G-NAF End User Licence Agreement. Contains data © the States and Territories of Australia and other suppliers, reproduced under Creative Commons Attribution licences.