RESEARCH · BIG DATA IN PROPERTY PLANNING

Turning property data
into planning intelligence.

Australia generates enormous amounts of property and planning data every day. Our research connects it into better investment, planning and development decisions.

Property decisions are still made
with fragmented information.

Planning rules, zoning, overlays, sales history, development applications, infrastructure, demographics and construction costs live in dozens of independent sources. Developers assemble them by hand before a decision can be made, which slows the decision and raises the risk.

Construction data is abundant.
Decision-ready information is not.

The challenge is not collecting more data. It is integrating heterogeneous datasets, maintaining data quality, finding the relationships that matter and presenting evidence in a form a practical development decision can use.

What we're working on.

We combine public datasets, planning information and operational evidence to explore new approaches to development intelligence.

• Planning data integration: Connecting planning rules, zoning and overlays at scale.
• Development application analytics: Patterns and timelines mined from DA records.
• Housing supply intelligence: From approvals to completions, measured continuously.
• Spatial data analysis: Location as a first-class input to every question.
• Property market analytics: Values, demand and momentum from verified records.
• Planning rule interpretation: Making planning codes machine-readable.
• AI-assisted feasibility: Models that read a site the way an analyst would.

What this could change.

Better planning begins with better information.

• Evaluate development opportunities earlier
• Improve planning decisions
• Reduce feasibility uncertainty
• Understand housing supply better
• Support evidence-based investment

Where this research connects.

This research direction is not standalone. Its findings ship into running Cyberate capability, and its methods draw on the rest of the practice.

• Feasibility & Site Intelligence: Planning, zoning and market data assembled into decision-ready site intelligence.
• Feasibility Intelligence Agent: AI-assisted reads of site potential, grounded in this data research.
• Industry Reports: Housing supply and planning findings, published through the RESI Knowledge Hub.
• Public Data Intelligence: The sister research direction: open sources, read responsibly.
• Immersive Design Review: VR and AR applied to design decisions before they reach site.

Let's research it together.

Universities, developers, builders, government agencies and industry organisations: we welcome research partnerships that improve how Australia's residential construction industry plans, builds and innovates.

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