Residential Real Estate News

Auction activity is expected to remain relatively steady week-on-week across the combined capital cities, with only 26 fewer homes set for auction over the week. There are 2,879 auctions scheduled to take place this week, while last week 2,905 auctions were held.

Australia’s regional housing market has far outpaced value growth across Australia’s capital cities in the last 12 months, rising 13.0% compared with a 6.4% gain in capital city values.

Auction volumes were down slightly week-on-week with 2,892 homes taken to auction across the combined capital cities this week. Preliminary results show that of the 2,454 results collected so far, 79.0 per cent were successful. In comparison, the previous week saw 3,016 homes taken to auction, returning a...

CoreLogic’s national measure of residential construction costs rose by 0.8% over the three months to March 2021, making it the sixth consecutive quarter where costs have risen by 1.0% or less.

There are 2,934 capital city homes set to go to auction this week, down only slightly on last week’s 3,016 auctions held, which happened to be the second busiest week for auctions of the year. It is expected that this week will be the third busiest week of 2021.

Housing affordability is becoming an increasing concern for first home buyers and policy makers amid recent, rapid price increases in housing values. But the double-edged sword of reducing housing values to make them more affordable, is that housing also makes up the majority of Australian household wealth;...

Housing affordability is becoming an increasingly pressing concern through 2021, as dwelling values continue to rise, and first home buyer activity has started to decline. With such rapid increases, just how much of the housing market is still attainable for buyers?

Auction volumes increased week-on-week with 3,033 homes taken to auction across the combined capital cities this week, the second busiest week for auctions this year.

CoreLogic today announced its estimate of the total value of residential real estate in Australia has reached $8.1 trillion.

This week we are expecting the second busiest week for auctions of 2021 with 3,087 capital city homes set to go under the hammer over the week. This week’s scheduled volumes are up by 6.4% on last week’s 2,902 auctions held and significantly higher than volumes from one year ago throughout the COVID lockdown...

At todays’ meeting, the RBA maintained the official cash rate target at 0.1%. The decision comes off the back of subdued inflation figures for the March 2021 quarter.

There were 2,876 homes taken to auction across the combined capital cities this week, and of the 2,425 results collected so far, 80.4 per cent reported a successful result. In comparison, the previous week saw 2,087 homes taken to auction and a preliminary auction clearance rate of 78.5 per cent was recorded,...

Australian housing values lifted by 1.8% in April according to CoreLogic’s national home value index, with the monthly pace of capital gains easing from a 32-year high in March (2.8%).