18 graded sources12 primary government records

Our sources, graded by trust

Here is every external source we rely on to compute or state a fact, all 18 of them, graded by how authoritative each one is. The rule we hold ourselves to: every dollar figure on NestPath traces back to a primary government record. Private data providers are used only to cross-check, never as the sole basis for a number we show a first home buyer.

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The whole list is downloadable as open JSON under CC BY 4.0, so you (or an AI assistant) can reuse it with attribution. Last reviewed 1 June 2026.

How we grade a source

Tier 1
Primary source

The authoritative record itself: the government department or official data file that sets or publishes the fact. Every dollar figure on NestPath traces back to a tier-1 source.

Tier 2
Regulator & official guidance

Australian regulators and official consumer-guidance bodies. We use these for definitions, lending standards, and consumer-protection context, not for the underlying numbers.

Tier 3
Industry data (cross-check only)

Reputable private property-data providers. We use these to cross-check our government-derived medians (they agree within about 2%), never as the sole basis for a figure shown to a buyer.

Tier 1 Primary source

The roughly 2.2-million-record file of every property sale registered in NSW. We compute our suburb medians and price-growth figures directly from it via an open pipeline, the first-party basis for the affordability pages and the Deposit Treadmill research.

Revenue NSWNSW · Stamp duty & transfer duty

The official NSW transfer-duty (stamp duty) scale and the First Home Buyers Assistance Scheme (FHBAS) exemption and concession thresholds. Our stamp-duty calculator is built directly from this scale.

State Revenue Office VictoriaVIC · Stamp duty & transfer duty

Victorian land-transfer duty rates and first-home-buyer duty concessions.

Queensland Revenue OfficeQLD · Stamp duty & transfer duty

Queensland transfer duty rates, the first-home concession, and the first-home vacant-land concession.

RevenueWAWA · Stamp duty & transfer duty

Western Australian transfer duty and the First Home Owner Rate of duty.

RevenueSASA · Stamp duty & transfer duty

South Australian stamp duty rates and the first-home-buyer stamp-duty relief.

ACT Revenue OfficeACT · Stamp duty & transfer duty

ACT conveyance duty and the income-tested Home Buyer Concession Scheme (HBCS).

State Revenue Office TasmaniaTAS · Stamp duty & transfer duty

Tasmanian property transfer duty and first-home-buyer duty concessions.

Territory Revenue Office (NT)NT · Stamp duty & transfer duty

Northern Territory stamp duty and home-owner assistance.

Housing AustraliaFederal · Grants & first-home schemes

The Australian Government 5% Deposit Scheme (formerly the Home Guarantee Scheme): the First Home Buyer Guarantee 5% deposit stream, the merged Regional First Home Buyer Guarantee, and the Family Home Guarantee 2% stream for single parents, including property price caps and eligibility.

Australian Taxation OfficeFederal · Grants & first-home schemes

The First Home Super Saver (FHSS) Scheme: contribution and release caps and eligibility rules.

Australian Bureau of StatisticsFederal · Official statistics

Lending indicators, dwelling-price indexes and household income context.

Tier 2 Regulator & official guidance

ASIC MoneysmartFederal · Rates, lending & superannuation

The Government regulator’s consumer-finance guidance: definitions of LMI, offset accounts, comparison rates, and deposit basics that our explainers align to.

Reserve Bank of AustraliaFederal · Rates, lending & superannuation

The official cash rate and monetary-policy context behind mortgage-rate movements.

Australian Prudential Regulation AuthorityFederal · Rates, lending & superannuation

Serviceability-buffer and lending-standard rules that shape how much buyers can borrow.

Tier 3 Industry data (cross-check only)

CoreLogic (Cotality)National (private) · Property sales data

Cross-checking our government-derived suburb medians. CoreLogic’s figures agree with ours within about 2%.

PropTrack (REA Group)National (private) · Property sales data

A second independent cross-check on suburb-level price levels and growth.

DomainNational (private) · Property sales data

A third cross-reference for suburb medians where coverage allows.

Why this page exists

Most consumer-finance sites tell you a number without telling you where it came from. We think you should be able to check our working. This is the same idea behind the open government-data pipeline behind our suburb affordability pages and our public first-home-buyer data API: we publish the inputs so you can verify the output.