Auction clearances tank into the 50s

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CoreLogic released its auction report yesterday, which reported a small fall in the preliminary national auction clearance rate to 61.0% from 63.5% last weekend (later revised down to 62.1%).

The preliminary clearance rate was also way below the 72.8% recorded in the same weekend of last year:

Auction volumes nationally were 2,245 – below the 2,409 recorded in the same weekend last year:

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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.