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Each month there's talk of whether or not the Australian property market has peaked, yet each month the growth continues nationwide. Record low interest rates have been labelled as one of the biggest...
By Andy Webb
2020 was a wrecking ball of a year for much of the Australian property market, but the comeback over the past six months has been astonishing. As a result of this year's resurgence, property analytics...
By Andy Webb
When the market is hot, it seems like it's a seller's paradise. Buyers are snapping up properties quicker than new stock can be listed, competition is fierce and prices are on the up. Things...
By Andy Webb
Property prices continue to gallop ahead all over Australia, and the ongoing pace poses a number of important questions. Is this rate of growth sustainable? Where can market participants still capitalise...
By Andy Webb
The Queensland property upswing continued to gather pace in May, with price growth accelerating strongly. According to the latest data, Brisbane houses are driving values up as buyers compete over a declining...
By Emily Ng
Melbourne and Victoria have had a run of hard luck this past year—even just this past fortnight—but there are positives popping up in the housing market that are worth taking a look at. CoreLogic's...
By Andy Webb
Traditionally the onset of winter means the property market takes a bit of a breather, but as CoreLogic's figures for May suggest that's very much not the case this year. After easing to a small...
By Andy Webb
Property prices across Australia rose in value by +2.2 per cent in May according to CoreLogic's latest national home value index. That's a notable acceleration from April's increase of +1.8 per cent,...
By Andy Webb
Tales of Australians making tree and sea changes or flocking from capital cities to regional areas over the past year have been plentiful, and it's a narrative that seems to be well supported by data. CoreLogic's...
By Andy Webb
This year, the conversation around Australia's property market boom has been dominated by talk of house prices. There's an overarching narrative that the pandemic has pushed homeowners to abandon...
By Andy Webb
The meteoric rise of Australia's property market in 2021 has been talked about all over the country, but the story is a little different in Victoria. The extended lockdowns last year set the state's...
By Andy Webb
Australia's largest capital cities will likely always get the lion's share of media attention when it comes to the property market. But since Covid has come along and disrupted the way people live...
By Andy Webb
After a blazing first quarter of 2021, the rate of property price growth around Australia eased slightly in April. Things didn't cool off all that much in NSW, though, with median dwelling values in Sydney...
By Andy Webb
Every month, Independent property valuation firm Herron Todd White (HTW) releases a new residential property report which drills down into the market performance of cities around Australia. Leading...
By Andy Webb
There aren't many spots around Australia where you could expect property prices haven't had a healthy bump over the past five years. You also might not expect, though, that it would be possible to...
By Andy Webb
March saw the Australian property market post an explosive +2.8 per cent growth nationwide, the largest monthly jump in more than 30 years. Expectations were that the historic boom wouldn't be repeated...
By Andy Webb
It was expected that the property market surge around the country over the first quarter of 2021 would have to slow down, and in April it has to some degree. A much-needed boost of new stock being...
By Andy Webb
After a scorching first quarter of the year for property prices around Australia, and especially in Sydney and regional NSW, the market has simmered down slightly through April. The 2021 boom has...
By Andy Webb
According to CoreLogic’s national home value index, Australian median dwelling prices rose +1.8 per cent in April, an easing from March’s historic growth rate of +2.8 per cent. The months-long...
By Andy Webb
So far in 2021 we’ve seen Australia’s property market reach frenzied new heights, with median price records tumbling in many areas and March delivering the highest rate of national growth since...
By Andy Webb
Back in May 2020, many major banks and leading economists were predicting steep declines of anywhere between -10 and -32 per cent in Australia’s property market as a result of the unfolding pandemic. Nearly...
By Andy Webb