{"$schema":"https://nestpath.com.au/sources/data.json","name":"NestPath Source Corpus","description":"Every external source NestPath relies on to compute or state a fact, graded by a transparent trust tier. Tier 1 = primary government record; tier 2 = regulator/official guidance; tier 3 = private industry data used only to cross-check.","url":"https://nestpath.com.au/sources","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","publisher":{"name":"NestPath","url":"https://nestpath.com.au"},"sourceCount":18,"primaryGovernmentSourceCount":12,"tiers":[{"tier":1,"label":"Primary source","blurb":"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,"label":"Regulator & official guidance","blurb":"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,"label":"Industry data (cross-check only)","blurb":"Reputable private property-data providers. We use these to cross-check our government-derived medians (they agree within ~2%) — never as the sole basis for a figure shown to a buyer."}],"sources":[{"id":"nsw-valuer-general-psi","name":"NSW Valuer-General — Property Sales Information (bulk PSI)","url":"https://www.valuergeneral.nsw.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Property sales data","jurisdiction":"NSW","usedFor":"The ~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."},{"id":"revenue-nsw","name":"Revenue NSW","url":"https://www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Stamp duty & transfer duty","jurisdiction":"NSW","usedFor":"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."},{"id":"sro-vic","name":"State Revenue Office Victoria","url":"https://www.sro.vic.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Stamp duty & transfer duty","jurisdiction":"VIC","usedFor":"Victorian land-transfer duty rates and first-home-buyer duty concessions."},{"id":"qro-qld","name":"Queensland Revenue Office","url":"https://qro.qld.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Stamp duty & transfer duty","jurisdiction":"QLD","usedFor":"Queensland transfer duty rates, the first-home concession, and the first-home vacant-land concession."},{"id":"revenuewa","name":"RevenueWA","url":"https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-finance/revenuewa","tier":1,"category":"Stamp duty & transfer duty","jurisdiction":"WA","usedFor":"Western Australian transfer duty and the First Home Owner Rate of duty."},{"id":"revenuesa","name":"RevenueSA","url":"https://www.revenuesa.sa.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Stamp duty & transfer duty","jurisdiction":"SA","usedFor":"South Australian stamp duty rates and the first-home-buyer stamp-duty relief."},{"id":"act-revenue-office","name":"ACT Revenue Office","url":"https://www.revenue.act.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Stamp duty & transfer duty","jurisdiction":"ACT","usedFor":"ACT conveyance duty and the income-tested Home Buyer Concession Scheme (HBCS)."},{"id":"sro-tas","name":"State Revenue Office Tasmania","url":"https://www.sro.tas.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Stamp duty & transfer duty","jurisdiction":"TAS","usedFor":"Tasmanian property transfer duty and first-home-buyer duty concessions."},{"id":"nt-territory-revenue","name":"Territory Revenue Office (NT)","url":"https://nt.gov.au/property/home-owner-assistance","tier":1,"category":"Stamp duty & transfer duty","jurisdiction":"NT","usedFor":"Northern Territory stamp duty and home-owner assistance."},{"id":"housing-australia","name":"Housing Australia","url":"https://www.housingaustralia.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Grants & first-home schemes","jurisdiction":"Federal","usedFor":"The Home Guarantee Scheme — the First Home Guarantee (5% deposit, no LMI), Regional First Home Buyer Guarantee, and Family Home Guarantee — including property price caps and eligibility."},{"id":"ato","name":"Australian Taxation Office","url":"https://www.ato.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Grants & first-home schemes","jurisdiction":"Federal","usedFor":"The First Home Super Saver (FHSS) Scheme — contribution and release caps and eligibility rules."},{"id":"abs","name":"Australian Bureau of Statistics","url":"https://www.abs.gov.au/","tier":1,"category":"Official statistics","jurisdiction":"Federal","usedFor":"Lending indicators, dwelling-price indexes and household income context."},{"id":"moneysmart","name":"ASIC Moneysmart","url":"https://moneysmart.gov.au/","tier":2,"category":"Rates, lending & superannuation","jurisdiction":"Federal","usedFor":"The Government regulator’s consumer-finance guidance — definitions of LMI, offset accounts, comparison rates, and deposit basics that our explainers align to."},{"id":"rba","name":"Reserve Bank of Australia","url":"https://www.rba.gov.au/","tier":2,"category":"Rates, lending & superannuation","jurisdiction":"Federal","usedFor":"The official cash rate and monetary-policy context behind mortgage-rate movements."},{"id":"apra","name":"Australian Prudential Regulation Authority","url":"https://www.apra.gov.au/","tier":2,"category":"Rates, lending & superannuation","jurisdiction":"Federal","usedFor":"Serviceability-buffer and lending-standard rules that shape how much buyers can borrow."},{"id":"corelogic","name":"CoreLogic (Cotality)","url":"https://www.corelogic.com.au/","tier":3,"category":"Property sales data","jurisdiction":"National (private)","usedFor":"Cross-checking our government-derived suburb medians. CoreLogic’s figures agree with ours within ~2%."},{"id":"proptrack","name":"PropTrack (REA Group)","url":"https://www.proptrack.com.au/","tier":3,"category":"Property sales data","jurisdiction":"National (private)","usedFor":"A second independent cross-check on suburb-level price levels and growth."},{"id":"domain","name":"Domain","url":"https://www.domain.com.au/research/","tier":3,"category":"Property sales data","jurisdiction":"National (private)","usedFor":"A third cross-reference for suburb medians where coverage allows."}]}