Plummeting auction clearance rate to send Melbourne house prices lower

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CoreLogic released its auction report yesterday, which reported a small rebound in the preliminary national auction clearance rate to 57.9% from 56.7% last weekend (later revised down to 53.3%).

The preliminary clearance rate was also way below the 68.3% recorded in the same weekend of last year:

Auction volumes nationally were 1,909 – way below the 2,270 recorded in the same weekend last year:

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About the author
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.