Coverage · Auckland
What PropertyKete checks in 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.
How to read the table below
- Checked — data held — the check runs for Auckland and your report shows a result.
- Checked — no data for this city — the check exists but we hold nothing here, and the report says so. Not a clean result.
- Not checked anywhere — not part of a PropertyKete report for any address, in any city.
Reading “not checked” as “not found” is the mistake that costs people money. The full explanation, including what “not detected” means on your own report.
The Auckland coverage matrix
13 checks with data held · 1 with no data for Auckland · 5 not checked anywhere. Territorial authority: Auckland.
| Check | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Flood plain (1% AEP)Tests whether any part of the parcel intersects the modelled 1% annual-exceedance-probability flood plain. Being inside it does not mean the house has flooded or will; being outside it does not mean water has never reached the property. | Checked — data held | Auckland Council (dataset updated January 2025) |
| Overland flow pathModelled routes surface water takes in heavy rain. A flow path crossing a section constrains where you can build more often than it floods a house. | Checked — data held | Auckland Council (dataset updated January 2025) |
| Coastal inundation (1% AEP, current sea level)Modelled coastal flooding at today’s sea level, for the Auckland coastal region. | Checked — data held | Auckland Council (January 2025) |
| Coastal inundation (1% AEP, +1 m sea-level rise)The same modelling under one metre of sea-level rise. It is a scenario, not a forecast, and it carries no date by which that rise occurs. | Checked — data held | Auckland Council (January 2025) |
| Shallow landslide susceptibilityA regional susceptibility model. Moderate results are shown as screening indicators with reduced weight; high and very high are treated as material. Susceptibility describes ground conditions across an area — it is not a prediction about one slope. | Checked — data held | Auckland Council technical report TR2025/7 (May 2025) |
| Large-scale landslide susceptibilityThe same modelling for larger, deeper failures, with the same screening and material split. | Checked — data held | Auckland Council technical report TR2025/7 (May 2025) |
| Active fault proximityRuns for every New Zealand address and is always shown in the free preview. It reports whether a mapped active fault trace lies within 500 metres, from GNS Science mapping compiled at 1:250,000 — a national screening scale, not a site survey. It does not give a distance in metres, because the dataset is not precise enough to place a fault within an individual property. | Checked — data held | GNS Science, New Zealand Active Faults Database (NZAFD-AF250) |
| Local authorityNames the council responsible for consents, the district plan and property records. This is context, not a risk finding — it is never treated as a concern. | Checked — data held | Stats NZ territorial authority boundaries (TA2025) |
| Zoning and planning overlaysReturns the Auckland Unitary Plan base zone containing the parcel, and checks five overlay types: Special Character, Historic Heritage, Significant Ecological Areas, Notable Trees, and Sites and Places of Significance to Mana Whenua. The base zone is context; a constraining overlay is flagged as something to resolve before going unconditional. It never tells you what you may build — that is the council’s call. | Checked — data held | Auckland Unitary Plan |
| School enrolment zonesChecks which enrolment zones the address falls inside, and lists schools within 5 km that it is outside. Schools are not a risk check — in-zone results are shown expanded, nearby out-of-zone schools collapsed. Zones change; the school is the authority on its own zone. | Checked — data held | Ministry of Education (2025) |
| Area deprivation (NZDep2023)An area-level measure for the statistical area around the address, not a measure of the property or the people in it. Around 400 of New Zealand’s 32,817 SA1 areas have no published decile; those render as unavailable rather than as a good score. | Checked — data held | University of Otago / Stats NZ 2023 Census |
| Nearby amenitiesA walkability proxy across eight daily-needs categories. OpenStreetMap is crowd-sourced, so it is uneven: a shop that exists but was never mapped will not appear, and a closed one may linger. | Checked — data held | OpenStreetMap |
| Public transport accessDistance to the nearest mapped stops. Same crowd-sourced caveat as amenities — it reflects what has been mapped, not a timetable, a service frequency, or whether a route still runs. | Checked — data held | OpenStreetMap |
| Rental market contextThe check is built, but no bond data is loaded, so no rental finding appears on any report anywhere in New Zealand today. Do not read its absence as a statement about rents. | Checked — no data for this city | MBIE / Tenancy Services rental bond data (not loaded) |
| LiquefactionPropertyKete does not check liquefaction anywhere in New Zealand. No liquefaction dataset is held and no liquefaction finding appears on any report, for any address. | Not checked anywhere | — |
| Tsunami evacuation and exposure zonesNo tsunami dataset is held and no tsunami check runs, including for coastal addresses. | Not checked anywhere | — |
| Contaminated land / HAILLand-use history and potentially contaminating past activities are not checked. Councils hold this information and a LIM is the usual way to get it. | Not checked anywhere | — |
| Easements, covenants and consent historyTitle type is shown as a property fact, but easements, covenants, interests and building or resource consent history are not assessed. These are among the most common sources of an unwelcome surprise, and none of them is in a PropertyKete report. | Not checked anywhere | — |
| Terrain, slope and wind exposure as a findingSome hazard layers use terrain internally, but there is no user-facing terrain, slope or wind finding. | Not checked anywhere | — |
Why Auckland is deeper than the rest
Auckland Council publishes its hazard and planning GIS under terms that let us ingest it. Other councils either license their layers differently or publish them in formats we have not yet worked through. It is a data-access difference, not a judgement about which city has more risk.
What the Auckland examples show
Three worked examples walk through real Auckland reports finding by finding — including two water findings that look similar and mean different things, a report with no material findings at all, and the difference between direct evidence and a broad screening layer.
Three Auckland reports, explained finding by finding
Material hazard findings, and how severity differs between them
Two water findings, and why they are not the same problem
A real PropertyKete report for a civic site in Henderson, Auckland, explained finding by finding — what a flood plain and an overland flow path each mean, why they carry different urgency, and what neither of them proves.
A clean result is evidence, not a guarantee
Every check came back clear. Here is what that is worth.
A real PropertyKete report for a civic site in New Lynn, Auckland, where every hazard check came back clear — and a careful reading of what that does and does not establish.
Material findings, screening indicators, and planning overlays
Not all evidence is the same weight
A real PropertyKete report for a community site in Titirangi, Auckland, showing why a direct parcel-level finding and a broad regional susceptibility layer are treated — and should be read — as different kinds of evidence.
Guides for reading a Auckland report
Auckland is the one city where PropertyKete holds council flood plain and overland flow path layers. These guides explain what each of those findings means for a single property, and what the nationwide fault check adds.
Absence of a finding is not absence of risk
Everything on this page is about what PropertyKete has data for, not about what is true of the ground. A report is not a LIM, a valuation, a building report, or legal or engineering advice. For anything that matters to a purchase decision, the council, a solicitor and the relevant engineer are the people who can answer it.