Guides for Bendigo home buyers

Plain answers to questions that come up when buying a house in Bendigo, with links to the public sources behind them.

• Old mine shafts and a Bendigo house: what can a buyer check?

  A building inspection cannot see underground, but it can record cracking, sloping floors and sticking doors that suggest movement. Check the address in the state Historical Mining Activity dataset, which records more than 1,000 shaft locations in each of Golden Square, Long Gully, Eaglehawk and Golden Gully, and talk to your conveyancer if both point the same way.

• Is a Bendigo house in a flood area? How to check before you buy

  Download the free property flood report from the North Central CMA Flood Eye portal, check the planning property report for the Land Subject to Inundation and Special Building overlays, and ask council whether the land is designated flood-prone. Then ask the building inspector to record any sign of past water.