Sydney auction clearance rate plunges into 40s
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CoreLogic released its auction report yesterday, which reported a further fall in the preliminary national auction clearance rate to 57.6% from 59.7% last weekend (later revised down to 56.2%).
The preliminary clearance rate was also way below the 69.8% recorded in the same weekend of last year, with a sharp downward trend evident:

Auction volumes nationally were 2,272 – below the 2,578 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.