Who this article is for
Lot owners
Buyers and buyer’s agents
Committee members
Conveyancers and advisors
Anyone using Cohabit to understand a specific building
What a Building Profile is
A Building Profile is the central place in Cohabit where everything about a building lives.
It brings together:
Building-level information and context
Building Health Scores
Expert Insights
Insurance benchmarking and comparisons
Supporting strata records
Ongoing updates where available
If you want to understand what’s happening in a building, this is where you go.
Every user on Cohabit views the same Building Profile for a building.
What changes is the depth of information and actions available, depending on whether expert insights exist and whether you’re connected as an owner.
How you access a Building Profile
You can open a Building Profile in a few ways:
From Research
Search for a building to review its health score, snapshot, and insights.From Apartments (owners only)
Selecting an apartment you own opens the same Building Profile, with additional owner-only context.
No matter how you arrive, you’re always looking at the same underlying Building Profile.
What you’ll see inside a Building Profile
While the layout may evolve, Building Profiles generally include the following areas.
Overview
The Overview is your starting point.
It provides:
Basic building details (address, size, features)
The Building Health Score (if available)
A high-level summary of building performance
Entry points into deeper building information
For owners, this is also where connected apartments are visible.
Building Snapshot
The Building Snapshot gives you a structured view of how the building is tracking across key areas, such as:
Financial position
Insurance and risk signals
Compliance indicators
Works, maintenance, and defects
Liveability and sustainability signals
This view is designed to help you quickly identify strengths, risks, and areas that may need attention — without reading raw strata documents.
Some insurance-related actions are available only to connected owners.
Expert Insights
If Expert Insights have been requested and completed for the building, you’ll see an Expert Insights section.
This is where Cohabit experts:
Review strata records on your behalf
Identify key risks, issues, and patterns
Explain what the records actually mean, in plain English
Expert Insights are grouped by topic (for example: financials, meetings, works, compliance).
Within each insight, you can see:
A clear written summary
The expert’s observations
The related strata records used to support that insight
This experience is designed to replace the traditional strata report, making it faster and easier to understand what matters.
If no Expert Insights have been completed yet, you will instead see an option to request them.
My Apartments (owners only)
Owners who have connected an apartment will also see a My Apartments tab within the Building Profile.
This allows owners to:
View their connected apartment(s)
Edit their own apartment details (such as occupancy status)
This tab does not change building-level information — it only applies to the owner’s specific lot.
Where the information comes from
Building Profiles are powered by:
Strata records Cohabit has been authorised to inspect
Expert Insights (once requested and finalised)
Health Score modelling
Insurance benchmarking across similar buildings
Owner-provided apartment details (where relevant)
Cohabit only shows information it can support with verified data.
Why some information may not be visible
If parts of a Building Profile look limited or empty, it’s usually because:
Expert Insights haven’t been requested or completed yet
Cohabit hasn’t been authorised to access certain records
The building hasn’t been reviewed recently
You’re viewing owner-only features as a non-owner
As insights are completed and records are reviewed, the Building Profile becomes richer over time.
In summary
The Building Profile is the foundation of Cohabit.
It’s where:
Building Health Scores and Expert Insights replace traditional strata reports
Insurance, financials, compliance, and risks are brought together
All users view the same building through a shared, consistent lens
Everything else in Cohabit builds on top of it.