FAQS

Urban Prospects is ideal for property developers, town planners, real estate professionals, and buyers’ agents who want a strategic edge in site acquisition and planning.

By giving users access to 100% of NSW properties, developers can directly approach property owners for off-market acquisitions, reducing acquisition costs and avoiding bidding wars.

Yes, we offer a cost-effective solution without unnecessary features for finding the right sites, ensuring you only pay for what you need.

Yes. It has been trialled extensively with clients of Urban Perspectives, uncovering hidden development opportunities and streamlining decision-making.

To set up your account you will require an email address and credit card.  We will also ask for your name, address and phone number in case we need to contact you about your account.  You will be asked to create a password for the account.

The data is continually updated in a cycle.  It takes approximately 3 months to complete the data update and then the process repeats itself.  If property information from one our sources is changed shortly after our update cycle is completed, then that change will not be in Urban Prospects data bank for 3 months. 

Yes, you can bookmark properties of interest and you will automatically be notified when they become available for sale.

Urban Prospects includes all registered land titles within New South Wales, Australia.

Planning data is primarily sourced from the NSW Department of Planning ePlanning services. Property data is sourced from NSW Land and Property Information Services.  Urban Prospects acts as reseller of Title Deeds and Dealing for Hazllets, who is a registered broker with NSW Land Registry Services. Sales and construction data is provided from various private providers. Urban Prospects collects some data it self.

Maintenance will be scheduled to occur outside of normal business hours in NSW.  Urban Prospects will notify you when maintenance is scheduled to occur. 

Hazlett are our broker for title searches and survey plans.  When you purchase title searches or survey plans you should receive them almost immediately. However, If Hazlett's or LRS' services are not operating when you purchase a title search or survey plan Hazlett will queue your request.  The title searches or survey plan will be sent to you when the services is operating again.  If you have not received your purchase by the next business day please email Urban Prospects at support@urbanprospects.com.au or contact us on 02.8071 4591

Urban Prospects actively incorporates user feedback through:

• Presentations, demos and consultations.

• Establishment of an Industry Reference Group to guide ongoing improvements.

We will work to continually improve Urban Prospects. We encourage you to sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date with our additional features. Current enhancements include:

1. We are currently working on enhancing the map features to incorporate mapped planning layers. 

2. We will gradually roll the ability to identify sites suitable for complying development for each different development types. 

3. We will add the ability to search for only corner lots, adjoining lots with the same owner and lots within a radius of a drop pin.

4. We will continually work to incorporate as many of the planning exceptions that apply to sites that are created by the various environmental planning instruments in NSW.  

Key initiatives during 2025 include adding the following features:

• White-label reporting.

• New search filters for complying developments.

• Pre-populated residual value calculators.

• Suburb insights and trends rollout.

• Historic development application data integration.

• Predictive sales indicators based on land registry data.