Sydney and Melbourne final auction clearance rates stay strong

Earlier this week, CoreLogic released its preliminary auction clearance rates, which revealed the following results:

Today, CoreLogic has released its final auction results, which reported a 5.0% decline in the final national auction clearance rate to 72.7% – well above the same weekend last year (49.4%):

As you can see, Sydney’s final auction clearance rate was 7.0% lower than the preliminary reported rate, whereas Melbourne’s was 3.5% lower. Both were well above last year’s 50.2% (Sydney) and 50.6% (Melbourne).

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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.