Property Guru — Cotality's Property Data Platform (formerly CoreLogic)

The Facts

Property Guru is the subscription platform for NZ property data run by Cotality (formerly CoreLogic, which rebranded globally in March 2025), used widely by real estate agents, valuers, mortgage brokers and developers. It carries the complete record of NZ property sales (including off-market and undisclosed sale prices), title and ownership history, rating valuations, comparable sales analysis tools, suburb and street profiles, and aerial imagery. Subscriptions start at approximately NZ$200/month for the standard product, with higher tiers for valuers and large agencies. The platform is the standard for comparable sales analysis, vendor advisory work, and feasibility benchmarking.

A Developer's Take

$200-400/month subscription. The standard tool for NZ property sales data, used by every agent, valuer, broker, and active developer. One of the most powerful property tools there is, but it comes at a cost.

Where it earns its money: comparable sales analysis. Cotality has the complete record of NZ property sales including off-market and undisclosed prices. For any valuation work or vendor advisory work, the comparables you can pull from Cotality are the same dataset every other professional in the deal is using.

The other useful feature: ownership history. Lets you see how long the current owners have held the property, what they paid, what the LVR likely is. Useful intel for assessing whether they are motivated sellers and how much room they have on price.

Limits to know: Cotality data on smaller transactions (sub-$500k regional sales) can be patchy because some agencies do not lodge promptly. The data on large commercial transactions is excellent.

If you are doing 1-2 deals a year, the subscription is hard to justify. Most people in that bucket either ask an agent friend to pull comparables or use the limited free version. If you are doing 5+ deals a year or vendor advisory work, the subscription pays back on the first deal.

Worth knowing: the free QV.co.nz portal covers the basic last-sale-price data for any address. For quick checks, QV is fine. For professional analysis work, Cotality is the standard. I would put this tool as an aspirational tool rather than a must-have. If you are working with an agent, ask them to do a search on your behalf and share the information with you; if they do not have access I would be wary of them as your agent. This is a professional tool for professional people.

When to use this

Property Guru pays for itself the first time it surfaces an off-market or undisclosed sale price that QV does not have. Reach for it when you need to build a defensible comp set — pre-purchase feasibility, vendor advisory, or backing up a valuation argument with a lender. The subscription is overkill for a single deal but the standard tool for any operator analysing more than a few sites a year. Pair it with QV for double-checking and MBIE bond data for rent assumptions.