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The numbers everyone quotes are the wrong ones.

A suburb median blends streets moving in opposite directions, and an asking price is a hope, not a value. See the number that actually holds up. Type a suburb or address. Or ask a question.

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Luke Metcalfe
Luke Metcalfe
Founder, Microburbs. 25 years of Australian property data.
Two numbers, one bad decision

Almost every property decision starts with the wrong two numbers.

The suburb median and the asking price. They are the easiest numbers in the country to find, and neither of them answers the question you are actually asking. One describes a whole suburb instead of the home in front of you. The other describes what a seller wants instead of what a home is worth.

The suburb median

A suburb is not one market. Streets inside the same suburb move in opposite directions, and the median blends them into a single number that describes none of them. Homes on the same street move together 96% of the time. Across a whole suburb it is 61%.

See the street research →

The asking price

An asking price is a hope. A seller and their agent set it before the market has answered, and nothing tests it until someone pays. It is a starting position, not a value, and it is the number most buyers anchor to anyway.

See what a tested valuation looks like →

The proof

The wider the area, the less the number means.

We measured how often homes at each level move the same direction. A national figure agrees with the home in front of you 13% of the time. A suburb median, 61%. Only at street level does the number describe the thing you are buying.

National
13%
State
36%
Suburb
61%
Street
96%

Price agreement: how often homes at each level move the same direction. Street-level patterns explain 96% of price moves, far more than the suburb average. Read the paper →

Look at it

One median. Dozens of different markets underneath it.

This is one suburb, broken into microburbs and coloured by what homes actually sell for. Every block inside the outline carries the same suburb name, and the same suburb median. The median is the average of all of them, which makes it the right answer for none of them.

Map of Bondi broken into microburbs, each coloured by its own median sale price, with neighbouring suburbs shaded at suburb level
Bondi, split into microburbs and coloured by median sale price. The small blocks inside the outlined suburb are microburbs. The larger flat areas around it are neighbouring suburbs, shaded at suburb level. Open the Bondi report and read it yourself, free.
What we put in its place

A number you can check, and the research behind it.

We do not ask you to take a better number on faith. Each one below has a published paper behind it, tested against sales that already happened, and you can read the lot.

Instead of the asking price
87%

Our valuation lands within 10% of the eventual sale price about 87% of the time, tested on 182,517 homes under $800,000 that sold between 2020 and 2025. Read the research.

Instead of a guess at what is comparable
30 features

Comparable sales matched on 30 features, not just the bedroom count. That is what makes a valuation about this home rather than about the suburb. See the method.

Instead of the suburb median
7% a yr

Top-ranked streets beat the wider market by about 7% a year (2014-2026), and our suburb forecasts score a 79% hit rate across 876,000 past calls over 12 years. Street research · Suburb forecasts.

Built on everything, not one feed

353,728 streets and 14,069 suburbs, from 25 years of Australian sales and 100+ data sources. Sixteen measured risks per suburb sit alongside the price, because the things that drag a street down are not in any median either.

Browse the suburb reports →

Tested in the open, including against the bots

Every claim on this page has a paper behind it, and we publish the ones that put our own work on the line. How our street forecasts compare with the general AI models, head to head.

Forecasting vs AI →   All published research →

Hidden prices

About 1 in 3 listings hide the price. We show it anyway.

A price is withheld to make you enquire, which leaves you negotiating without the one number the other side already has. We work it out and show it, so you already know the number before you enquire.

How we find themSee a free property report

Stop deciding on the suburb average.

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“What I was missing with so many things was street level data.”— Neil Casey, Buyers Agent
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Two jobs, two tools

A valuation prices a property. A forecast predicts a street or suburb.

They answer different questions, so we keep them separate. One tells you what a home is worth today. The other tells you where a street or suburb is heading.

Valuation, for a property

What this specific home is worth right now. Within 10% of the eventual sale price about 87% of the time, tested on 182,517 homes under $800,000 that sold between 2020 and 2025.

How the valuation works →   Comparable sales →

Forecast, for a street or suburb

Where values are heading next. Street-level patterns explain 96% of price moves, and our suburb forecasts score a 79% hit rate across 876,000 past calls over 12 years.

Street research →   Suburb forecasts →

Open research

We publish a paper to back every claim.

Since 2014 we have tested what actually drives Australian property growth, then built each finding into the platform. Every number on this page has a paper behind it, and you can read the lot.

View all published research →

Why street level

Homes on the same street move together 96% of the time.

National
13%
State
36%
Suburb
61%
Street
96%

Price agreement: how often homes at each level move the same direction. The suburb average hides it. Read the paper →

2B+
Data points
14,069
Suburbs
100+
Data sources
353,728
Streets forecast
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In their words

What investors and agents actually say.

Direct quotes from customers on how they use the platform. Real names, real desks.

Replaces multiple subscriptions

This is what I was trying to do, get to a point where we use one tool rather than four. And that is great.

Scott AggettScott AggettBuyers Agent
Street-level precision

What I was missing with so many things was street level data.

Neil CaseyNeil CaseyBuyers Agent
Valuation accuracy

The valuation is amazing. CoreLogic sits around 13% out, yours is around 6%.

NSNilesh ShuklaInvestor
Decision confidence

It gives our clients so much certainty. Independent data, quantified, and real peace of mind.

Tabitha BrightTabitha BrightBuyers Agent
All in one place

So much better than leaning on multiple websites for public housing, flood zones and the rest.

DPDharmendra PatelInvestor
Nobody else forecasts

The projection, the prediction thing is really, really good, which no other tool does that.

HMHarshit MathurBuyers Agent, Empowered Buyers
A competitive edge

I do think it is going to give me an edge, the kind of detail that makes me stand out.

Darren CooperDarren CooperSelling Agent