New year’s auction clearances still soft

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CoreLogic released its auction report yesterday, which reported a stable preliminary national auction clearance rate at 67.7% – exactly the same as last weekend but significantly below the 73.2% in the same weekend last year:

However, as you can see above, the trend clearance rate has bounced.

Auction volumes nationally were at at 1,464 – also below the 1,591 recorded in the same weekend last year:

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As shown above, clearances in Sydney (-12.0%), Melbourne (-3.4%), Brisbane (-0.7%), and Canberra (-13.8%) were below the same weekend last year, whereas they are higher in Adelaide (+2.2%), Perth (+4.0%), and Tasmania (+12.5%).

The below tables show the breakdown by houses and units:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.