Sydney rental vacancies to hit 4% by year’s end

Tuesday 17 September 2019

SQM Researchhas released its rental vacancy series for August, which revealed a small decrease in the national vacancy rate to 2.2% from 2.3% last month; although it was up 0.1% over the year:

Over the year, decreases in vacancies were recorded in Brisbane (-0.3%), Perth (-0.8%), Adelaide (-0.2%), and Darwin (-0.6%), whereas increases were recorded across Sydney (+0.6%), Melbourne (+0.4%) and Canberra (+0.5%), and Hobart (+0.1%).

As shown in the next chart, Sydney’s rental vacancy rate is running at its highest level on record in trend terms (i.e. since 2005):

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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.