Tools that turn data into decisions
A few things we lean on constantly: simple maths to show why buying at cost beats buying at retail, market research to decide where to buy, and a way to find the development sites in the first place. They're all here.
Retail vs developer cost price
A retail buyer pays the developer's margin. Acquire at cost and that margin becomes your equity, on the same rent. Plug in your own numbers to see the difference.
The Manufactured Equity Calculator
Pick a retail price, discount and interest rate, and instantly see the equity, yield and cash-flow difference between buying at developer cost price and buying at retail. Includes two worked examples at the 20% below valuation this approach targets, shareable links and a printable summary.
Open the calculator →Boomscore: where the fundamentals are quietly strengthening
Before we look at land anywhere, we look at the suburb. Boomscore, our sister research site, is where that starts: it tells you whether buyers are outrunning the homes for sale, suburb by suburb.
We treat it as one input among several, weighed alongside our own supply-and-demand modelling. No score is a crystal ball, and none of them can tell you what is about to be built down the road. But reading the same signals the same way for every suburb beats a hunch every time.
What a Boom Score tells you
Boomscore rates more than 15,000 Australian suburbs out of 100 on one question: are there more buyers than homes for sale? It reads nine market signals for every suburb, and scores houses and units separately, so a suburb can be running hot for one and flat for the other.
- Where demand is outrunning supply right now. Every suburb gets a score and a band, from No Go Zone to Hotspot Alert, on one scale, so you can compare a regional town with a capital-city suburb fairly.
- How fast homes are actually selling. Market absorption rate compares the homes sold over the last 30 days with everything listed for sale, so you can see at a glance whether buyers are clearing stock or it's piling up.
- The other eight signals. Days on market, vendor discounting, auction clearance and vacancy rates among them, each with its trend.
- When a suburb you're watching turns. Market Alerts email you when a signal or the median price moves past a level you set, so you don't have to keep checking.
It works at suburb level. Its job is to cut 15,000 suburbs down to a shortlist worth your weekend, not to pick the street or the property for you. The easiest way to test it is to look up a suburb you already know in Suburb Profiler, which is free, and see whether the score agrees with your gut.
Boomscore is our sister research site, so we're not a neutral judge of it. Its track record is published, so you can check it for yourself.
Stash Property: find developable sites, not just listings
Boomscore tells you which suburbs are worth a look. Stash Property helps you find the actual blocks. It turns 13 million titles and 15,000 suburbs into a shortlist of sites you could develop, with the zoning, overlays and feasibility checks in one place.
It is where a lot of our early site filtering happens, so a vague hunch about an area becomes a concrete list we can take into feasibility.
What it helps you answer
- Which blocks the planning scheme will actually let you develop
- What overlays or easements sit over a site before you commit
- Whether the feasibility and end demand stack up
- Where the off-market opportunities are, early
Stash Property is a third-party product. We are not affiliated with it; we just find it useful.
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