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Automated suburb-level property alert engine for Australian buyers that combines listing velocity, price-drop signals, and days-on-market trends into a weekly decision digest instead of raw data

Australian property is hyper-local and buyers make six-figure decisions with almost no structured signal beyond vibes and Rightmove clones

Built for Real estate agents, property investors, and wholesalers in Australia who need to track and monitor new listings across multiple suburbs for lead generation or market analysis..

The angle

Realestate.com.au alerts are noisy and generic so winning means being the opinionated analyst layer on top, not just another scraper

“Jun 9, 2026 · Google Sheets tool that automatically tracks new property listings from realestate.com.au across a set of specified suburbs.…”

The receipts — real demand

“Jun 9, 2026 · Google Sheets tool that automatically tracks new property listings from realestate.com.au across a set of specified suburbs.”

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4 / 10 · idea quality

demand score 6.4 — the receipts are below

Pain 8

Willingness to pay 6

Specificity 9

Audience 7

Competition 6

Why this is a gap

Surfaced from a high-intensity complaint with clear willingness to pay and a specific, reachable audience.

The market

Australian real estate agents, investors, and wholesalers need to monitor new listings across multiple suburbs for lead generation. Demand signal is unclear without search volume, but the pain point (manual Google Sheets tracking) suggests an active, frustrated user base doing this work today.

Competition & the opening

Wedge play crowded — win on a narrow angle Moat 3/10 · thin angle Market 6/10 · a real vertical

Crowded market · 6/10 vs PropTrack (REA Group) — suburb-level market trends, price indices, days-on-market data delivered via agent and consumer dashboardsDomain Insights / Domain Home Price Guide — suburb trend reports, listing velocity, price history for Australian buyersCoreLogic RP Data — professional-grade suburb analytics including vendor discounting rates, days-on-market, listing counts (sold to buyers via Suburb Dashboard)SQM Research — weekly Australian housing market data including listing volumes, asking price trends, vacancy rates by suburbSuburbtrends (Kent Lardner) — paid suburb-level analytics reports combining multiple signals for investors and buyers agentsHomely / OnTheHouse suburb profiles — aggregated suburb stats surfaced to buyers at point of search

realestate.com.au alerts, Domain.com.au notifications, and generic property portals offer listing feeds but don't automate cross-suburb monitoring into a single tracking tool. The gap is in consolidated, automated monitoring without manual checking.

What's hard to build

Building reliable scraping or API access to realestate.com.au is the core blocker; the platform does not publish a public API and actively resists scraping. Maintaining scraper stability as the site updates, plus legal/ToS risk, makes this technically and operationally fragile.

Why now

Australian real estate market has high velocity listings and no native Sheets integration exists for realestate.com.au.

How you'd monetize

$19/mo SaaS + premium suburb count tiers

Automated suburb-level property alert engine for Australian buyers that combines listing velocity, price-drop signals, and days-on-market trends into a weekly decision digest instead of raw data

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