We ranked every suburb so you don't have to.
TopBurb exists because Australian property investors are drowning in data tools — and starving for answers.
The problem we set out to solve
If you're an Australian property investor, you have access to an overwhelming amount of suburb data. CoreLogic. SQM Research. Microburbs. SuburbsFinder. Hotspotting. DSRdata. Every one of them shows you charts, rankings, and scores — but every one of them requires you to do the work.
You log in, search a suburb, compare it to others, try to weight the metrics, and try to remember which ones matter. You repeat this for 30 suburbs before giving up. Then you buy based on a gut feeling or an agent recommendation.
That's not how serious investment decisions should work.
What TopBurb does differently
We produce a single, comprehensive report per city, per month. Every residential suburb included. Every metric tracked. One TopBurb Score that tells you where the suburb ranks — and full transparency on the underlying data so you can verify our thinking or apply your own weightings.
You get three formats with every purchase:
- A PDF report — professionally designed, readable, portable
- A full Excel spreadsheet — every metric, filterable, sortable
- An editable Google Sheet — your own copy, apply your own criteria
We don't filter suburbs out. We don't cherry-pick the "top 10". We don't hide anything behind recommendations. You get all 304 Perth suburbs, scored and ranked, and you decide which match your criteria.
The philosophy
We provide the data. You make the decisions.
TopBurb is emphatically not a financial advisor, buyer's agent, or investment advisor. We don't tell you what to buy. We don't recommend specific suburbs for specific people. What we do is aggregate, clean, score, and present the data that actually matters — at a price that anyone serious about property investing can afford.
If we do our job right, you stop wondering "which suburb?" and start wondering "which of these suburbs fits my strategy?" That's a much better question to be answering.
Why we start with Perth
Three reasons. First, Perth is genuinely Australia's standout investor market right now — highest yields, tightest vacancy, strongest interstate demand. Second, it's underserved by existing data tools, most of which were built for Sydney and Melbourne. Third, the founder is based in Perth and can ground-truth the data in ways remote operators can't.
Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne follow in that order. By the end of 2026 we aim to have all five capitals covered with the same monthly rigour.
What you won't find here
Investment advice. Buy recommendations. "Hot tips". Spam emails. Affiliate schemes. Upsells to expensive buyer's agents or coaching programs. Partnerships with developers or marketing agencies.
TopBurb sells reports. That's the business model. Every dollar we make comes from subscribers who find our data useful. If we start compromising the data to please third parties, we stop being useful — and we go out of business.
Who we are
TopBurb is a Perth-based data company operated by a solo founder with a technical background and a long interest in Australian property markets. The data work — collection, scoring, report generation — is handled through a structured multi-agent pipeline with human oversight at every quality gate.
We're small, we're independent, and we intend to stay that way.