Editorial standards

What Delora publishes

Delora publishes general property education and research for Australian home buyers and investors: guides, suburb profiles, worked examples and original data analysis. It is general information, not personal legal, tax, financial or credit advice, and every guide says which jurisdiction it covers. Where a rule differs by state, the page says which state it is describing rather than implying one state's rule applies everywhere.

Primary sources first

Every figure, threshold, rate or legal rule in a guide is meant to come from the body that sets it: an Act or regulation, a state revenue office, a regulator, or an official dataset. Delora fetches the source itself, stores the specific claim it supports with the source, the date it was retrieved and the date it was last checked, and the page reads the figure from that stored claim instead of having it typed into prose. Each figure links to its source. If an issuing body blocks automated fetching, the page says so instead of citing a copy. The full catalogue is in the knowledge base; the process is described on Method.

What “verified” and “data as at” mean

Verified and a date next to a citation is the date Delora last checked that claim against the cited source. A page that cites several claims also states the range of those dates, so the oldest check is visible, not only the newest. It is a statement about Delora's own check of a public source, not a statement that anyone has looked at your circumstances.

Data as at on a suburb figure is the date of the latest snapshot of the underlying dataset Delora holds (sales, rents, census, planning). It is never the date the site was built, and a figure whose dataset date is unknown is flagged by the site's build checks.

Claims have a review frequency. Sources are re-fetched on a schedule and a genuine change is flagged for a person to act on, not republished automatically. A claim that changes keeps its previous version, marked superseded with its date, on the relevant knowledge-base page.

Who writes Delora

Delora is published by Delora as an organisation. Guides and site code are drafted with AI assistance from sources Delora has fetched and registered, and each material claim is checked against its cited source before it is published. Delora does not attach a named expert, a reviewer byline or a professional credential to any page, because it does not have one to attach; the structured data on every page names Delora, the organisation, as author and publisher for the same reason.

Independence

Delora does not accept payment to feature, rank or omit any property, suburb, agent, lender or developer, and shows the same content and evidence to every reader. See About.

Machine-readable data

Pages carry schema.org structured data (Article, Dataset, FAQ and breadcrumb markup) that repeats what the page visibly says: an FAQ question in the markup appears on the page, a breadcrumb matches the page's place in the site, and a Dataset names its source and licence. Publication and modification dates come from the page's real history and are left out when that history is unknown. An article's markup lists the primary sources it cites, the same ones linked in its text. Delora never publishes rating or review markup. The build checks all of this on every regeneration and fails if a rule is broken. A plain-text map of the site for AI assistants and answer engines is at /llms.txt, and every sourced claim behind the guides can be downloaded, with its source and verified date, from the claims dataset.

Lines Delora holds

Corrections

A wrong figure, a mischaracterised rule or a broken calculation is corrected and logged on the corrections page with the date and what changed. Found something wrong? Tell us, ideally with the page and the source you are reading.