Development Potential
Queensland property & development

Where to buy. What to build.

Three tools, built on real government and market data — never estimates. Start with an area, a single address, or what councils are approving right now.

The market, right now

Reading the chain…

Building moves in a fixed order: rates, then lending, then what buyers actually pay on the day, then approvals, then starts, then finished homes.

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Why the order matters

Finance is arranged before a job is approved, approved before it starts, started before it finishes. So when a signal near the front of the chain turns and one behind it hasn't, the one behind it is next.

The lags are rules of thumb about that sequence, not predictions: lending leads approvals by roughly 2–3 quarters, clearance leads price by 1–2, starts lead completions by 4–6. A chain can stall halfway, which is why the position is read from what the signals show rather than projected forward.

Auction clearance · QLD

Auction clearance

The share of auctioned homes that actually sell. It turns before prices do, which makes it the earliest honest read on demand.

Weekly clearanceSame week last year
What this means

RBA cash rate

Cash rate

The driver at the top of the chain. Everything else responds to it, with a lag measured in quarters.

Cash rate at each decision
What this means

Dwelling approvals · Australia

Approvals

Every home councils approved, month by month. This is the supply that arrives in one to two years.

Approvals per month
What this means

Starts vs completions · Australia

Starts vs completions

Homes begun against homes finished each quarter. When the gap opens, work is banking up on sites rather than reaching the market.

StartedFinished
What this means

Area Explorer

Is this area any good?

Type a region and see every suburb in it on the numbers. Open any suburb for housing, schools, building activity, crime, people and an honest verdict — then compare the contenders.

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Strength Score
Every liquid QLD suburb percentile-ranked on five-year growth, gross yield, one-year momentum and sales turnover — the numbers' own ranking, scoped to the state, South East Queensland or one council.
Up and coming
Where growth is accelerating and prices are still affordable — the suburbs starting to move, not the ones that already have.
Coverage
… councils nationally and … Queensland suburbs with a live market read.
Land Use

What can I build here?

One address in. What the planning rules allow, what it costs to build, and what it's worth finished — out.

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Zoning & overlays
The real council planning scheme for that lot — flood, bushfire, acid sulfate soils, heritage.
What it's worth
A live Cotality (OnTheHouse) valuation and sale history on every search, beside the Valuer-General land value as the floor.
What it costs
Build costs from Cordell — not rules of thumb.
Applications

Find the building work near you.

Every development application lodged with 13 Queensland councils — by address, by suburb, or on the map — with who lodged it, so you can make your inquiry.

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Straight from council
Scraped from each council's own register, several times a day — the page shows when each was last run.
Who's behind it
The planners, builders, certifiers and engineers named on applications, across every council that publishes them.
Decision speed
Real median days from lodgement to decision, council by council.
Why it's built this way

Every number here traces to a real source. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap.