Research
The advice is only as good as the count underneath it.
What the data layer is, how the method works, and every issue of the report.
A measurement layer, not a marketing exercise.
Underneath the agency sits a measurement system that ingests every settled commercial dealing the NSW Valuer General publishes for the Hunter — every price band, not just the headline deals — and turns it into quarterly, deal-level market measures. It counts and measures; it does not score, rank or recommend. The agency’s advice starts from what it counts.
Source: NSW Valuer General settled transactions, deal-level, corrected.
Methodology, in plain English
Settled records, counted once, with the thin cells marked.
Every figure derives from settled transactions in the NSW Valuer General’s record — contracts that completed, not asking prices.
The source records every parcel of a multi-parcel dealing separately, repeating the full price on each. We collapse to the dealing before any total, so one transaction counts once.
Any median resting on fewer than 5 dealings publishes as n<5 — marked, never estimated, in every table, chart and card.
Quarters are by contract date; the source publishes on notification, so recent quarters accrue late-notified dealings and revise upward. Vacant/improved classification is source-flag basis only.
The correction
Parcel-sum figures overstate this market — we publish both series so the correction is visible.
Summing parcel rows makes one dealing that sells five parcels for $X read as $5X. Over the full window since 2021, that overstates the Hunter’s $1.5M+ market by 54% at deal level. The chart shows both series, quarter by quarter — the gap is the correction.
Source: NSW Valuer General settled transactions, deal-level, corrected.
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The 2025Q4 Hunter Commercial Market Report is the research base behind every mandate: the quarter in five numbers, the parcel-sum correction, volume and price by LGA since 2021, and every thin cell marked n<5 rather than estimated.
Source: NSW Valuer General settled transactions, deal-level, corrected.