1. PropertyAssist

PropertyAssist is your single access point to South Australia's Spatial Land Information.

Currently available through this service is a wealth of South Australian Property and Land Title Information to assist you making better-informed property decisions.

Additional "themes" of information will become available in subsequent versions to provide you with even more information relating to South Australian properties.

PropertyAssist seamlessly integrates spatial land information from State Government agencies to provide you with up-to-date information from various "on-line" databases. A sample of the information obtained from a property search includes :-

• Certificate of title details;
• Property valuation details;
• Graphical view of allotment boundaries;
• Property and building details.

On-line help is available to assist users with contact details, information and glossaries.

All you need to benefit from PropertyAssist is :-

• A suitably configured browser;
• A user name and password for LSG account customers; or
• A current credit card for public customers.

PropertyAssist is being developed so users will have:

• Expanded enquiry functions available;
• Access provided to additional data and information sources;
• Extended access hours;

PropertyAssist can be accessed during the following times:
(Australian Central Standard Time)

Monday to Friday 8.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Weekends and Public Holidays 9.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. on the next business day.

Users should note that weekend and public holiday times are subject to availability of dependent databases on a "best effort" basis. Backup and support is only available Monday to Friday 8.30 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. If assistance outside of these hours is required, please use these contacts. It is anticipated that access hours for PropertyAssist will be expanded in subsequent releases.

To apply for a PropertyAssist Username & Password and/or a LSG credit account, please contact the PropertyAssist Help Desk:-

2. Partners

The PropertyAssist application is managed by the:-
Land Services Group of the Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure.

PropertyAssist access and service delivery is administered by:-
The Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure.

DTEI Web Site

3. Business Benefits

PropertyAssist offers the following features to user groups :

• Greater availability and accessibility of property information in an easy to use format;
• Comprehensive integrated property information delivered in a timely fashion with improved currency;
• Customised information to suit user requirements.

PropertyAssist delivers the above through :

• A streamlining and restructuring of workflow for greater efficiency and effectiveness, resulting from more comprehensive and appropriate information access methods;
• Efficiencies of deployment and service level management, flowing from common security and accounting across server applications under the framework;
• Increased database search functions to meet specialised information requirements.

Further benefits to the business community, anticipated by Land Services Group, to be delivered through PropertyAssist include :

• Improved data quality and consistency across datasets, resulting from a greater detection of error and mismatch through enhanced visual capabilities;
• Ease of development and integration of new server applications, which can be easily designed in accord with the existing PropertyAssist framework;
• Relative ease of incorporation of existing or package applications;
• Ease of development of client applications, utilising the information and utility services of PropertyAssist.

4. Future Directions

Based on continuous improvement, future development of PropertyAssist may include the following features for government agencies, external companies and the general public :

• Extended access to further information sources, including;
Additional LOTS system transactions;
Provision of Certificate of Title Diagrams;
DCDB Administration Themes;
Property (Valuation) Cadastre;
Survey DataBase;
Topographic Information - TOPIS;
Gazetteer - Geographical Place Names;
Ortho rectified Aerial Photography.

• Extended access hours;
• Accounting and Charging Improvements;
Online transaction processing.
• Delivery improvements;
Improved customisation for specific user group requirements, eg. plumbers, real estate agents, surveyors;
Access from externally developed client applications in other agencies or external companies, allowing integration via published interfaces, to PropertyAssist information services that maintain security and accounting;
Extensions to Whole-of-Government where individual agencies maintain responsibility for their own server applications and security policies.

• Technological improvements;
• Design improvements.

Additionally, it is intended that LSG account customers will have access to the following :

ARIES and TATS enquiries;
Incorporation of security standards and technologies allowing single sign on and authorisation across PropertyAssist and LOTS.

Further information on future directions is available from the Manager, Land Information Services, Land Services Group (refer to contact information)

Contact Details

5. Architecture

The design of PropertyAssist allows integrated enquiries across spatial, textual and image systems in a scalable system accessed from a Web browser. Legacy system integration and navigation by spatial browsing are unique features of the design. The framework is extensible to new business applications and to include additional information sources whether they be geospatial (vector or raster), databases (relational or otherwise), or existing legacy systems.

The PropertyAssist framework allows a data custodian to provide access to published services (or business objects) incorporating correct business logic rather than a direct connection to a database (raw data).

The benefits of the client application design arise from the visualisation via spatial browsing with multiple spatial themes, and from the assured links to the authoritative and most up-to-date information sources.