Researching locations
Build your location brief
Turn your commute, school and service requirements into a document you can use to discover and shortlist suburbs.
- A location brief covers destinations, travel thresholds, schools, services, open space and environmental risk tolerance.
- It can import your safe budget and property-type brief with your explicit consent, reading only your own browser's saved data.
- Written requirements are easier to compare against real suburbs than a mental checklist.
What a location brief should cover
A location brief documents the geographic side of your search: important destinations and how long you're prepared to travel to them, the transport modes you'd actually use, school requirements, essential services, open-space needs, your tolerance for environmental risk, and the neighbourhood characteristics that matter to you — separate from the property-type brief you may have already built.
Building on what you've already decided
If you've already worked through your safe budget or your property-type buying brief, the location brief tool can import those — with your explicit click, reading only what's already saved in your own browser, never sent anywhere — so you're not re-entering the same numbers a third time.
Practical checklist
Building your location brief
- List your two or three most important regular destinations
- Decide your maximum acceptable commute and preferred transport mode
- Note any school, service or environmental-risk requirements