The questions we hear most often.

Fair question. Vallotta is a New South Wales company (Vallotta Pty Ltd, ACN 698 088 050) and we publish our trading details, our privacy policy, and the data sources we use openly. The free report is based on public NSW planning data — you can verify the underlying figures against the NSW Planning Portal yourself.

If we ever ask you to pay before any value has been delivered, ignore the email. We don’t operate that way.

Because we’re the buyer, not a broker. We only make an offer on a lot that genuinely stacks up under the reforms, so the free report is how we find those lots — and how you find out where you stand, at no cost and no obligation.

If your land doesn’t unlock anything, the report says so on the first page and we both move on. There’s no upside for us in dressing up a lot that doesn’t work — which is exactly why you can trust what the free report tells you.

No. We do not hold a real estate licence, we do not list properties, we do not run open homes, and we do not charge a sales commission. We read the planning data, write you a plain-English report, and — if your lot stacks up — offer to buy it ourselves.

Any sale that follows is a private contract between you and Vallotta, with your own lawyer reviewing the deed before you sign.

No. Looking up your address tells you what your land is. It doesn’t sign you up to anything and it doesn’t start a sales process. If you want to go further, you ask us — not the other way around.

We don’t sell your details. We don’t share them for advertising. The privacy policy spells out exactly who sees your data and why.

It’s the name we give to selling an eligible home at the land value the NSW Low and Mid Rise Housing reforms created, without developing it, listing it, or moving out. You’re paid a non-refundable premium up front and grant a call-option deed: Vallotta gains the right, not the obligation, to buy at a fixed price on a fixed future date.

On most eligible streets it’s the only path that pays the homeowner for the reform uplift rather than letting it fall to whoever buys the land. The full explainer lives on our Uplift Sale page; in short, it’s a normal sale’s certainty without the listing, the commission, or the build.

A contract between you and Vallotta. We pay you a non-refundable premium today. In return, we have the right — not the obligation — to buy your home at a fixed price on a fixed future date. You set the window with us; it can run from as little as three months out to twelve, and the terms are open to discussion.

You don’t list. You don’t move out. You stay where you are until the option date. On that date, Vallotta either exercises the option and you sell at the price you agreed, or we walk away and you keep the premium. Either way, you knew exactly what you were signing.

A call-option deed is binding once signed, the same as any contract for sale. That’s the point — it gives us the certainty we need to pay the premium up front. Your protection sits earlier in the process: don’t sign anything you don’t understand.

We strongly recommend you have your own solicitor or conveyancer review the deed before you sign. Vallotta covers your legal costs as part of the deal, so getting independent advice should cost you nothing.

Vallotta pays an agreed contribution to your legal costs. That figure is negotiated and stated in writing. It’s one of the items the site investigation covers before any deed is drafted.

The free report can tell you what your land is allowed to become and what the surrounding market is doing. It can’t tell you what your specific site is worth, because that depends on yield, consolidation potential, services, and what the reforms unlock on your block in particular.

That question is what the paid site investigation is for. We assess your title in detail, work out what we can offer for it, and walk you through what a deal would look like.

No. Nothing in the Vallotta process is binding until you sign a call-option deed in front of your own lawyer. You can read the report and forget about it. You can do the site investigation and turn down our offer. You can take the report to your own planner instead. Every step is optional.

Some are. Many aren’t — partly because the reform is a relatively new state policy, partly because the rules are buried in council DCPs and state SEPPs, and partly because the conventional agent business model is built around listings, not call-option deeds.

We don’t hold this against agents. But it does mean a lot of homeowners are sitting on land they don’t realise has been re-rated, and we think that’s worth fixing.

The full answer is on our privacy page. Short version: your email and report are kept in an Australia-region database, the narrative section of the report is generated by Anthropic’s Claude language model (no email or IP sent), and we never sell, share, or trade your personal information for any third party’s marketing. You can ask for your data to be deleted at any time.

Yes. The report covers your zone, your permitted uses under the council LEP, your building envelope, sale history and neighbourhood comparable sales, heritage and bushfire status, and any other regulatory matters specific to your lot. It’s still a useful baseline document to keep — particularly if you’re considering a renovation, an extension, or simply selling at some point.

If your land isn’t LMR-eligible, the report tells you exactly that, on the first page, and we won’t be making an offer — no follow-up, no sales call.