About SA Property Central

Who runs this site

SA Property Central is built and operated by Shobit Arora, based in Adelaide, South Australia. It's a single-operator project, not a venture-backed startup, not an agency, not a real estate group. One person, one inbox, one set of editorial calls.

Decisions about what to build next, what data to publish, and how to interpret the SA Planning and Design Code are made locally. There's no editorial board, no SEO content factory, and no commercial partnerships shaping which numbers get emphasised.

Why this site exists

Buying property in South Australia means making a six- or seven-figure decision against information you mostly can't see. The agent has the comparable sales database. The vendor has the Form 1 and the title. The council has the zone and overlay data. The bank has the serviceability calculation. The buyer, usually a couple, often first-time, has a price guide, a 40-page disclosure document, and three weekends to figure it out.

All of the information that matters is already public. It lives in the SA Valuer-General's open dataset, in PlanSA, on RevenueSA, in the SA Department for Education's catchment shapefiles. The work was simply to pull it together and present it as tools that answer the actual questions a buyer asks: is this price honest, what can I build here, what does it really cost, what does the bank actually lend, what's hiding in the Form 1, which school is it zoned for?

What "Adelaide-based" actually means

It means the SA quirks aren't an afterthought. SA's stamp duty brackets, the SA first-home concession phase-out, the SA Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 underquoting rules, the SA Planning and Design Code, the SA business-day calendar (Adelaide Cup Day, Proclamation Day), these are all modelled directly rather than translated from a NSW or Victorian template. The zone data is PlanSA's; the medians are the SA Valuer-General's; the brackets are RevenueSA's.

It also means real local fluency. A reference to "the Hills" means the Adelaide Hills, not the Blue Mountains. A reference to "the tram line" means the Glenelg line. The suburb guides reflect what you actually find buying into Norwood vs. Glenelg vs. Mt Barker, not boilerplate descriptions generated from a templating engine.

Editorial principles

• No invented planning numbers. Where the SA Planning and Design Code is TNV-driven, the tools show the TNV value or say there isn't one, they never fabricate a "plausible" minimum site area or setback.
• No paywalled data. Everything cited is an SA Government open dataset or a clearly attributed third-party calculation. Sources are listed on every tool.
• Honest about limits. If the site doesn't have data for an address, it says so. Regional SA isn't covered yet; the site is upfront about that.
• No biased math. The platform may host sponsored listings or agent profiles in the future (see our Terms of Use, section 9), but the tools' calculations will not be biased to favour any paying party. The tool output is independent of any commercial relationship.
• Plain English. No jargon without explanation. Technical terms link to the glossary.

What's next

The current site covers metropolitan Adelaide. Coverage of regional SA, Murray Bridge, Victor Harbor, Mt Gambier, Whyalla, the Yorke and Eyre peninsulas, is on the roadmap as the underlying datasets allow. Tool-side, the priorities are sharper Form 1 interpretation, more suburb guides, and (later) a way for buyers to pull together a single decision file across all the tools.

Get in touch

If you've spotted an error, want to suggest a feature, or have feedback on a tool output, please use the contact form. Messages go straight to a real inbox, not a ticketing system, not a chatbot. I read every one personally, though it can take a few days during busy weeks.

For media or partnership enquiries, the same form works, just mention the context in your message.