ResidentialBriefPerth rental vacancy falls to 0.8 per cent
The tightest capital city rental market in the country tightens further as resources employment holds up.
Suburb Signals
Listings, stock on market, vacancy, rents, days on market, vendor discounting, auction activity and unusual movements in local market behaviour.
ResidentialBrief
Markets
Melbourne listings rise as spring selling season begins
Melbourne enters spring with the deepest pool of stock of any capital city. Agents report vendors are pricing to meet the market rather than testing it, keeping clearance rates stable even as choice widens.
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MarketsBrief
Sydney clearance rates hold above 65 per cent for a tenth week
Sydney's clearance rate of 67.4 per cent is the highest of the capitals and has now held above 65 per cent since mid-June.
Eleanor Hale/
MarketsBrief
Adelaide listings remain at record lows
Adelaide continues to record the lowest advertised stock per capita of any mainland capital.
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Markets
Brisbane house prices continue to outperform southern capitals
Interstate migration has slowed from its 2023 peak but remains net positive, and Brisbane's rental vacancy rate of 1.0 per cent continues to push renters into ownership earlier than in the southern capitals.
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ResidentialBrief
Regional Victoria values turn positive for the first time since 2023
Regional Victoria's two-year decline has ended, led by markets within commuting distance of Melbourne.
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MarketsAnalysis
Why Melbourne's property market is behaving differently to every other capital city
Melbourne has spent four years underperforming the national index. The reasons are structural rather than cyclical, and they explain why rate cuts have had less effect here than anywhere else.
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DataData
The suburbs where apartments now outperform houses
A data analysis of 1,240 suburbs identifies where the house-apartment relationship has inverted, and what those markets have in common.
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