National Auction Market Officially Kicks Off
Major capitals slow off the mark in two-speed market.
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The 2022 home auction year has officially commenced.
While the weekend saw mostly positive results for early-season sellers the two-speed national market is intensifying.
Adelaide, Canberra and Brisbane’s markets have carried its momentum from the latter stages of 2021 into the new year with strong clearance rates this weekend reporting 88.4%, 74.0% and 86.1% respectively.
Elsewhere, the major markets of Sydney and Melbourne are stuttering, reporting lower clearance rates when compared to the same weekend last year at 65.8% and 68.5% respectively.
The national auction market reported a clearance rate of 76.6% at the weekend which was similar to the 76.0% reported over the final auction weekend of 2021 but lower than 77.7% recorded over the same weekend last year.
The number of listings that went to auction over the weekend was 836, higher than the 690 auctioned over the same opening weekend last year.
Sydney’s aforementioned clearance rate of 65.8% is well down on the 81.1% recorded over the same opening weekend last year.
Despite surrounding covid concerns and distractions, a season-opening record 318 homes were listed for auction at the weekend — up on the 138 auctioned over the same opening weekend last year.
The NSW capital recorded a median price of $1,380,000 for houses sold at auction at the weekend which was lower than the $1,580,000 reported over the final auction Saturday of 2021 but 10.8% higher than the $1,246,000 recorded over the same weekend last year.
Melbourne’s clearance rate of 68.5% was also down on the 84.0% recorded over the same weekend last year.
A total of 250 homes were reported listed for auction at the weekend – lower than the 308 reported over the same weekend last year.
The Victorian capital recorded a median price of $873,000 for houses sold at auction at the weekend which was lower than the last weekend in December’s $1,000,000 and 4.3% lower than the $912,500 recorded over the same weekend last year.
Data powered by Dr Andrew Wilson, My Housing Market.
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Capital cities lead the way as median home values see clear upswing
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Home values continue their upwards trajectory, recording the strongest monthly growth in 18 months, CoreLogic data shows.
The property data provider reports that their Home Value Index has noted a third consecutive rise in values in May, accelerating 1.2 percent over the past month. This is on the back of a 0.6 percent increase in March and 0.5 percent rise in April.
Sydney recorded the strongest results, up 1.8 percent, the highest recorded in the city since September 2021. The fall in Sydney’s home values bottomed in January but have since accelerated sharply by 4.8 percent, adding $48,390 to the median dwelling value.
Melbourne recorded more modest gains, with home values increasing by 0.9 percent, bringing the total rise this quarter to 1.6 percent. It was the smaller capitals of Brisbane (up 1.4 percent) and Perth (up 1.3 percent) that reported stronger gains.
CoreLogic research director Tim Lawless said the lack of housing stock was an obvious influence on the growing values.
“Advertised listings trended lower through May with roughly 1,800 fewer capital city homes advertised for sale relative to the end of April. Inventory levels are -15.3 percent lower than they were at the same time last year and -24.4 percent below the previous five-year average for this time of year,” he said.
“With such a short supply of available housing stock, buyers are becoming more competitive and there’s an element of FOMO creeping into the market.
“Amid increased competition, auction clearance rates have trended higher, holding at 70 percent or above over the past three weeks. For private treaty sales, homes are selling faster and with less vendor discounting.”
Vendor discounting has been a feature in some parts of the country, particularly prestige regional areas that saw rapid price rises during the pandemic – and subsequent falls as people returned to the workplace in major centres.
The CoreLogic Home Value Index reports while prices appear to have found the floor in regional areas, the pace of recovery has been slower.
“Although regional home values are trending higher, the rate of gain hasn’t kept pace with the capitals. Over the past three months, growth in the combined capitals index was more than triple the pace of growth seen across the combined regionals at 2.8% and 0.8% respectively,” Mr Lawless said.
“Although advertised housing supply remains tight across regional Australia, demand from net overseas migration is less substantial. ABS data points to around 15% of Australia’s net overseas migration being centred in the regions each year. Additionally, a slowdown in internal migration rates across the regions has helped to ease the demand side pressures on housing.”
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