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Melbourne Property Newsthe records, as at

A guide published by Dotto · Victoria

Melbourne property, read from the records

Melbourne Property News is a guide to the official records behind Melbourne property, written and published by Dotto. It carries no news. Each record it reads is fixed at a moment, and each figure here wears its date.

Every figure dated

  1. Victorian Property Sales ReportReleased Sep 2026

    Valuer-General Victoria · March quarter 2026

  2. Register search statementAs at the search

    Folio

  3. Planning property reportMaps updated weekly

    Zone code

  4. Rates and valuation noticeAs at 1 Jan 2026

    Capital improved value

  5. Land tax assessmentMidnight 31 Dec

    Taxable land held at midnight, 31 December

Drawn for this guide: the five records it reads, each stamped with the moment it is fixed. Not real documents.

Valuer-General Victoria valued the state’s 3.48 million rateable and leviable properties at $3.41 trillion as at 1 January 2026.

That sentence is only true with its date attached, because the valuation is made again every year (it has been annual since 2019). The same is true of each record this guide reads, so it never prints a figure without the moment it describes.

The records’ year

Read in calendar order, Victoria’s property records fall on a small number of fixed moments. Two of them sit on the turn of the year itself.

  1. Midnight, 31 December

    Land tax for the coming year is worked out from the site values of all the taxable land a person owned at that moment.

  2. 1 January

    Every rateable property in Victoria is revalued with this as its valuation date, and the valuation reflects the property’s fair market value on that day.

  3. January to June

    The State Revenue Office generally issues land tax assessments in these months.

  4. Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec

    The Valuer-General releases the Victorian Property Sales Report each quarter. The report for the March quarter of 2026 came out in September 2026, so the newest quarterly figures describe sales from months before.

  5. July to September

    Councils typically send rate and valuation notices in these months, and the valuation printed on them is the one made as at 1 January that year.

  6. Every week

    The zone and overlay maps behind a planning property report are refreshed weekly.

  7. The moment you search

    A title search shows what the Register of land holds at the time the search is made, and nothing later.

The five guides

  1. March quarter 2026 · released September 2026Reading the Valuer-General’s sales figuresThe quarterly sales report, the annual guide and the 2026 revaluation, and the date each one describes.
  2. As at the moment of searchSearching a Victorian land titleThe Register of land, what a search statement holds, the plans behind a title and the limits of its boundaries.
  3. Zone maps updated weeklyReading a planning property reportZones, overlays, parcels and properties, as VicPlan maps them in the week you look.
  4. Valuation as at 1 January 2026Your rates notice and the valuation behind itHow a 1 January valuation becomes a council bill, what the rate cap covers, and how an objection is made.
  5. Owner as at midnight, 31 DecemberLand tax and the midnight countWho pays Victorian land tax, the rates from the 2024 land tax year, and what is left out.

Who keeps each record

Valuer-General Victoria
The quarterly and annual sales statistics, and the yearly valuation of every rateable property, which it has made for all 79 councils since the 2023 general valuation.
Land Use Victoria
The Register of land, the official record of who owns land in Victoria, and the plans and surveys behind each title.
Department of Transport and Planning
VicPlan, the state’s map of planning zones and overlays, and the planning property report drawn from it.
Your council and the State Revenue Office
Councils set and collect rates using the Valuer-General’s valuations; the State Revenue Office uses the same valuations for land tax and the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund levy.

Where Melbourne sits in a state record

None of these records stops at the edge of Melbourne: each one covers the whole of Victoria. Two of them draw the line for you. The quarterly sales report gives an overall Melbourne metropolitan median beside a country Victoria median for each type of property, and the Valuer-General’s 2026 revaluation summary counts properties by land use for metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria separately.

The others work property by property: a title, a planning property report, a rates notice and a land tax assessment are each about one piece of land, wherever it is in the state.

What you will not find here

No events, no forecasts and no view on what any home is worth. Where a record describes the market, such as the Valuer-General’s suburb medians, the guides explain where the figure comes from and which date it describes, and leave the figure with the agency that publishes it. Read in that spirit, the Valuer-General’s sales data page and the 2026 revaluation outcomes are the places to start.