GOVERNMENT TOOLS

Housing Monitor

Monitor evolving housing needs

Understand your housing landscape and plan for affordable, appropriate housing. Housing Monitor helps you influence and advocate for your community’s housing needs through a comprehensive analysis of housing supply, demand and affordability in your LGA. By making complex housing data easy to interpret, Housing Monitor helps you develop effective housing policies and engage stakeholders.

Housing Monitor

We work with councils around Australia

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Housing insights for advocates and decision makers

Get a complete picture of local housing pressures by combining sales and rental data, rental vacancy rates, demographics and incomes, housing stress, need for affordable housing, forecasts, building approvals and more in one place.

Housing insights for advocates and decision makers

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Local affordable housing insights

See affordability of different sized homes for those in different household situations, and how this is changing. Understand how and where housing stress is affecting residents. 

Local affordable housing insights

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Current market data

Sales and rental data is sourced from our partners at PropTrack and is regularly updated to accurately reflect the current market.

Current market data

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Spatial insights

Key housing trends including housing stress and building approvals are brought to life through clear, interactive maps.

Spatial insights

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Development Pipeline Monitoring

Integrates real-time sales and rental data with demographic trends and dwelling approvals to forecast housing supply gaps. 

Development Pipeline Monitoring

6mo

Housing Monitor market data is updated every 6 months

300+

Over 250 councils around Australia use .id government tools to make informed decisions

Wider audience access

Housing Monitor can be accessed by council, developers and community groups, ensuring everyone is able to work from the same evidence base

Get a complete view with spatial intelligence

For expert insights into demographics, population change, economics, resourcing, housing and community sentiment, use our tools in combination to get a complete view of place

Included topics

Explore evolving housing needs and key influences

Explore evolving housing needs and key influences

Benefits

Easy, accurate and insightful data

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Inform housing strategy

Housing Monitor gives you the evidence to develop more informed housing strategy by understanding the local demographic and economic factors of local housing supply and demand.

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Build partnerships and attract investment

Get council, community housing providers and developers on the same page using a trusted online evidence-base everyone can access.

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Plan for appropriate housing

Highlight mismatches between housing supply and the characteristics of current and future forecast residents to ensure housing provided is suitable for your community.

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More cost‑effective

A Housing Monitor subscription costs significantly less than the average housing study, and is more cost-effective than doing analysis internally.

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Direct support from .id

Your subscription gives you direct access to support from the demographic experts behind the tools, from training to ad-hoc advice.

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Monitored and updated regularly

Unlike consultant housing studies, Housing Monitor data is updated every 6 months, so you can monitor and respond to changing affordability trends and the real-world impacts of housing strategies.

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Localised insights

Housing Monitor enables councils to accurately target resources and effort to the right communities by providing more datasets at a sub-LGA level.

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Advocate with evidence

We have extensive experience building evidence bases that local governments can rely on to advocate to state government and other agencies.

Housing Monitor FAQs

First, discuss your needs with our housing experts. We’ll help you get set up with the right tools that serve your needs.
Then we’ll get your site live and let you know when it’s ready to use. We’ll organise training to help you and your team get the most out of it.

Ongoing, we provide updates, support and training as necessary.
Contact us to get started.

Ready to get started?

Set up your council on Housing Monitor

If you’re interested in taking the next step, get in touch to find out how Housing Monitor can help you manage and plan for housing needs. 

Use this form or reach out by phone or email.

Call us: 03 9417 2205
Email: info@id.com.au

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