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Enter the job details in the Search panel above (or let Search auto-fill them from your imported register, this session's job history, or Queensland's live open data (which includes a searchable client name and address for water licences). Water allocations are a different case: no owner/holder name is published for them anywhere open, so allocation ownership always requires a formal Titles Queensland Water Allocations Register search, whichever way these fields were filled.
If this entitlement itself has a recorded sale, enter it — it becomes the reported valuation ahead of the market evidence. Otherwise the last recorded sale in the market is used, and staff can adopt a different figure on review.
JPG/PNG/WEBP or PDF — added to your valuation report exactly as supplied.
Valuation
Generate the full valuation as a PDF — a formal document suitable for attaching to a property report, or for succession/transmission-of-property purposes between family members.
Water licence & map
No licence record yet — search above to load one.
Click "Locate on map" in the search panel to see the property here.
Owner & property
| Owner / client | — |
| Property / locality | — |
| Water allocation / licence no. | — |
| Lot on plan | — |
| Water plan area | — |
Water entitlement record
Location
Tradability & trading restrictions —
Market evidence — real FY2025–26 Queensland Government data
| Scheme | Priority group | Transfers | Volume traded (ML) | Turnover | VWAP ($/ML) |
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Price comparison chart
Regional demand context
Market data & reference
Queensland water market — FY2025–26 real government data REAL
DATA
Every supplemented (scheme) water plan area with a recorded permanent transfer of a water allocation in FY2024–25, sourced directly from the Queensland Government's Permanent Water Trading Annual Report. Plans not listed recorded no permanent allocation transfers in the reporting period.
| Water plan | Scheme | Priority group | Transfers | Volume (ML) | Turnover | VWAP ($/ML) |
|---|
Statewide FY2024–25 total: 593 water-only transfers, 132,287 ML traded (4% turnover), volume-weighted average $2,639/ML. A further 170 transfers (27,649 ML) involved water traded together with land as a going concern and are not included in the water-only price statistics. A $0/ML entry reflects a nil-consideration transfer (e.g. a gift or related-party transfer) rather than an active market price.
Statewide price map
All 23 Queensland water plan areas
Reference directory — select a plan above for full detail. Status reflects whether the plan area has a codified water-allocation trading market and recorded FY2024–25 activity.
| Water plan area | Status | Water types | Locality |
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Queensland's tradability framework
Queensland separates water rights into three legal instruments with very different tradability. A water licence is generally tied to a specific parcel of land and can only be traded in a restricted way, typically requiring the transferee to own the attached land. A water permit is a short-term authority for a stated activity and cannot be transferred or renewed at all. A water allocation, by contrast, is a standalone, tradeable water right — decoupled from land ownership, registered on the state's Water Allocations Register, and dealt with (transferred, leased, subdivided, amalgamated) through a statutory dealing-rules process similar in spirit to conveyancing land.
The Water Allocations Register is administered under rules that mirror the Torrens land title system (Water Act 2000, s.173 expressly applies the Land Title Act 1994 to it): an interest in a water allocation only takes legal effect once it is registered, giving purchasers the same certainty of title they would expect when buying land (s.170(9)). Many legacy water licences are progressively converted into tradeable water allocations as individual water plans are implemented, but conversion is plan-specific, not automatic.
Short-term liquidity is provided separately through seasonal water assignments — a rights-holder temporarily assigns some or all of a year's water entitlement to another party without transferring the underlying allocation or licence. Permanent transfers/leases of a water allocation are largely administrative (chief executive must issue a certificate within 10 business days — Water Act s.157); other dealings (subdivision, amalgamation, location/priority-group change) are governed by "water allocation dealing rules" set either statewide (Water Regulation 2016, Part 5) or, more commonly, by the specific water plan's water management protocol — which is why the rules vary so much from basin to basin.
The Minister may also issue a moratorium notice for part of the state (Water Act s.30–34) to protect existing entitlements or ecosystems — this blocks new applications and works in the area but does not itself prohibit trading of existing entitlements. One such moratorium (Wet Tropics, 2010/2013) remains current. Statewide shortage/contamination powers (ss.28–29) can also temporarily limit the volume taken under any entitlement, including an allocation.
Methodology
- Point estimate: the FY2024–25 volume-weighted average price ($/ML) for the selected scheme and priority group, as published in the Queensland Government's Permanent Water Trading Annual Report — this is real, government-reported market data, not a model estimate.
- Indicative range: a band around the VWAP that widens as recorded liquidity (number of transfers, volume turnover) falls — reflecting the greater price uncertainty in a thin market. This is a statistical band, not an interquartile range of individual trades, because the published data is scheme-level aggregate rather than line-by-line transaction records.
- Confidence score: High = 30+ recorded transfers in the scheme/priority group; Medium = 10–29; Low = 1–9 (thin market); No market evidence = zero transfers recorded, or no codified trading market exists for that plan area — treat as indicative context only and obtain a full valuer assessment.
- What this tool does not do: it does not access the Water Allocations Register, confirm current ownership or search title, model multi-year price trends (only one year of scheme-level government data is currently loaded — see note below), or substitute for a full valuation, contract or legal advice.
- Data currency: FY2024–25 Permanent Water Trading Annual Report (surface water, supplemented supply), Department of Local Government, Water and Volunteers. A genuine multi-year trend would require the equivalent reports for FY2021–22 through FY2023–24 and FY2025–26, which are published by the department but were not able to be retrieved in this session — ask your analyst to source them from business.qld.gov.au/industries/mining-energy-water/water/water-markets/data-reports if a multi-year trend chart is required.