Coverage
What we check, city by city
PropertyKete does not hold the same data everywhere. An Auckland report runs more checks than a Wellington or Christchurch one, because Auckland Council publishes hazard and planning data we can use and other councils currently do not.
That difference is invisible inside a report unless we say it out loud. A check we never run produces no finding, and a short report can look like a short risk list. These pages are the correction: for each city, exactly what runs, what returns no result, and what is not checked anywhere in New Zealand.
Three different things, easy to confuse
- Checked — data held
- We run this check and hold the data for this city. Your report will show a result — which may be that nothing was detected at your address.
- Checked — no data for this city
- The check exists, but we hold no data covering this city. Your report states that the check did not run. It is not a clean result.
- Not checked anywhere
- This is not part of a PropertyKete report for any address, in any city. No finding will ever appear, whatever the ground is doing.
- And on your own report: “not detected”
- A check in the first group can come back with nothing found at your address. That means the layer was searched and your property is not in it — which is a real result, and a different thing from a check that never ran. Models have edges and dates; being outside a mapped area is not a guarantee.
The one that costs people money is reading “not checked” as “not found”. Our reports label the difference on every finding, and the city pages list it so you can see it before you search.
Auckland
Auckland is where PropertyKete holds the most data: thirteen checks return a result here. Six council hazard layers and the Auckland Unitary Plan run in Auckland and nowhere else. That still leaves real gaps — five checks are not run anywhere in New Zealand — and they are listed on this page alongside what does run.
13 checks with data held · 1 with no data for this city · 5 not checked anywhere
See Aucklandcoverage →Wellington
Six checks return data for a Wellington address today. Every Auckland council hazard layer and the district plan zoning check return no result here — and the report says so rather than showing a clean page. This matters more in Wellington than almost anywhere, because the checks we are missing are the ones the city is known for.
6 checks with data held · 6 with no data for this city · 5 not checked anywhere
See Wellingtoncoverage →Christchurch
Six checks return data for a Christchurch address today. PropertyKete does not check liquefaction — anywhere, for any address. In Christchurch that gap is significant enough that it belongs at the top of the page rather than in a footnote.
6 checks with data held · 6 with no data for this city · 5 not checked anywhere
See Christchurchcoverage →Nothing here is a substitute for a LIM
A PropertyKete report brings public data together and explains it. It is not a LIM, a valuation, a building report, or legal or engineering advice, and it does not become one in the city where we happen to hold the most data. See every dataset we hold, or read how to research a property before buying — what to check at each stage, and who to ask.