Archistar alternatives: what else reads a site in Australia
Archistar is subscription software for finding and testing development sites. It suits a team running many sites a month. If you have one property and want to know what the documents say about it, a per-property report is a different purchase. This page compares the options by what each one does, using each product's own description of itself.
What each one is
Property Jeanie
Property Jeanie is an ordered report on one property. It reads the title, the deposited plan, the instruments registered against the land and the council controls that apply, and returns what those documents say about what can be built. Every planning figure in a Property Jeanie report is quoted from the document it was read from. Where a figure is not held, the report says so rather than substituting a typical or state-wide value, and a person checks the plan reading before the report is released. Coverage is New South Wales and Victoria.
Archistar
Site-discovery and feasibility software, sold by subscription to developers, builders and planners.
Archistar describes itself on its home page as a "Property Research Platform". Source, read 2026-09-28.
Landchecker
Mapping and property-data subscription. Strong for looking things up yourself across multiple states.
Landchecker's home page titles itself "Property Data & Land Data Online Australia". Source, read 2026-09-28.
canibuild
Built for volume residential builders placing a known house design on a lot.
canibuild describes itself as "Site planning software allowing residential builders to determine site suitability, position and price point for any build remotely." Source, read 2026-09-28.
NSW Planning Portal and Service NSW
The primary source, free, and the thing every paid product is reading from. It will not read your title documents or your council's controls for you.
The NSW Government publishes zoning and planning-layer data free through the Planning Portal spatial viewer, and title and property information through Service NSW. Source, read 2026-09-28.
Questions people ask
What are the alternatives to Archistar in Australia?
Property Jeanie, Landchecker and canibuild are the Australian alternatives most often considered alongside Archistar, and the NSW Planning Portal publishes much of the underlying data free. Property Jeanie is a per-property report for New South Wales and Victoria that quotes every planning figure from the source document. Landchecker is a mapping and property-data subscription. canibuild is site-planning software for residential builders. Archistar is a subscription property-research platform.
Do I need a subscription to check one property?
No. A subscription suits someone assessing sites continuously. For a single property, Property Jeanie sells one report on that property, and the NSW Planning Portal and Service NSW let you look up zoning and title information yourself at no cost.
Which tools cover Victoria as well as New South Wales?
Property Jeanie covers New South Wales and Victoria. Landchecker covers multiple states. Zoning NSW Reports is New South Wales only. Check current coverage with each provider before buying.
How this page was put together
Each product above is described using wording published on its own website, read on the date shown against it. Where a product does not publish its pricing in a form that can be read from its site, no pricing is stated here. Property Jeanie publishes this page, which is why it appears first.
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Check a specific property
Property Jeanie reports on one address in New South Wales or Victoria, with every planning figure quoted from the document it was read from.
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