What a property gained, or lost, since it last soldClosing the information gap
The largest financial decision most people make, and the numbers that would inform them sit with the people selling — withheld, released late, in pieces, or not until settlement. Every sold listing here is matched against the price that property last changed hands for.
Sale prices go undisclosed. Auction results are buried. You end up assembling the market from scraps, never quite sure what is fair or which way it is moving — while everyone on the other side of the table knows exactly.
What it made. How long that took. What that comes to a year — before stamp duty, agent fees or inflation. No forecasts, no sentiment, no contact agent — just the record, and the same numbers the other side has.
The index is built the way Case-Shiller is — properties compared against themselves, so a shift in what happens to be selling never masquerades as a change in price. It is published with its confidence band, and periods too thin to trust are marked rather than drawn as fact. How it is built →