Sydney becomes both a “buyer’s and renter’s” market

Tuesday 17 July 2018

SQM Research has released its rental vacancy series for June, which revealed a 0.2% lift in the national vacancy rate over the month but a 0.2% decline over the year:

Over the year, decreases in vacancies were recorded in Adelaide (-0.3%), Perth (-1.3%), Brisbane (-0.6%) and Canberra (-0.3%), whereas increases were recorded in Sydney (+0.8%) and Darwin (+0.2%), and Melbourne’s and Hobart’s vacancy rates were flat.

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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.