Sydney Weekend Clearance Rate Falls Under 60%
The national figure is also at a two-year low.
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Following the Queen’s Birthday long weekend, auction number predictably surged at the weekend, with a total number of listings of 2191 compared to 992, yet, well below the same weekend last year’s 2888 auctions.
The result of a lift in volumes combined with weakening confidence in the market saw the national clearance rate report a 2-year-low of 62.7% at the weekend — well below the 67.3% reported last weekend and significantly lower than the 82.3% recorded over the same weekend last year.
Sydney’s market has fallen below 60% for the first time since the lockdown of April 2020 as a buyer’s market emerges.
The NSW capital recorded a clearance rate of 59.6%, lower than the 61.5% recorded last weekend and again significantly lower than the 80.8% recorded over the same weekend last year.
A total of 751 homes were listed in Sydney at the weekend — up on the 420 listed last weekend but well below last year’s corresponding 1036 auctions.
Sydney recorded a median price of $1,745,000 for houses sold at auction at the weekend which was again higher than the $1,650,000 recorded last weekend and 8.4% higher than the same weekend last year’s $1,610,000.
Melbourne’s auction market is proving more resilient, with a clearance rate of 62.9% holding steady when compared to the previous weekend’s 62.4% yet certainly lower than the 74.4% recorded over the same weekend last year.
A total of 134 homes were reported listed at the weekend – significantly higher than the holiday weekend’s 342 reported but well below the 1566 listed over the same weekend last year.
The Victorian capital also recorded a median price of f $1,010,000 for houses sold at auction at the weekend which was higher than the $900,000 reported last weekend and 3.2% higher than the $979,000 recorded over the same weekend last year.
Data powered by Dr Andrew Wilson, My Housing Market.
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A 110-year-old Colorado estate that has hosted Frank Sinatra and Lyndon B. Johnson just slashed $10 million off its price tag.
The 12,000-square-foot manor house—with 25 rooms—and its five accessory dwelling in the alpines of Evergreen was relisted on Friday asking $16.8 million, down from its initial $26.8 million price in 2023.
The sellers, Richard and Pamela Bard, who paid $1.3 million for the “legacy property” named Greystone Estate in 1992, have shopped it around on and off for the past 20 years, according to agent Jessica Northrop at Compass Real Estate.
Richard Bard, CEO of his own private equity firm, has “hosted many corporate events and retreats where important business is discussed but they are also able to relax,” Northrop said. “Greystone has a special way of making people feel at ease.”
Bard said “it’s not a casual effort” to sell. He said it’s difficult to find a buyer with the facilities to “take care of it.”
The Bards intend to move closer to their children in Denver.
Before the Bards, Greystone Estate had several eras—as a summer house, a guest ranch and a business base—since it was built in 1915 by Genevieve Phipps, an industrialist’s daughter.
Phipps, who spent her inheritance on the land, built the 54-acre summer escape with the “elegance and feel of a fine Adirondack mansion combined with a mountain rustic style,” according to an online record of the estate’s history.
Its heyday, arguably in the 1940s to 1980s, saw Sinatra, Johnson and Groucho Marx come through its doors, when its owner William Sandifer, a socialite and one the Empire State Building’s architects, operated a guest ranch out of the place.
The Bards, who used a carriage house on the property as their company headquarters, completed Greystone’s full modernization in 1997. They also opened up the living and dining areas to receive more light, raised the ceiling on the upper level and combined several rooms to create a primary suite.
They replaced an outdoor pavilion and its helipad with something more suitable for their daughter’s wedding in 2001, according to Northrop.
The main 25-room manor includes a wine cellar, bar, gym and library.
The additional structures, which include a cottage, a log cabin, a pool house, a carriage house and a pavilion and guest house, surround the pool area and overlook acres of aspen groves and mountains.
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