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Know if your SDA property will actually find a tenant — before you build it

For Australians investing in Specialist Disability Accommodation, when the only numbers you've seen so far are the ones the seller gave you.

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Property check

What the local SDA numbers say about this specific address.

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Existing SDA dwellings nearby6
Participants waiting in catchment2
VerdictCaution
  • Property A — Robust category, regional NSW6 similar dwellings already enrolled within 5km, only 2 participants waiting
    Oversupplied
  • Property B — Improved Liveability, outer metro1 similar dwelling nearby, 5 participants waiting in catchment
    Undersupplied
  • Property C — Fully Accessible, regional VICNo existing SDA dwellings within 10km, demand data inconclusive
    Needs more data

Sound familiar?

What people are putting up with today

  • An investigation found at least 760 of just 7,500 built SDA properties nationally sitting vacant — nearly 15% of all disability housing.

  • "We're still not making it. We've both had breakdowns as a result of it" — one investor's description of life after their SDA build sat empty.

  • The NDIA itself warns investors won't receive any income from an SDA dwelling if an eligible participant isn't living in it, and doesn't guarantee or back the investment.

How Catchward works

Catchward is a one-off check on a single SDA property, before you buy or build. Instead of a region-wide report covering an entire area, it looks at the one address you're actually deciding on, and tells you in plain terms whether the local numbers support another SDA dwelling there or whether you'd be adding to an area that's already oversupplied.

  1. 01

    Send us the exact address or off-the-plan listing you're considering, plus the SDA design category.

  2. 02

    We check how many similar SDA dwellings already exist in that catchment against how many eligible participants are known to be waiting there.

  3. 03

    You get a plain verdict — undersupplied, oversupplied, or inconclusive — within 48 hours, before you sign anything.

In their words

What people are saying

Real quotes from public reviews and forums, with names removed. None are about Catchward — it isn't available yet.

We're still not making it. We've both had breakdowns as a result of it.
Investor, ABC News
We were looking at retiring five years down the track … now, I can't see us retiring at all.
Investor, ABC News

Founding access

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Catchward is opening to a small group of founding members first.

  • Early access before public launch
  • A locked-in founding price
  • A direct say in what gets built

Catchward is being built now. Founding members get access first and help shape it. Applying is free and there's no obligation to buy.

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For investors

Interested in backing Catchward?

See the research behind it — the problem, market size, competition and plan — in a short investor deck.

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