Edition 07 · Aug 2026 Filed under — For Buyers' Agents Feasibly · The Brief

For Buyers' Agents

Screen the whole shortlist before Saturday's inspections.

Zone, overlays and permit triggers for every address on the list — across ~455 councils in 7 states. The planning surprise your client finds after settlement was findable on day one.

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FIG. 01 — ONE LOT, SHORTLISTED

Status quo

How the one you missed gets through

  1. 01

    The brief lands

    Thirty candidate properties across three council areas. Inspections start Saturday.

  2. 02

    You check the favourites

    Each one means a state portal, a zone panel, an overlay map. Ten minutes an address — so only the top few get checked.

  3. 03

    The client falls for #14

    The one that wasn't checked. Offer goes in Monday.

  4. 04

    The overlay surfaces later

    Heritage controls on the façade. The renovation your client planned needs a permit they didn't budget for — and it was your recommendation.

The lookup

What the pre-offer screen shows

PLAN BUILDABLE 8.26 m WIDE SORRETT AVENUE N SECTION 13.5 m MANDATORY · 4 STOREYS 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
  1. 01 Lot areaState cadastre · PFI 507083 969 m²
  2. 02 Frontage · depthState cadastre · regular lot 12 × 80.8 m
  3. 03 Zone & scheduleCl.32.10 · Stonnington HCTZ1
  4. 04 Max heightCl.32.10 · mandatory 13.5 m
  5. 05 Street setbackResCode Cl.55 · estimated 6 m
  6. 06 Side & rear setbackResCode Cl.55 1.87 m
  7. 07 Site coverageCl.32.10 · 581 m² 60%
  8. 08 OverlaysCl.43.01 + Cl.45.06 · permit HO396 · DCPO1

One call, one real address. Geometry is indicative; every value is the live answer. Garden area is absent because HCTZ1 has no garden-area requirement — we don’t invent a control to fill a row.

One lookup, three things that change the advice: a recent rezoning to a 13.5 m mid-rise zone (the street's future is not its past), heritage controls that make external changes a permit matter, and an infrastructure levy. Each carries its clause, so the note you send the client is checkable against the scheme rather than taken on trust.

Zone, with what it changes

Not just the code — the schedule-specific controls behind it, cited to the source page, confidence-tagged.

Every overlay on the parcel

Heritage, flood, bushfire, environmental, vegetation — clipped to the lot boundary, not “the area”. An empty list means checked-and-clear, never unchecked.

Whole-shortlist screening

Pro's batch endpoint takes up to 20 addresses per call, and its daily limits are sized for screening a full shortlist in one sitting — not just the favourites.

Subdivision signal

Lot size against the schedule's minimum, with the constraints that cut against it — a screening-grade read on the “value-add” conversation. (Pro.)

Wrong-zone guarantee

If we return the wrong zone, that lookup is free and we credit ten more. Every claim becomes a dataset correction.

A client-ready note

Every figure links to the exact planning scheme page it came from. Your recommendation carries sources, not “trust me”.

Before / after

The shortlist screen

Without it

~10 min per address — so most go unchecked

  1. Open the right state portal (each one is different)
  2. Enter address, wait for the map, read the zone panel
  3. Cross-check the overlay layers by eye
  4. Repeat × 30, or — realistically — check the top five and hope

With Feasibly

~30 sec per address, or one batch call

  1. Paste the shortlist
  2. Read the structured screen: zone, overlays, permit triggers, confidence
  3. Drop the source-linked note into your recommendation

Footnotes

What buyers' agents ask

Can I put this in my client recommendation?
Yes, with the attribution and source links included. It's preliminary screening — use it to flag issues early, and have anything deal-critical verified by a qualified planner before contract.
Does it cover the whole country?
VIC, NSW, SA, QLD, WA, ACT and TAS — roughly 455 councils. Depth varies honestly: Victorian council schedules are human-verified; NSW and QLD add machine-extracted dwelling controls (screening-grade); every state returns authoritative zone and overlay data. NT is deferred.
What if a zone comes back wrong?
That lookup is free and we credit 10 more. Every guarantee claim becomes a permanent dataset correction.
Can it tell me if a block is subdividable?
It gives a screening-grade signal: lot size against the schedule's minimum, plus the overlays and constraints that cut against it. It flags the conversation worth having — a surveyor or planner confirms it.

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