Legal & title
Ownership, mortgages, caveats and court orders, plus registered easements and covenants on the title. Your conveyancer confirms these; SafeBuy flags the easements up front.
In your SafeBuy reportProperty due diligence · Australia
Before you make an offer, know what you're actually buying. SafeBuy checks flood, bushfire, zoning, overlays, easements and heritage against live government data, then gives you a plain-English report on any address in about 60 seconds.
Property due diligence is the research you do on a specific property before you commit to buying it: the checks that reveal what a listing photo and an open home never will. In Australia that means confirming who owns the land and what's registered against the title, then investigating the planning, environmental and hazard constraints that decide what you can do with the site and how much it might cost you.
It is the step between "I like this house" and "I'm signing the contract". Done well, it stops the two things that hurt buyers most: paying too much for a constrained site, and discovering an expensive surprise (a flood overlay, a sewer easement, a heritage listing) after settlement, when it's too late to walk away.
A thorough pre-purchase check covers six areas. A conveyancer handles the legal and contract review; SafeBuy handles the planning, hazard and site layers: the ones that usually require chasing council maps and reading overlay codes yourself.
Ownership, mortgages, caveats and court orders, plus registered easements and covenants on the title. Your conveyancer confirms these; SafeBuy flags the easements up front.
In your SafeBuy reportThe zone, precinct and overlays that decide what you can build, extend or subdivide: LEP zones in NSW, planning-scheme zones in QLD and VIC.
In your SafeBuy reportFlood and overland-flow overlays, bushfire (BAL) hazard, coastal erosion and inundation, landslide and acid sulfate soils.
In your SafeBuy reportHeritage and character overlays, vegetation and biodiversity controls, koala and EPBC habitat, native title and Aboriginal cultural heritage.
In your SafeBuy reportSewer, water and stormwater mains you cannot build over, transmission lines and easements, slope and contour, airport environs and noise.
In your SafeBuy reportA conveyancer reviews the contract and special conditions; a building-and-pest inspector checks the structure. SafeBuy tells you what to raise with each.
Constraints don't show up at an open home, but they change everything. A flood or overland-flow overlay can dictate minimum floor levels and raise your insurance for the life of the property. A bushfire (BAL) rating can add tens of thousands to a build or renovation. A sewer or drainage easement can make the part of the block you wanted to build on off-limits. A heritage or character overlay can stop the demolition or extension your plan depends on.
None of these are dealbreakers on their own, but you want to know about them before you're emotionally and financially committed, not after. That's the whole point of due diligence.
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Federal, state and council spatial services are queried in parallel, so nothing is estimated or cached stale.
Flood, bushfire, zoning, overlays, easements, heritage and more, with each finding cited to its government source, on interactive maps.
SafeBuy is a screening tool, not a valuation or a replacement for your conveyancer or building inspector. It tells you what to check and who to ask before you spend money on specialists, and where a council hasn't published a dataset, it says so rather than inventing a result.
Reports run Australia-wide across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, with the deepest per-council data across South East Queensland and the major NSW and VIC metros. Coverage is expanding continuously.
It is the research a buyer does on a specific property before signing a contract: verifying title and ownership, and investigating planning, environmental and hazard constraints (flood, bushfire, zoning, overlays, easements, heritage) that affect what you can do with the site and what it may cost.
Councils and state agencies publish flood overlays and bushfire (BAL) mapping, but they live on separate portals per council and state. SafeBuy queries those sources for a specific address and returns the flood, bushfire and other hazard findings together in one report, each cited to its source.
No. SafeBuy reads land constraints and hazards, not price. For a market value you would use a licensed valuer or a bank/agent appraisal. SafeBuy is the risk-and-planning screening step those tools skip.
No, and it is not meant to. SafeBuy is a screening tool that tells you what to check and who to ask before you spend money on specialists. Your conveyancer still reviews the contract and title; a building inspector still checks the structure.
You can search and preview any address for free without an account. The full report unlocks the interactive maps and a shareable PDF for a fraction of the cost of traditional paid due-diligence reports.
Reports run across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, WA and NT, with the deepest per-council data across South East Queensland and the major NSW and VIC metros. Coverage is expanding continuously.
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