Shortlisting last-mile depot sites in Sydney
A published agent run. One prompt narrows NSW industrial land to 145 eligible lots, then to a ranked top 20 by drive-time catchment, with the map, the code and the gaps left in.
Industries
Property and development
For acquisition and feasibility teams screening many sites at once. Zoning, flood planning areas, TOD precincts, constraints and sales history joined to the parcel, at LGA or portfolio scale.
Acquisition teams have the data. They cannot ask one question across all of it. Zoning is in the planning portal, flood is in a council map, sales are in a subscription tool, transit is in a timetable, and the aerial is in another tool. Joining them for one site takes about ten minutes. Joining them for four hundred sites takes about a fortnight, so it is not done.
Where this fits
The per-lot lookup market is well served. Zoned, Archistar and the incumbents produce the single-site report. The unserved question comes before that: given criteria, which parcels in this region are worth a report.
That is a query, and the criteria are whatever the current acquisition brief contains, not a fixed set of filters.
Across the Central Coast LGA, list every parcel over 2,000 square metres zoned R2 or R3, outside the flood planning area, with slope under 10 degrees, that has not traded in ten years.
| Stage | Parcels remaining |
|---|---|
| Zoned R2 or R3 | 11,482 |
| Over 2,000 m² | 604 |
| Outside flood planning area | 431 |
| Slope under 10 degrees | 288 |
| No sale in ten years | 67 |
cadastreland_zoningland_constraintsproperty_salesterraing_nafThe counts above illustrate the shape of the output. They are not a published finding about that council. The funnel matters as much as the shortlist. When a brief returns nothing, the funnel shows which criterion removed the candidates, so the investment committee can be told that the flood layer removed two thirds of the market rather than that nothing was found.
A published run
One brief of this kind is published in full, with its funnel: an industrial depot search that produced 145 eligible lots, 115 of them past the catchment threshold, and a ranked top twenty with lot, plan and last sale. It also shows what the run could not answer. Shortlisting last-mile depot sites in Sydney.
Who uses it
Site acquisition managers running a pipeline across several councils. Development and feasibility analysts who need market context for an LGA rather than a lot. Buyers agents screening for clients against a written brief. Town planners and valuers who need the constraint picture assembled once instead of per job.
What is connected
Cadastral parcels and G-NAF addresses form the spine. Joined to them: NSW land zoning, flood planning areas and land constraint layers, transport-oriented development precincts, transit stops, the road network, aircraft noise contours, Valuer General sales history, terrain from the national elevation model, and the hazard stack of bushfire prone land, flood extents, coastal change and heat.
Development application activity from the NSW online DA service and ABS building approvals by LGA are being connected now. Victorian and Queensland zoning follow. The addresses, transit, terrain and hazard layers they attach to are already national or multi-state. Cadastre and roads are NSW today.
Due diligence
A portfolio due diligence pack is the same joins applied to sites you already hold: hazard exposure per asset, constraint overlays, sales comparables, and the physical climate risk assessment that a lender or an AASB S2 reporting parent will ask for.
Frequently asked
We already pay for a per-site data tool. Why add this?
Keep it. Per-site tools answer questions about a site you have already found. This answers which sites to look at, across an LGA or an acquisition pipeline, using criteria you define. Teams that screen at scale usually need both.
How current is the sales data?
Valuer General sales are refreshed on the publisher's cycle, and every output records the vintage of the extract it used. Where a parcel has no recorded sale, that is reported as no record rather than left blank.
Can it handle lot and plan input rather than addresses?
Yes. Lot and plan resolves directly against cadastre. Street addresses go through G-NAF first. Mixed input in one file is accepted, and anything that fails to resolve comes back as a list to fix rather than being dropped.
Related
examples solutions Development site screening
Screen dozens or hundreds of sites at once against zoning, flood planning areas, TOD precincts, sales history and constraint layers, instead of running one-lot lookups by hand.
solutions Physical climate risk assessment
Asset-level physical climate risk screening across flood, bushfire, coastal recession and extreme heat, using Australian open hazard data and CMIP6 scenarios.
data G-NAF — Geocoded National Address File
Australia's authoritative address file, used as the entry point to the land spine. Coverage, update cadence, licence and the queries the agent runs against it.
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