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Casa Daily vs town planner site assessments

A town planner's pre-purchase site assessment runs $1,500-$3,000 in SEQ and takes 3-7 business days. For a serious bidder on a single site that's good value. For a small developer evaluating 5-15 sites a month it's prohibitive — and that's the gap Casa Daily fills.

Where it shines

Engaging a town planner for site assessments

  • Bespoke human judgment — a senior planner brings 10-30 years of council pattern recognition.
  • Direct council relationships — they know which planners assess your zone and what conditions they impose.
  • Liability insurance — a planner's written advice carries professional indemnity.
  • Deeper risk-flag analysis on complex Impact Assessable proposals.

Where it falls short for SEQ developers

  • Cost-per-site doesn't scale — at $2K/site, evaluating 10 sites/month is $24K/year of search cost.
  • Turnaround time — 3-7 days means by the time you have the report, the listing's gone.
  • Static — the report is a snapshot, not an ongoing intelligence feed.
  • Wrong tool for top-of-funnel triage — most planners would tell you Casa Daily-level intelligence belongs in the discovery phase.

Where Casa Daily fits

Casa Daily

  • Scores every fresh REA listing across SEQ overnight — instead of paying for one site at a time.
  • Surfaces the same data layer (zone, overlays, DA history, comparable approvals) the planner would research first.
  • Lets you triage 10-50 sites a week to find the 1-2 worth a planner's time.
  • Doesn't replace the planner on the deal that matters — gets you to that deal faster.

Pricing

$500 / mo · or $4,800 / yr (save 20%) · cancel any time

Use engaging a town planner for site assessments when…

You're under contract or close to offering on a single site. Pay for the bespoke planner assessment — it's cheap insurance against a $50K+ mistake.

Use Casa Daily when…

You're at the discovery stage and need to triage many sites quickly. Use Casa Daily to find the genuine candidates, then engage the planner on the one or two worth their fee.

Try Casa Daily on your own SEQ patch — first brief tomorrow morning.

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