Auction Clearance Rates Rise By 6.6 Percentage Points Over March Quarter

CoreLogic
Auction Clearance Rates Rise By 6.6 Percentage Points Over March Quarter

Around half of all homes up for auction across Australia’s capital cities sold during the first quarter of 2019, with the latest CoreLogic Quarterly Auction Market Review showing a clearance rate of 49.9 per cent across the combined capitals. This is an increase of +6.6 percentage points on the December quarter results.

While clearance rates for the March quarter are on the up, they pale in comparison to the same quarter last year, when 64.6 per cent of properties across the combined capitals sold at auction.

“Auction volumes and clearance rates are mirroring the broader slowdown in property transaction and housing market conditions. Auction clearance rates over the March 2019 quarter were 14.7 percentage points lower than they were over the March 2018 quarter,” says Cameron Kusher at CoreLogic.

Across the combined capitals, 14,647 residential auctions were scheduled in the March 2019 quarter compared to 25,894 in the December 2018 quarter and 20,701 over the March quarter a year ago. “Vendors are less confident of achieving a positive result at auction, and this has further impacted auction volumes during what is traditionally a quiet start to the year.”

Sydney posted the largest improvement in auction clearance rates relative to the December quarter last year

The CoreLogic Quarterly Auction Market Review found that quarterly clearance rates increased across all capital cities except for Hobart (-5.2 percentage points) and Canberra (-1.6 percentage points). Canberra reported the most significant drop year on year, with clearance rates falling by -22.6 percentage points to 45.6 per cent in the March 2019 quarter.

Sydney vendors achieved the highest quarterly clearance rates with 53.2 per cent of the 5,278 properties for auction selling in the three months to March. This was +10.1 percentage point increase relative to the December quarter, but -10.4 percentage points lower than 12 months ago.

Melbourne remained Australia’s busiest capital city market over the March quarter, with 6,375 auctions scheduled (51.8 per cent clearance rate), down from 12,372 in the last quarter and 9,488 a year ago. Tasmania had the fewest auctions scheduled with 45 properties for sale, however it was the only capital city to report an increase in auction volumes over the past quarter.

 

Source: https://www.corelogic.com.au/news/auction-clearance-rates-rise-66-percentage-points-over-march-quarter

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