FAQS

What is Urban Prospects designed for?

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.

How does Urban Prospects offer a competitive edge?

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.

How easy is it to use Urban Prospects?

Our platform is designed to be user-friendly, requiring only a basic understanding of property to navigate effectively.

 

How does Urban Prospects save me time?

Our comprehensive search engine and sophisticated filtering rules streamline the process of finding suitable sites for land development, saving you valuable time.

Is Urban Prospects cost-effective?

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

Has Urban Prospects been tested?

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

Do I need to create an account?

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.

Once I have created an account are the properties from past searches automatically updated if the planning controls for that site change?

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. 

Can I receive alerts for new property listings?

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

What area of land can I search?

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

Does Urban Prospects identify sites for identifying Complying Development Certificates (CDC)?

Yes, currently Urban Prospects can identify sites suitable for obtaining a CDC for dual occupancies, effectively bypassing council and fast-tracking development. We will expand this to include sites suitable for other CDC types.

Where is the data sourced from?

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.

What will happen if I purchase title search or survey plan whilst NSW Land Registry Services (LRS) in not operating?

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

How is Urban Prospects evolving with user feedback?

Urban Prospects actively incorporates user feedback through:

• Presentations, demos and consultations.

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

What additional features could be provided in the future?

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.  

What is the technology and commercial roadmap for Urban Prospects?

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.