AboutPlain-English Australian property

Once you know what’s actually happening, you make better choices.

Property is the biggest financial decision most Australians ever make. Most of the people explaining it have something to sell. We wrote this site because that’s a problem. Sixty plain-English guides, every property calculator, suburb profiles for every suburb in Australia, and one vetted specialist when you’re ready. Education first. No sign-up, no agenda.

Why we exist

Australian property research is mostly written for the seller, not the buyer.

Most of what passes for property research in Australia is funded by the people selling you the property. The biggest portals are optimised for listings; the best data sits behind a paywall; the guides are gated by lead-capture forms.

We’re not against agents (we work with them, transparently). We’re against information being weaponised so you don’t know what you’re looking at when you bid, sign, or settle.

Your Property Guide is the tool we wish existed when our friends and family were buying their first home, or selling their last one, or trying to work out whether to upgrade. Free, current, sourced, and written so it actually answers the question.

Our charter

Four principles. Non-negotiable.

If we ever stop honouring any of these, hold us to them. Email andy@theandylife.com and tell us where we’ve drifted.

Education first

We answer the question, not push you to a form. The whole site is built around helping you make a confident decision.

Sourced and dated

Every figure is tagged with where it came from and when it was last refreshed. If anything looks off, tell us, we'll fix it within a week.

Free and ungated

No paywall, no sign-up, no email gate to read or use anything. Suburb data, calculators and guides are free, full stop.

Honest about money

Partner agents and brokers pay us only when matched work goes ahead. Disclosed on every match. We don't sell or trade your details.

How we make money

Buyers and sellers pay nothing. Ever.

When you’re ready to talk to a specialist, whether that’s an agent, broker, property accountant or conveyancer, we’ll match you with someone we’d use ourselves. They pay us a referral fee only when matched work goes ahead.

We disclose this on every match. We don’t sell your data. We don’t accept fees from anyone we wouldn’t use ourselves. And the data, guides, calculators and suburb profiles stay free regardless.

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Ownership & funding

Who owns Your Property Guide, and where the money comes from.

Your Property Guide is owned and operated by Profit Geeks Pty Ltd, an Australian-registered private company. We’re independently funded. No venture capital, no media-group ownership, no real estate franchise or aggregator behind the scenes.

100% of our revenue comes from referral fees paid by partner agents, brokers, conveyancers and accountants only when matched work goes ahead. No advertising. No paid placements in editorial. No fees from any party we wouldn’t recommend to our own family. Partner relationships are disclosed on every introduction and on every Best Deal listing.

Coverage & inclusivity

Who we write for, and how we decide what to publish.

We write for every Australian engaging with residential property. First home buyers, upgraders, downsizers, sellers, investors, renovators and renters. Every guide is tested for plain-English accessibility (no jargon left unexplained), and we’re explicit when advice differs by state, by age, by income, or by family situation.

Our editorial priorities are set by reader search demand (what Australians are actually looking up) and topic under-coverage in existing Australian property media (questions buyers ask their broker and don’t find published anywhere). Our editor reviews coverage gaps quarterly and commissions new guides against them.

The people

Real names, real bylines.

Every guide carries the byline of the person who wrote it and the name of the editor who reviewed it. No anonymous content, no AI slop dropped in unchecked.

Editor & co-founder

Andy McMaster

Editor & co-founder

Writes about

Editorial direction, methodology, scheme & policy commentary

Andy runs editorial at Your Property Guide. His background is in product and brand for Australian finance and property businesses, including building yourfinanceguide.com.au and several adjacent consumer-finance research sites. He commissions every guide on the site, edits the copy, and signs off before anything publishes.

Andy’s job is to keep the editorial line honest: education first, no pushy CTAs, every figure sourced and dated. If you spot something on the site that doesn’t meet that standard, his inbox is the right place to flag it.

Senior writer

Bec Ramirez

Property & finance writer

Writes about

Property tax, lending, investment strategy, federal & state policy

Bec is our senior writer on the tax, lending and investment side of property. She came to Your Property Guide from a mortgage broking background, where she spent several years walking first home buyers and seasoned investors through the mechanics of structuring, serviceability and tax-efficient ownership.

On the site she covers negative gearing, capital gains tax, depreciation, SMSF property, foreign buyer rules, and the federal and state policy changes that move the market. She’s the writer behind most of our budget coverage and the calculators that underpin it.

Her brief is to translate complex tax and lending detail into plain English without losing the nuance that actually changes the numbers on a deal.

Senior writer

Ellie Johnston

Market & suburb research

Writes about

Capital-city market updates, suburb profiles, state buying guides, regional research

Ellie leads our market and suburb research. Her background is in property data journalism, pulling apart Valuer-General releases, ABS data, and listing-portal aggregates to find the story behind the median.

She writes the capital-city market updates, state-by-state buying guides, regional research and most of the suburb profiles on the site. Every figure she publishes carries a source and an as-of date, and her drafts get reviewed by the editor before they go live.

Ellie’s priority is making sure the data on Your Property Guide is current, comparable, and useful, not just pretty.

Editorial methodology

How we write, source, and update.

Every guide goes through the same three steps: a named writer drafts against a published outline, a domain reviewer (broker, agent, accountant or conveyancer depending on topic) sanity-checks the technical claims, and the editor signs off on plain-English clarity. Drafts are not published until all three steps are complete and signed off.

Sources. Suburb data is sourced from state Valuer-General offices, ABS Census, Geoscience Australia, OpenStreetMap, the Bureau of Meteorology, ACARA, state police open data, and state planning portals. Every figure on a suburb page carries a tooltip showing the source and the as-of date. Guides cite primary sources (ATO rulings, state legislation, APRA/ASIC regulatory guidance, MFAA / HIA / Master Builders industry data) and never opinion blogs.

AI usage.We don’t publish AI-generated copy. AI may be used for research summarisation and outline drafting by the editor, but every word that ships through our site is written and edited by named humans.

Updates. Guides are reviewed at least annually, and immediately after any material law or scheme change (state budget changes, Home Guarantee Scheme rounds, RBA rate decisions, ATO determinations). Each guide shows the published date and the last-reviewed date in the byline.

Corrections & feedback

If something’s wrong, we want to know.

If you spot a factual error, a stale figure, or a number that doesn’t match its source, email andy@theandylife.com. The editor reads every correction request and we commit to:

Within 48 hours: acknowledgement of the report and an honest first read of whether we agree.
Within 7 days: a correction live on the page if we agree, or a written explanation if we don’t.
On the page: material corrections are noted in the guide footer with the date and a short description of what changed.
No retaliation: if you flag a correction we don’t end up making, we’ll still update the public last-reviewed date so other readers know the page has been re-checked.

For broader feedback, topics we should cover, gaps in our guides or suggestions for the data, use our contact form or email the editor directly.

The shorthand version

What you can count on.

No paywall. Every page is free, and stays that way. No login, no email gate.
No data resale. We don't sell or trade your details to anyone.
Disclosed matches. If a partner pays us, you'll see it on every introduction.
Vetted only. We don't take referrals from anyone we wouldn't use ourselves.