About LocalMarketSpot
Why we're doing this, and how we keep it accurate.
We started with a straightforward problem: search for a local market in Australia and you will mostly find a council PDF from a few years ago, a Facebook event nobody updated, or a directory that lists a market without saying whether it is actually still running. So we are building a directory of real, verified markets across Australia, and being upfront about what stage that is at.
We have compiled structured data (address, trading hours, market type) on more than 800 markets across all eight states and territories. Those get published in reviewed batches rather than all at once. More than 700 are live today, with the rest held back until a current source confirms them.
How a listing gets verified
Every listing starts from a real address and, where available, structured trading hours, not a guess.
A person checks each listing, and corrects it again when its organiser claims it.
Organisers can claim their own listing and correct it directly. The most reliable source is always the market itself.
Where a market has closed for good, the listing comes down. A page for a market that no longer exists is worse than no page.
Every claim on a listing has to trace to a source: the market's own pages, the council, a tourism body or local news. The full process is on the How we verify listings page, linked in the footer.
What we don't do
We don't present star ratings as our own. Where you see a rating on a listing, it is attributed to Google and linked back to the source, not shown as a review we collected. We would rather show fewer markets correctly than pad the count with anything we can't stand behind.
Run a market and found something wrong, or missing entirely? Claiming or submitting a listing is free, and it is the fastest way to get it fixed. Start on the Submit a market page, or see Corrections and removals in the footer.