Researching locations
Find locations that fit your real life — not a generic suburb ranking.
Use your budget, property brief, travel needs and priorities to discover possible areas, understand their trade-offs, and build a shortlist you can verify yourself. Delora never names a "best suburb".
The location-research framework
Each stage opens a complete guide.
Understanding location evidence
How to research a location
Broad area before suburb, suburb before street, street before property — why evidence gets more specific as you narrow in.
Build your location brief
Turn your commute, school and service requirements into a document you can use to shortlist suburbs.
Understanding median prices
What a suburb median actually tells you, how it's calculated, and why sales volume matters as much as the number itself.
Commute and transport
Scheduled versus actual travel time, stop points versus stations, and why peak-hour testing beats a straight-line distance.
Schools and school zones
Why a school being in the suburb doesn't mean your address is zoned for it — and how to check the one that matters.
Planning and development
Zones, overlays, amendments and the difference between a proposal, an approval and a completed project.
Environmental risks
Flood, bushfire and contaminated land are genuinely different risks with different official sources — not one score.
Demographics and community
What Census data describes about who lives somewhere now — and what it can't tell you about whether you'd fit.
Recorded crime
Why a council-wide rate isn't a street-level safety verdict, and what "recorded" crime does and doesn't capture.
Visiting and verifying a suburb
A structured field guide — what to check in person, and what only an exact address can confirm.
Tools
Location brief builder
Document destinations, travel thresholds, school and service needs — with real consent-based import from your financial plan and buying brief.
Suburb comparison
Compare up to five suburbs on price, rent, dwelling mix, transport, overlays and demographics — no suburb declared the winner.
Suburb visit workbook
A structured record for what you actually observed — noise, traffic, parking, services — on a real visit.
Location shortlist
Track why each suburb stayed on your list, your concerns, and what still needs address-level verification.