Delora

Research

Delora's original investigations and data analysis — separate from the buying and investing guides. Research applies Delora's method to a current question; it doesn't replace the education.

Market research

Our fair-value model's track record

A public backtest of Delora's suburb fair-value model against real subsequent sale prices — wins, misses and all.

Why online property estimates never agree

What actually generates a realestate.com.au, Domain or CoreLogic estimate, how wide the gap between them can get, and how much to trust any of them — ours included.

Australian property data tools, compared

CoreLogic/Cotality, HtAG, PriceFinder and the free options, honestly compared — what each actually gives you, what's genuinely independent, and where Delora fits.

Title insurance: what it actually covers

What title insurance covers, what it doesn't, what it costs, and why it's a backstop to due diligence, not a substitute for it.

Melbourne's most undervalued suburbs

Suburbs with the largest gap between observed prices and Delora's modelled fundamentals — modelled market context, not a recommendation.

Undervalued bargain or value trap?

How to tell a genuine pricing gap from a suburb with a structural reason to be cheap.

What actually drives Melbourne house prices

The suburb-level factors correlated with price, and their limits as predictors.

Did your suburb's apartments beat inflation?

A decade of unit prices vs rents across 134 suburbs, and what it implies for yield.

Highest rental yield suburbs in Melbourne

147 suburbs ranked by gross rental yield, from Cranbourne's 4.2% to Toorak's 0.5%.

Heritage-overlay suburbs: the premium for period character

Which heritage-overlay suburbs trade above modelled fundamentals, and by how much.

Planning and zoning

Housing supply

Affordability

Delora's models show suburb-level modelled market context, not a valuation of any individual property, an investment recommendation or a guarantee of future performance.

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