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Buy property with confidence.

Where should I buy, and is this one a good buy. Ask either question in plain English and get the answer with the reason behind it. Or type a suburb or address.

Green drives growth Amber is mixed Red drags it downWe did the research.
Luke Metcalfe
Luke Metcalfe
Founder, Microburbs. 25 years of Australian property data.
TWO QUESTIONS, ANSWERED

Every buyer asks the same two things.

Where should I buy, and is this one a good buy. Everything we build answers one of those two. Ask in plain English and the answer comes back with the reason behind it, so you can act on it the same day.

Where should I buy

We forecast the street, not just the suburb. Green streets are set to beat the suburb, red ones to trail it. You pick the kerb before you pick the house. See the street research.

Is this a good buy

Sixteen risks measured at pocket level, each with its real effect on capital growth, plus our valuation of the property itself. You find out what drags it down before you bid. See how we value a property.

WHERE SHOULD I BUY

The suburb average hides the answer. The street does not.

Two homes one street apart can grow very differently. The suburb median blurs them into a single number. We give every street in Australia its own four year and eight year outlook, so you know which side of that median you are buying on.

Street Price Forecasts panel from a Bondi suburb report, each street with its own four year and eight year growth forecast
The Street Price Forecasts panel from the Bondi report. Green streets are forecast to beat the suburb, red to trail it. Top-picked streets have run about 6.6% a year ahead of the suburb in the 2012 to 2025 back-test, roughly $265,000 on a $1 million home.
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Streets forecast across Australia, in 14,069 suburbs. Every street gets its own outlook, never a borrowed suburb figure.

+7% / yr

Top-ranked streets beat the wider market by about 7% a year from 2014 to 2026. On a typical home that is around $150,000 ahead.

96%

Homes on the same street move the same direction about 96% of the time, far more than the suburb average. Read the paper.

IS THIS A GOOD BUY

Sixteen things that quietly cost you money.

Flight paths, flood lines, road noise, crime, new supply next door. Each one carries a measured effect on capital growth, read at pocket level rather than across the whole suburb. You see the drag before you bid, not after you move in.

Risks section from a suburb report listing sixteen environmental, infrastructure and social risks, each with its measured effect on capital growth
The Risks section from a live suburb report. Every risk carries its own measured effect on capital growth, so a red flag on one street does not condemn the whole suburb.
ONE SUBURB, TWO ANSWERS

Confidence means knowing which one you are buying.

The strong street and the weak street sit inside the same suburb median. Our signals split them apart. Here are two the forecast calls in opposite directions.

SuburbCity/SUAStreet signalOutlook against the suburb
NikenbahHervey Bay GreenForecast to beat the suburb by about 4% a year
Tea Tree GullyAdelaide RedForecast to trail the suburb by about 3% a year

Same data, opposite call. The buyer who reads the street walks into the auction knowing something the room does not.

ASK IT IN PLAIN ENGLISH

No tabs to learn. Just ask.

You do not need to know which report holds which number. Ask the question the way you would ask a buyer's agent, and the answer arrives with the street signal, the risks and the valuation attached.

Where

“Best streets in Fremantle under $900k” returns a ranked list, green signals first.

Whether

“Is this a good buy in Bondi” returns the valuation, the street outlook and the risks that matter.

Why

“Why is that street stronger” returns the signals doing the work, green for growth, red for drag.

WHY BELIEVE IT

Both answers are tested against what actually sold.

Confidence has to be earned on the record, not asserted. These are two different jobs, so each one is measured on its own terms.

87%

Valuing a property. Our valuation lands within 10% of the sale price about 87% of the time, tested on 182,517 homes under $800,000 that sold between 2020 and 2025. Read the research.

79%

Forecasting a place. Our suburb forecasts have called the direction right 79% of the time across 876,000 calls over 12 years. See the forecasts.

A valuation prices the house you are standing in. A forecast tells you where the street and the suburb are heading. We keep them apart because they answer different questions.

Watch

How to make money in the property market, post-budget.

Luke Metcalfe, who built Microburbs, on what the budget changed and how to buy after it. About 13 and a half minutes, seventeen slides, ending on “It is not when you buy, it is where, and what you pay.”

The full session, start to finish. No signup, nothing to fill in. It is a buying strategy talk, not a walk through the research behind the numbers above.
Down to the microburb

A suburb is not one market. It is dozens.

Open any suburb report and the map breaks the suburb into microburbs, each one priced on its own. The pale blocks and the dark blocks below sit inside the same postcode.

Map of Bondi broken into microburbs, each coloured by its own median sale price, with neighbouring suburbs shaded at suburb level
Bondi, split into microburbs and coloured by median sale price. The small blocks inside the outlined suburb are microburbs, banded from under $5.89M to $28.9M. The larger flat areas around it are neighbouring suburbs, shaded at suburb level. Toggle a row in the report and the map switches to growth, risk or any other measure.

Buy your next property with confidence.

Ask a question, read the street, check the risks, then decide. Read one report free before you pay for any.

“It gives our clients so much certainty. Independent data, quantified, and real peace of mind.”— Tabitha Bright, Buyers Agent
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Two jobs, two tools

A valuation prices a property. A forecast predicts a street or suburb.

They answer different questions, so we keep them separate. One tells you what a home is worth today. The other tells you where a street or suburb is heading.

Valuation, for a property

What this specific home is worth right now. Within 10% of the eventual sale price about 87% of the time, tested on 182,517 homes under $800,000 that sold between 2020 and 2025.

How the valuation works →   Comparable sales →

Forecast, for a street or suburb

Where values are heading next. Street-level patterns explain 96% of price moves, and our suburb forecasts score a 79% hit rate across 876,000 past calls over 12 years.

Street research →   Suburb forecasts →

Open research

We publish a paper to back every claim.

Since 2014 we have tested what actually drives Australian property growth, then built each finding into the platform. Every number on this page has a paper behind it, and you can read the lot.

View all published research →

Why street level

Homes on the same street move together 96% of the time.

National
13%
State
36%
Suburb
61%
Street
96%

Price agreement: how often homes at each level move the same direction. The suburb average hides it. Read the paper →

2B+
Data points
14,069
Suburbs
100+
Data sources
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Streets forecast
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In their words

What investors and agents actually say.

Direct quotes from customers on how they use the platform. Real names, real desks.

Replaces multiple subscriptions

This is what I was trying to do, get to a point where we use one tool rather than four. And that is great.

Scott AggettScott AggettBuyers Agent
Street-level precision

What I was missing with so many things was street level data.

Neil CaseyNeil CaseyBuyers Agent
Valuation accuracy

The valuation is amazing. CoreLogic sits around 13% out, yours is around 6%.

NSNilesh ShuklaInvestor
Decision confidence

It gives our clients so much certainty. Independent data, quantified, and real peace of mind.

Tabitha BrightTabitha BrightBuyers Agent
All in one place

So much better than leaning on multiple websites for public housing, flood zones and the rest.

DPDharmendra PatelInvestor
Nobody else forecasts

The projection, the prediction thing is really, really good, which no other tool does that.

HMHarshit MathurBuyers Agent, Empowered Buyers
A competitive edge

I do think it is going to give me an edge, the kind of detail that makes me stand out.

Darren CooperDarren CooperSelling Agent