City of Melbourne High-Value Property Assets from 2014

City of Melbourne Open Data provides a 2014 register of council-owned land and building assets valued over $2.5 million. The dataset excludes 145 additional properties not listed. It is available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats including SHP, JSON, CSV, and GEOJSON.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial distribution of high-value assets using geographic data in SHP or GEOJSON formats.
• Assess portfolio composition by filtering for properties exceeding the $2.5 million valuation threshold.
• Support transparency and governance audits by examining the published register of council-owned assets.

Strengths

• Data is provided in four interoperable formats: SHP, JSON, CSV, and GEOJSON.
• Explicitly defines a clear valuation filter, including only assets worth over $2.5 million.
• Published under a permissive Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.

Limitations

• The dataset is incomplete, omitting 145 properties owned by the council.
• Data reflects a single snapshot from 2014 and is not current.
• Column names and specific attribute details are unknown.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data, published on the council's transparency registers webpage.

Collection Method

Official council register of high-value land and building assets.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Data is from 2014; metadata was last updated in 2026.

Geography

City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia