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Here’s what’s new in Landchecker early April 2024

Property Details API

Customers can now access property details data including zones, land size, site dimensions orientation and frontage on a property searched for via the Landchecker API. Find out more about the data products we offer and formats via our data on demand page or reach out to our sales team to discuss your data needs today via our data enquiry page.

Planning permit/DAs API

Customers can now also access planning permit/DA data by searching a property along with the above mentioned property details via the Landchecker API. Find out more about the data products we offer and formats via our data on demand page or reach out to our sales team to discuss your data needs today via our data enquiry page.

EMR searches now available in Landchecker

QLD Environmental Management and Contaminated Land Registers reports are now available in Landchecker’s Queensland offering. Reports are available on all Queensland properties and can be found in the documents tab in the right hand side panel and via standard searches on the document searches page.

Corelogic data update

Corelogic sales history data added to premium property reports in Victoria.

Here’s what’s new in late March 2024

Custom Branded Premium Property Report Covers‍

Customers on Advanced plans now have the ability to create their own branded premium report covers. Simply search a property via the homeowners page or address search and click the view report button to access the premium report for your subject property.

Choose from 3 cover designs - two for residential properties and one for industrial properties - and edit the following fields:

• Brand colour and text colour
• Company name and logo
• Prepared by name, email, phone number and profile picture
• Report title and subtitle
• Prepared for field.

Head over to our property report page to find out more or read our how to articles to learn how to get the most out of premium property reports.

Sales data now available in ACT

With our recent rollout of ACT we are pleased to announce that we now have the following sales data:

• Last sold price and date
• Property type (residential, commercial etc)
• Property attribute (bedrooms, bathrooms and car space)
• Historical sales history

New zones added to Queensland

The following zones and scheme links have been added to our Queensland offering:

• Cassowary Coast Regional zones and scheme links
• Western Downs Regional zones and scheme links
• Maranoa Regional zones and scheme links

Here’s what’s new in Landchecker mid March 2024

QLD Koala data‍

Koala biodiversity data has been added to our Qld offering. This includes 5 different datasets covering the south east corner of Qld including the following:

• Koala Core Habitat
• Koala Habitat Restoration Area
• Koala Habitat Restoration Area - Koala Priority Area
• Koala Priority Area
• Locally Refined Koala Habitat Area

Replace standard aerial imagery with satellite in WA

‍Our Western Australian offering now looks similar to our South Australian offering. This is the first iteration of an ongoing project to improve the standard imagery nationally.

API access to generate you own key

We have created a page in the business account settings where customers can request access to our API’s. Once activated customers can generate their own API keys and choose a testing or live environment. API's are currently available for property reports with the Permits/DA API soon to be released.

More Zones in Queensland

‍The following zone data has been release in the Landchecker platform:

• Lockyer Valley zones and scheme links
• Whitsunday Regional zones and scheme links

Other improvements and bug fixes:

• Add phone number to sign up form
• Bug fix - High Resolution Imagery: roads and parks were showing when zones toggled on/off. This issue is now fixed.

Here’s what’s new in Landchecker early February 2024

More Zones in Queensland‍

The following zone data has been release in the Landchecker platform:

• Townsville zones and scheme links
• Gladstone zones and scheme links
• Fraser Coast zones and scheme links
• Cairns Regional and scheme links
• Mackay zones and scheme links
• Central Highlands zones and scheme links
• Livingstone zones and schemes links
• Scenic Rim zones and scheme links

This is in addition the following zones that are already live in QLD:

• Brisbane
• Gold Coast
• Moreton Bay
• Logan
• Sunshine Coast
• Ipswich
• Toowoomba
• Redland
• Bundaberg
• Noosa

Advertised Permits are now live

You can now view advertised permits, simply head over to the Permit/DA section in the left hand side panel. We now show two categories; in progress and decision made. In progress contain pending and advertised permits and decision made contain approved, pending and rejected. Note the municipalities listed below with an asterisks have no regular permits, only advertised permits.

• Entire ACT
• NSW Kempsey
• NSW Inner West
• QLD Toowoomba Regional
• VIC Greater Geelong
• VIC Knox
• VIC Banyule *
• VIC Colac Otway *
• VIC Queenscliffe *
• VIC Yarriambiack *

New Victorian Property Certificates available

‍Our team has been working hard to bring our Victorian customers the remaining Property Certificates including:

• Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution (GAIC) Certificate
• Flood Level
• Mine Subsidence
• Extract of Priority Sites Register
• Catchment & Land Protection
• National Trust Certificate
• Designated Bushfire Prone Area(s) and Planning Report
• Sale History Report
• Destroyed Instrument
• Crown Land Agricultural License Search
• Crown Cancelled Folio Search
• Legal Point of Discharge/Stormwater Legal Point of Discharge
• Water Information Statement (MELTON)

Bug fixes including:

• Address search when left hand side panel open bug fix
• Fixes for permits in Ipswich, Banyule and Wodonga

Here’s what’s new in Landchecker early January 2024

• Quick buy‍

Landchecker customers with invoicing terms or a primary credit card added to their account can now bypass the checkout and purchase documents with one click.

• New security added on sign up

‍Following recommendations received in a recent pen testing report the team have updated some security protocols involving passwords and account set up.

• Permit maintenance for WA, Qld and NSW

Here’s what’s new in Landchecker late December 2023

• New Qld zones added to the Landchecker experience including:
  • Toowoomba
  • Bundaberg
• Right hand side design update

‍The following data has been removed from the right hand side property panel and all property reports:

• Floor Area
• Roof Material
• Wall Material
• Year built

These data attributes from CoreLogic were consistently unavailable. As such Landchecker has made the decision to remove this data from the platform whilst we review and consider additional improvements and access to a more complete dataset. Please reach out to support@landchecker.com.au to give feedback on what you would like to see in Landchecker.

• UX Improvements to the plans page

‍Customers with a plan now see the amount of seats they are paying for when viewing this page and add or remove seats to quickly see the new quoted price and easily upgrade from here.

• ACT in reports

‍Premium property reports are now available for all ACT properties.

• Qld Bushfire

‍Bushfire prone area is now available in Landchecker for the Qld Municipalities of:

• Brisbane City Council
• Logan
• Moreton Bay
• Redlands
• Gold Coast

Here’s what’s new in Landchecker in December 2023

• Australian Capital Territory
  ‍We are pleased to announce that Landchecker customers can now access property data for the ACT including searching addresses, zones, overlays, bushfire prone areas, permits and high resolution aerial imagery. This data is available on the map as well as in the property reports.
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• Victorian Document Search Improvements
  • Address matching improvements when ordering Victorian property documents.
  • Victorian Certificates now addressed to the organisation and not the individual that ordered the document.
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• NSW LRS bugfix
  ‍Extra information that was missing on the title is now fixed.
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• Notifications bugfix
  ‍Previous page loading issue when customer has 100+ notifications now fixed
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• Security improvements including:
  • Virus scanning
  • Weak password policy

Here’s what’s new in Landchecker mid November 2023

• Section 151 Owners Corporation Certificate - Owners corporation certificates have now been added to the suite of products Landchecker offers in Victoria. You can search these documents via the document search tab.‍
• Improvements to the Victorian certificates experience.
• Maintenance and bug fixes for Permits.
• Bug fix for QLD road centrelines and Tas overlays.
• NSW Title page break bug fix.

Here’s what’s new in Landchecker early November 2023

• Bearings & Property Dimension unit toggle‍

Landchecker now shows bearings alongside property dimensions. Head over to the common layers and switch on property dimensions you will see you can now toggle on/off bearings and dimension units from metres to feet.

• NSW Bushfire

‍Bushfire prone area is now available in Landchecker. Head over to the left hand side layers panel and open the due diligence layer you will find here you can turn on/off NSW bushfire on the map. It's also available on the right hand side property information panel when selecting a property and in the Premium Property Reports.

• Vic property certificates bug fixes.
  • Adding security/order references (customers can now use team members order references)
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• Property Report bug fixes
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• Vic Scheme link bug fixes

Here’s what’s new in October 2023

• Add a security number or order number of previous title and plan purchases when ordering certificates so that you do not have to purchase the title and plan again.
• New certificates added this month include:
  • Heritage Certificate (Sec 58) - Heritage Victoria
  • National Trust Certificate - National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
  • Extract of Priority Sites Register - Environment Protection Authority
• Order manager date search is now inclusive of date selected.
• Status has been added to order manager export so to make it easier to reconcile orders by removing failed orders from the exported csv.